Vojtěch, Called Orphan

Czech films that have been somewhat forgotten

director Zdenek Tyc, Czechoslovakia 1989, 80 min.

A black-and-white ballad film, which was the debut of three talented FAMU students: director Zdeněk Tyc, dramaturg and screenwriter Jiří Soukup and cinematographer Jaromír Kačer. The dramaturge Ivan Arsenjev was an important figure who intervened in the creation of the original school project. The film expressed a desire to return to the artistic and moral imperatives of the Czechoslovak New Wave, while at the same time convincingly presenting the potential of a new generation that had not exactly had an open door to success in the previous, censored system of socialist cinema. The four authors returned to the poetics of the 1960s in a deeply intimate way. Their narratives celebrate a natural, individual rebellion against the established order. Petr Forman plays the character of a provocatively free-spirited loner in this visually captivating film set in 1946.
Introduction by film critic Jan Lukeš

Last year we finished our dramaturgical profiles of Czech and Slovak directors, mostly associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave. Here comes a new series, focusing on films from the late 1980s and early 1990s, when many quality films were made but unjustifiably disappeared due to social and political events.

In original version only.