Blocks of Flats (1960)
A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings, symbolizing the obsolete past, alternate with shots of construction sites for new prefabricated apartment buildings. In spite of certain unavoidable propagandistic overtones added by the director, it is notable as the beginning of his search for a “dramaturgy of colors.”
Director:
Jiří Menzel
Writers:
Jiří Menzel, Jan Svoboda.
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Alexandr Postler as Narrator (voice) |
| Directing | Jiří Menzel | Director |
| Editing | Ljuljana Lorencová | Editor |
| Camera | Jaromír Šofr | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Jiří Menzel | Screenplay |
| Production | Artur Stacha | Production Manager |
| Writing | Jan Svoboda | Screenplay |
| Sound | Milan Iglo | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Oldřich Tichý | Sound |