BLACK PETER

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Director - Miloš Forman

Script - Miloš Forman

Camera - Jan Němeček

Music - Jiří Šlitr

Cast - Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martínková-Novotná, Jan Vostrčil, Vladimír Pucholt, Pavel Sedláček, Zdeněk Kulhánek, František Kosina

Producer - Rudolf Hájek

Production - Filmové Studio Barrandov

In this first real example of the blooming Czechoslovak New Wave, Forman takes cues from contemporary French giants Truffaut and Godard and emerges with his own fascinating style. Filmed in a documentary like fashion, the voyeuristic camera buzzes around the characters, all played by non-professional actors. Aside from the loose premise that follows young Peter, who is starting work for the first time, while also awkwardly courting the beautiful Asa, there is no real story or purpose here. The film is simply a free flowing slice of life, with partially improvised scenes which all play out authentically and naturally, punctuated with brilliant moments of humor that heighten the youthful and energetic tone.

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19.03.2018
CZECH CENTER - 18.30 часа

Miloš Forman

Miloš Forman is born on 18 February 1932 in Čáslav, Czechoslovakia. His parents died in Auschwitz. He studied direction at the School of Cinema in Prague. In his Czechoslovakian films, Black Peter (winner of the Grand Priz in Locarno), A Blonde in Love, and The Firemen's Ball (both nominated for a foreign language film “Oscar”), he created his own style of comedy. During the invasion of his country by the troops of the Warsaw pact in the summer of 1968 to stop the Prague spring, he left Europe for the United States. He achieved fame with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which won five Oscars including one for direction. Other important films of Milos Forman are the musical Hair and Amadeus, which won eight Oscars.

FILMOGRAPHY

1963 Audition (Konkurs)
1964 Black Peter (Černý Petr)
1966 A Blonde in Love (Lásky jedné plavovlásky)
1968 The Firemen's Ball (Hoří, má panenko)
1971 Taking Off
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1979 Hair
1981 Ragtime
1984 Amadeus
1989 Valmont
1996 The People vs. Larry Flynt
1999 Man on the Moon
2007 Goya's Ghosts

BLACK PETER / ČERNÝ PETR

Czechoslovakia, 1964, 85′, black and white

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Miloš Forman