Jan Werich stands upon Ken Adam’s impressive space-age set, a fluffy white Persian cat with piercing blue eyes cradled in his arms. His co-star Sean Connery has stalked, somewhat like a bored panther, off the Pinewood sound stage as soon as the director called cut and now, the figures who […]
Vojtech Jasny
Desire (1958)/All My Good Countrymen (1968); Two Films by Vojtěch Jasný (Review)
All My Good Countrymen (1968) Even a dictatorship can’t keep a lid on this (Review)
A rural, bawdy, political epic with magical realist fringes, full of drinking, singing and close-ups on weathered peasant faces, Vojtěch Jasný’s 1968 film All My Good Countrymen is exactly the sort of thing some people think of when you talk about classic European cinema. Following the fortunes and misfortunes of […]