Czech Clockwork
The documentary reflects outstanding examples of new Czech music – in six basic music genres: the classical music part offers a detailed documentary about the avant-garde opera Good Soldier Svejk by Robert Kurka, jazz music is represented by the Czech jazz bass school of players. Pop music part shows the sub world of young music groups with talented visual artists from the countryside, the legendary Czech film music is presented by new orchestra and its leader and soloist Jan Hasenorhl, underground art music is played by an established poet J.H. Krchovsky and the street folk music is a mix of music by a pub organist beloved by the writer Bohumil Hrabal and its newer punk transformation. 6x26'
Bloody Meeting in the North
In the 1950s and 1960s, some 200 000 tramps were listed in the files of the Czechoslovak Ministry of the Interior. The ministry elaborated an extensive program of their intimidation, suppression and provocation to anti-regime behaviour. The tramp movement was systematically dispersed and massacred by units of the ministry and the people's militias. The most infamous bloody intervention took place close to Jetřichovice in the Děčín region in 1963. However, the event cannot be excluded from its historical context; it was not a unique event but rather a demonstration of power of the totalitarian regime. The documentary is a pilot film of a Czech Television series. The realization of the documentary was financially supported by Václav Havel.