This year we are also organizing open-air screenings. Our atrium is located on the third floor of the building and the smoking area is marked. Have a drink and enjoy some cult films.
"The Musical of the Totalitarian Age" is the subtitle of Smoker, which was based on Tomáš Vorel's other famous school film ING. (1985), but which has undergone many changes here. In fact, only the axis of the story has remained: a young engineer arrives at his first workplace with the intention of working, which turns out to be a shocking excess in the bizarre circumstances of the last years of the era of totalitarian convulsions. Mirek, with his unusually normal attitude, sets the course of "local" history in motion, and so social evil (personified by incompetent bosses) is currently overthrown by a righteously indignant, awakened crowd, and a new order is established, but in many ways it begins to resemble the old order turned inside out. The head of one of the theatres of the Prague Five, Lumír Tuček of the recitation group Forward, collaborated with Tomáš Vorl on the script. The film has a poetics typical of the aforementioned community: a blending of the serious with the frivolous, irony with admiration, reality with the bizarre, reality with the absurd.
Comedy Musical
Czechoslovakia 1990 89 min
Directed by Tomáš Vorel
Programme subject to change.
