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The Moravian Land (1978)
Directed by Antonín Kachlík
Overview
The reason for making this film is clear: it was to cover up Vojtěch Jasný‘s famous chronicle “All the Good Natives”, an account of the tragic consequences of forced collectivisation. The pro-regime director Antonín Kachlík also focuses on the socialisation of the Moravian village, accompanied by mistakes and coercion, but in his optimistic view he emphasises the hopeful prospects leading to a happy future. Although the united village lands were born in pain, they will serve for the benefit of all the working people… As with Jasný, Radek Brzobohatý embodies the stubborn peasant, who is only slowly acknowledging the benefits of communal farming. However, unlike the poetic exuberance and pithiness of Jasný‘s chronicle, here we encounter a vicious posturing.
Actors
Radoslav Brzobohatý | Jaroslava Vysloužilová | Oldřich Vykypěl | Karel Kabíček | Stanislav Zindulka | Ilja Prachař | Vlasta Vlasáková | Zdeněk Maryška | Bohuš Pastorek | Kvetoslava Houdlová | Zdena Kružíková | Ladislav Večeřa | Karel Koloušek | Václav Babka | Eva Matalová | Helena Růžičková | Vladimír Čapka | Antonín Ženčák | Jiří Lír | Pavel Rubeš | Jan Kuželka | Jana Hliňáková | Arnoštka Mohelská | Miroslav Bezdíček | Eva Strupplová | Martin Táborský | Blanka Křížová | Blažena Kramešová | Dušan Petráň | Helena Nováková | Anna Křiváková | Zdeněk Braunschläger | Slávka Hamouzová | Dana Hlaváčová | Václav Kokšál | Jan Kotva | Bohumil Křížek | Lumír Peňáz | Miroslav Saic | Pavel Spálený | Alfred Strejček | Robert Skalický | Pavel Směšný | Jiří Máša | Petr Fojta | Pavel Nosek | Zdeněk Palusga | Pavla Horká | Ivana Minaříková | Dagmar Schwarzbachová | Stanislav Wandas | Vladimír Švabík | Valter Řehoř | Jan Cmíral | Milada Kuncová | Ladislav Kolář | Zdeněk Černín | Jaroslav Kyncl | Jirí Marsálek | Václav Baur | František Ančík | Lubos Vraspir | Miroslava Kolářová | Drahomíra Kočová | Michaela Čuperová | Henrietta Kohoutová