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We Want to Die (2022)
Directed by Martin Ježek, Jaroslav Tarnovski
Documentary · 35m
A poetic story of a proletarian couple’s relationship during the years of economic crisis and unemployment – of all the films directed by E. F. Burian, the film Chceme žít (We Want to Live, 1949) is probably his worst. The intention to create a powerful work of cinema that would combine modern means of expression with the ideological canons of socialist realism failed completely. Ježek and Tarnovski discovered these „shambles“ and tried to rebuild a structure out of the hopelessness and futility of life. Ježek has photochemically “transcribed” selected passages with the greatest possible degree of humility towards the work of the great avant-gardist, Tarnovski similarly makes the soundtrack visible. The improvised encounter of sound and image in dialogic mode can lead to various misunderstandings resulting in ambiguous compromise.
Crew
- Director
- Martin Ježek, Jaroslav Tarnovski
- Original Music Composer
- Jaroslav Tarnovski
Details
- Original title
- Chceme umírat
- Release date
- 2022-10-28
- Runtime
- 35m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- CS
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czech Republic