2024-06-05 10:10:08
On Monday night, actors Eliška Balzerová and Pavel Nový remembered the director Karel Kachyňa, whose beginning has handed 100 years this 12 months, on the Zlín competition. Filming with him was a pleasure, he at all times had a really exact concept of what he wished, stated Balzerová.
Kachyňa, who lived from 1924 to 2004, was one of the vital prolific Czech filmmakers. He shot nearly seven dozen characteristic movies and documentaries.
Movies from the Nineteen Sixties, reminiscent of Lengthy Reside the Republic, Carriage to Vienna, Ucho or Evening of the Bride, had been included within the golden fund of cinematography. However his later movies Love between raindrops, Golden eels, The demise of gorgeous deer and Good gentle are additionally recognized.
Karel Kachyňa in an image from 1996. | Picture: CTK
Balzerová performed in three of Kachyňa’s movies. She was near the director. “We lived in homes throughout from one another, we regarded into one another’s home windows. We had been primarily linked by one factor, we had canines and so did he, we walked the canines collectively and talked,” remembers the actress.
“Filming with him was a pleasure. He knew precisely what he wished, God forbid he stated an additional phrase. He wished it to be stylishly clear. He defined all the things after which wished to shoot it that approach. There was no uncertainty, we had been guided by a agency hand,” Balzerová remembers. In accordance with her, Kachyňa was additionally a trainer, he guided and educated actors. “He wasn’t lazy to cease the shot to say: That is how I would like it. He could not stand a lot resistance. He additionally had an inventive expertise and painted the script,” the actress calculates.
A dream come true
Balzerová appeared, amongst different issues, within the 1992 movie Santa Claus Walks the City. “I performed the Previous Goat, she was an previous maid, the pinnacle nurse within the hospital’s youngsters’s ward,” Balzerová explains. Nevertheless, the director solid her for the primary time within the late Seventies within the movie Zlatí uhoři primarily based on the tales of Ota Pavel Jak jsem potkal ryby. “It was my beloved brief story, it was a dream come true,” sums up Balzerová.
Actors Pavel Nový and Eliška Balzerová. | Picture: CTK
Pavel Nový revered Kachyna even exterior the director’s occupation. “He was a smart man. I had him as a substitute of an training,” stated the actor, who acted, for instance, within the director’s Fools and Ladies from 1989.
Balzerová was born in Vsetín. He additionally remembers that Kachyňa studied on the Baťov college. “He stated he was a batsman, he was pleased with that,” the actress mentions. On the Zlín competition, which this 12 months will final till Wednesday, in 2020 she obtained the Golden Shoe award for a unprecedented contribution to cinematography for kids and youth. Pavel Nový took over final 12 months.
A member of the brand new wave
Karel Kachyňa was born in Vyškov close to Brno. In 1951, he accomplished his digicam research at FAMU in Prague, he was one of many first graduates of this school. He was the director of the Czechoslovak Military Movie till the tip of the Fifties, then labored on the Barrandov Movie Studio till 1991.
He first produced documentaries, then started to commit himself to characteristic work. His first movie of this type was Dnes večer svet svečišen, which he made in 1955 together with his classmate Vojtěch Jasný.
He drew appreciable consideration to himself with the up to date King of Šumava from 1959. A 12 months later, his movie Práče, a battle story of a small boy primarily based on the e book by Jan Mareš, was launched.
Within the second half of the Nineteen Sixties, Karel Kachyňa joined the Czech “new wave”. His finest movies from this era had been later banned by censorship. This most prized period of his work is linked with the author and screenwriter Jan Procházka, with whom he collaborated on the battle movie Lengthy Reside the Republic, the chamber drama Kočár do Vídne, the drama Evening of the Bride and, most not too long ago, the well-known political tragicomedy about StB practices referred to as Ucho.
“I usually learn that the movies I made within the 60s are amongst my finest. However I personally suppose that none of these movies are good. However because of the truth that I had a superb screenwriter, I managed to mirror the time an uncommon diploma of truthfulness,” assessed Kachyňa of his profitable inventive interval, who nonetheless continued filming within the 70s and 80s.
“Not solely did he not obtain any official or unofficial ban, which Pavel Juráček, for instance, as soon as contemplated over, however he additionally turned the busiest normalization director,” wrote critic Martin Šrajer, in keeping with whom even Kachyň’s normalization work was characterised by an above-average stage regardless of the extraordinary work tempo.
So far as the themes are involved, the director selected a compromise between the calls for of the dramaturgy and the fabric that was near him. “For instance, the Lenin challenge in Prague, which Kachyňa talked about in Záběr journal in April 1971, fortunately he did not need to direct it,” mentions Šrajer.
From 1990, Kachyňa taught at FAMU in Prague. He was the president of the Czech Movie and Tv Academy. In 1995, he obtained the Czech Lion for his creative contribution to Czech cinematography, and 4 years later he obtained a particular award on the Karlovy Differ competition.
Though he introduced on the flip of the century that he was ending filming, he continued to movie, even when just for Czech Tv – firstly of the millennium, for instance, the titles Leather-based Solar or Unknown Father, or Journey to the Depths of the Soul of the Gear Chief. In 2003, his final movie The Highway was Dry, Generally Moist was broadcast on tv. “I foolishly thought it will go to cinemas. But it surely did not occur. I’ve no affect on it. Apparently somebody acknowledged that it was not applicable for this half to be offered in cinemas,” Kachyňa didn’t cover his bitterness over the destiny of his ultimate challenge.