It is quite difficult to discuss a documentary that evidently depicts issues of local history, national identity and folk culture as a foreigner. Naturally the phenomenon of clashes between older and younger generations is of a universal character, as elderly people all over the world mumble to themselves: oh, well,

After a complete filmography put out on DVD and Karel Vachek´s collec­tion of ideas in a book called Theory of Mass we have (as of autumn of last year) seen the directors´ memoirs which came about as a result of Martin Švoma´s develop­ment of his diploma work.

The basis of

Karel Vachek is rather a controversial person. His films are hard to grasp for most people. Sometimes they don´t even try due to length of his films. Similarly, most reviewers working on Czech dailies or commercial cinema periodicals (such as Cinema or Premiére) try to „protect“ their readers from

From 1990 onwards Karel Vachek shoots roughly one film in three years. If we consider their length (tetralogy films Small Capitalist, 1992 – 2003, last from two-and-a-half to four hours, and Záviš this year is two-and-a-quarter hours long) then we have one hour of film for each year of