Scene from the film All My Good Countrymen
Scene from the film All My Good Countrymen
Scene from the film All My Good Countrymen
Scene from the film All My Good Countrymen
Scene from the film All My Good Countrymen

All My Good Countrymen

Direction
Year 
1968
Country
  • Czech Republic
Runtime
115min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

Všichni dobří rodáci (All Good Countrymen) is considered to be one of the greatest of all Czechoslovak films. However, soon after its July 1969 premiere, the film, from writer-director Vojtěch Jasný, found itself on the list of banned works. In 1970, Jasný emigrated and continued his filmmaking career in Germany. But Vojtěch Jasný ultimately returned to Czech film via Návrat ztraceného ráje (Which Side Eden, 1999), which serves as a loose sequel to Všichni dobří rodáci. These two movies are viewed as the highpoints of Jasný’s directorial career. Jasný’s 1968 effort won him a Best Director award at that year’s Cannes Film Festival. Všichni dobří rodáci was also awarded the Technical Grand Prize – Special Mention at this same festival in recognition of the excellent colour cinematography of Jaroslav Kučera. Indeed, the camera essentially serves as an additional character in this film, which tells the story of several neighbours in a small Moravian village, whose sense of joyful solidarity is strongly disrupted by the advance of 1950s collectivisation policies. This poetic chronicle in which director Jasný drew inspiration from his native town of Kelč, also boasts tremendous costume design from Ester Krumbachová. Innovative experimentation with colours, contrasts and natural light infuses Všichni dobří rodáci with an unforgettable atmosphere: it is an archetypically “pleasant” film, whose visual beauty contrasts strongly with (and perhaps even masks) the painful events depicted in the story. Jasný’s film is filled with a poetic spirit, occasionally elevated to truly surrealistic moments, which are in perfect harmony with the film’s themes of love and death – and which touch most of the main characters of the film

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  • Original Title
    Všichni dobří rodáci
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Vojtěch Jasný
  • Cast
    Radoslav Brzobohatý, Věra Galatíková, Vlastimil Brodský, Eva Blažková, Waldemar Matuška, Marie Málková, Vladimír Menšík, Pavel Pavlovský, Drahomíra Hofmanová, Václav Babka, Růžena Merunková, Jiří Tomek, Václav Lohniský, Ilja Prachař, Jaroslava Vysloužilov
  • Cinematography
    Jaroslav Kučera
  • Editing
    Miroslav Hájek, Jan Kučera
  • Music
    Svatopluk Havelka
  • Sound
    Dobroslav Šrámek
  • Runtime
    115 min (91+ min.)
  • Year
    1968
  • Country
    • Czech Republic
  • Format
    • Colour
  • Distribution

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