Get us in your inbox

Konkurs

  • Film
Advertising

Time Out says

Part One cuts between rehearsals/performance by rival brass bands and the competing attraction of a cross-country motorbike race. Part Two anticipates the audition scenes in Taking Off, as a throng of female singers try out for a part in a show. Though originally made as separate featurettes, the two episodes form a plausible entity, being so similar stylistically and thematically. The approach is documentary with some fictional elements gently interpolated - in the first the defection of two youthful trombonists, in the second the lightly sketched backgrounds of two of the singers. Extremely assured for an apprentice work, this displays the same mix of shrewdness and tenderness that marked all Forman's early films. But as with many East European movies of this era, one suspects that a political allegory is concealed at the heart of it all.
Written by BBa

Release Details

  • Duration:79 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Milos Forman
  • Screenwriter:Milos Forman, Ivan Passer
  • Cast:
    • Frantisek Zeman
    • Valdimir Pucholt
    • Ladislav Jakim
    • Jiri Slitr
    • Vaclav Blumenthal
    • Vera Kresadlova
    • Jan Vostrcil
Advertising
You may also like
You may also like