Konkurs
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 Though originally made as separate featurettes, the two episodes form a plausible entity, being so similar stylistically and thematically.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.Author: BBa
Release details
UK release:
1963
Duration:
79 mins
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Cast:
Vera Kresadlova, Vaclav Blumenthal, Jiri Slitr, Ladislav Jakim, Valdimir Pucholt, Frantisek Zeman, Jan Vostrcil
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