Václavské náměstí

Looking back from the film itself, more of a reflection. The 1960s, in culture, music, art and film, is the most exciting decade this republic has seen (though that goes for all of Europe). It’s the time of the awakening of the “big beat”, the time of countless rock bands, the time of the growing popularity of the Semafor theatre of Suchý, Šlitr and the artists associated with them, the time of the magnificent performances of Werich and Horníček, the time of the cracking ice in the perception of censorship, when many films (The White Lady and many others) openly aimed at the party mores and everything culminated in the official abolition of censorship in 1968, the exciting time of the inventive New Wave of Czechoslovak cinema, when no artistic compromises were made and which lead to the emergence of a new generation of great filmmakers and two Oscars for the Czechoslovakian film industry, the time of the onset of the awakening sexual revolution, the era of The Beatles and the light reverberations of the hippie movement that resonated gently in our country from as far away as San Francisco, etc, etc. In short, it was an exciting decade that I regret I didn't experience closely...... and then in '68 came Brezhnev's minions and everything went to shit.... (2013.08.31)