In 1968, Karel Vachek filmed SPŘIZNĚNÍ VOLBOU, his famous documentary about the presidential elections in the year of the Prague Spring. More than two decades later, he followed it up with this film: a documentary kaleidoscope of conflicting opinions and sentiments at the time of the first democratic elections in post-communist Czechoslovakia in 1990. Without any comment by its director, the three-hour “documentary-novel” combines celebrities and unknowns, historical and seemingly trivial events, and a spectre of different hopes and attitudes.
Nový hyperion aneb volnost, rovnost, bratrství / Neuer Hyperion oder Freiheit, Gleichheit, Brüderlichkeit
CZE 1992 / 207 min
Director: Karel Vachek
Screenplay: Karel Vachek
Cinematographer: Ivan Vojnár,Karel Slach
Editor: Luba Durkovičová,Věra Čejková
Music: Bedřich Smetana,Jaromir Vejvoda
Producer: Václav Hájek
Production Company: Krátky Film a.s. - Prag
In 1968, Karel Vachek filmed SPŘIZNĚNÍ VOLBOU, his famous documentary about the presidential elections in the year of the Prague Spring. More than two decades later, he followed it up with this film: a documentary kaleidoscope of conflicting opinions and sentiments at the time of the first democratic elections in post-communist Czechoslovakia in 1990. Without any comment by its director, the three-hour “documentary-novel” combines celebrities and unknowns, historical and seemingly trivial events, and a spectre of different hopes and attitudes.
