Made at the height of Godard’s Marxist-Leninist phase, PRAVDA was commissioned by West German television as a documentary on Czechoslovakia in the wake of the crushing of the Prague Spring, despite the French filmmaker’s hostility to both Czech reformists and Soviet hardliners. But Godard – aided in the editing suite by the young Maoist militant Jean-Pierre Gorin – transformed the project into an analysis of the effects of “revisionism” in the Eastern Bloc, as well as, more fundamentally, a deconstructionist essay on the relationship between text and image in the cinema.
PRAWDA
FRA 1969 / 58 min / OV + eng SUB
Language: French, Czech, English
Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger, Paul Burron
Screenings
Museum Wiesbaden Fr, 22.04. / 20:00 Uhr
Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger, Paul Burron
Cinematographer: Jean-Henri Roger, Paul Burron, Jean-Luc Godard
Editor: Paul Burron, Jean-Henri Roger, Jean-Luc Godard
Sound: Jean-Henri Roger, Paul Burron, Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Luc Godard, Věra Chytilová
Producer: Claude Nedjar
Production Company: C.E.C.R.T. – Centre Européen pour le Cinéma, la Radiodiffusion et la Télévision
Rights Holder: Gaumont
Made at the height of Godard’s Marxist-Leninist phase, PRAVDA was commissioned by West German television as a documentary on Czechoslovakia in the wake of the crushing of the Prague Spring, despite the French filmmaker’s hostility to both Czech reformists and Soviet hardliners. But Godard – aided in the editing suite by the young Maoist militant Jean-Pierre Gorin – transformed the project into an analysis of the effects of “revisionism” in the Eastern Bloc, as well as, more fundamentally, a deconstructionist essay on the relationship between text and image in the cinema.
Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger, Paul Burron
Cinematographer: Jean-Henri Roger, Paul Burron, Jean-Luc Godard
Editor: Paul Burron, Jean-Henri Roger, Jean-Luc Godard
Sound: Jean-Henri Roger, Paul Burron, Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Luc Godard, Věra Chytilová
Producer: Claude Nedjar
Production Company: C.E.C.R.T. – Centre Européen pour le Cinéma, la Radiodiffusion et la Télévision
