CzechMate - In Search of Jiří Menze

This seven-hour documentary about the Czechoslovak New Wave was made by the Indian director Dungarpur, inspired by Menzel's film Ostře sledované vlaky (1966). In it, he explores a period of more than four decades from the nationalisation of the Czech film industry in 1948, through the emergence of the Czechoslovak New Wave in the 1960s to the Gentle Revolution in 1989. The fascinating world of the New Wave and its creators is explored in a film featuring 85 personalities from the world of cinema...