Underplayed Gems

Pravda (1969)

Pravda poster
Directed by
Paul Burron, Jean-Henri Roger, Jean-Luc Godard
Genre
documentary film
Country
France
Runtime
58 min
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This film is a 60-minute documentary shot in Prague in April 1969, right after the Warsaw Pact invasion ended the Prague Spring. Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Henri Roger use material from Bertolt Brecht's book to present a lesson about communist behavior.

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What happens

Pravda est un film français d'une durée de 60 minutes de Jean-Luc Godard et Jean-Henri Roger, sorti en 1970. Il est tourné à Prague en avril 1969, peu après l'invasion de la Tchécoslovaquie par les troupes du pacte de Varsovie au cours de l'été 1968, qui a mis fin à l'expérience du communisme démocratique connue sous le nom de Printemps de Prague. Godard s'inspire de l'ouvrage Me Ti. Livre des retournements (Me-ti. Buch der Wendungen, 1971) de Bertolt Brecht, lui-même inspiré du philosophe chinois Mozi pour rédiger une leçon de comportement qui présente sous une forme détournée la doctrine du communisme. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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