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Infrastructures of Czechoslovak cinema: Postwar to New Wave

December 8, 2024 Katya Lopatko

Early FAMU location at Vančura building at Klimenská 4, Prague, 1948-1960. The building was later used as a studio and hosted a film club. Photo taken in 1972. Photo by Tomáš Fassati, Wikimedia Commons.

This post provides an overview of the Czechoslovak film industry in the postwar period, from 1945 into the 1960s, when the Czechoslovak New Wave gained international attention.

Infrastructures of Soviet Thaw cinema: 1953-1960

November 12, 2024 Katya Lopatko

Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, or VGIK. Screenshot from Google images, taken on November 12, 2024. Image captured in May 2021.

This post describes shifting cinematic infrastructures in the postwar Soviet Union, which allowed for a distinctive “Thaw cinema” to emerge in the 1950s and 60s.