Ročník 21 Explained

Ročník 21
Director:Václav Gajer
Country:Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Language:German

Ročník 21 (German title: Jahrgang 21,[1] English title: Those Born in 21) is a Czechoslovak-East German film directed by Václav Gajer.[2] It was released in 1958 one year after its production.[3]

Premise

Honzík, a young Czech, falls in love with Käthe, a German nurse, during his time as a forced labourer in Germany.

Cast

Production

The film is an adaptation of Ročník jedenadvacet,[4] a 1953 Czech novel by Karel Ptáčník.[5]

Ročník 21's original official distributor presented it as follows:[6] "The film was created in cooperation between the Barrandov Film Studio and the East German studio DEFA as one of [Czech film industry] first international co-productions. It was filmed partly in the original exteriors of bombed-out Dresden."[7] [8]

Release

Ročník 21 premiered on February, 2 1958.[9] [10]

Reception

Audiences' response in East Germany is said to have been "reserved" but "Walter Ulbricht praised the movie".

Ročník 21 has been described as "having captured the fate of a generation".[11] "This romance filmed in the austere style of Italian neo-realism, without idealisation and pathos of Gajer's previous films, portrays the stories of Czech boys taken to Germany where they become forced workers."[12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jahrgang 21. 2023-12-15 . filmportal.de.
  2. Book: Balski, Grzegorz . Directory of Eastern European Film-makers and Films 1945-1991 . 1992 . Flicks Books . 978-0-948911-69-9.
  3. Book: Karl . Lars . Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960 . Skopal . Pavel . 2015-12-01 . Berghahn Books . 978-1-78238-997-2.
  4. Web site: Databazeknih.cz . Ročník jedenadvacet - kniha . 2023-12-15 . databazeknih.cz.
  5. Book: Bartošková . Šárka . Filmové profily: českoslovenští scenáristé, režiséři, kameramani, hudební skladatelé a architekti hraných filmů . Bartošek . Luboš . 1986 . Československý filmový ústav . cs.
  6. Web site: Ročník 21 (1957). ČSFD. 2023-12-15 . cs.
  7. Web site: Ročník 21 - iVysílání. Czech Television. 2023-12-15 . cs.
  8. Book: Roschlau, Johannes . Zwischen Barrandov und Babelsberg: deutsch-tschechische Filmbeziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert . 2008 . Text + Kritik . 978-3-88377-949-2 . de.
  9. Web site: Ročník 21 (1957). Filmový přehled . 2023-12-15 . cs.
  10. Web site: 1958-02-28 . Filmdetails: Jahrgang 21; Rocnik jedenadvacet (1957) . 2023-12-15 . defa-stiftung.de . de.
  11. Book: Blech, Richard . Panoráma svetovej kinematografie, 1945-1964 . 1965 . Obzor . sk.
  12. Web site: Václav Gajer – Revue . 2023-12-15 . Filmový přehled.

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