Film memory of Stalinism, pictures of the past as a stabilizer of memory nad social frames of collective remembering

Abstract

The text analyses Czech postwar cinematography. It observes its influence on cultural memory and focuses on the ways of dealing with war traumas by pictures of the past.

The film Jan Roháč z Dubé by Vladimír Borský stands in the centre of attention.

Keywords

• cultural memory
• trauma
• film