Film Festival as a Tribunal : The Festival of Czechoslovak Films in Banská Bystrica 1959

Abstract

The study about the Czechoslovakian cinematography situation at the end of fifties after the eleventh communist congress where communists declared the plan to complete the culture revolution. The increased political pressure on culture representatives had resulted in many conflicts in all fields.

One of the most significant took place in 1959.

Keywords

• state and cinema
• Czechoslovak cinema
• cinema and communistic party