Paper Heads

2D35 mmOR15
Director:Dušan Hanák
Premiere:1. May 1996
Length:96 minutes
Genre:Dokumentárny

Paper Heads

Papierové hlavy; Dušan Hanák, 1995, versions: OR, languages: deu, rus, slk

Nežná revolúcia a film

Director: Dušan Hanák • Scenario: Dušan Hanák • Kameraman: Alojz Hanúsek + archívne zábery • Actors: Daniel Bédi, Anna Bonková, Cecília Danišová, Václav Divíšek, Rudolf Dobiáš

“I think that we are unable to deal with our own past. Paper Heads is a reflection on freedom and lack of freedom. It talks about the relationship between the citizen and power and the lack of respect for human rights in the Czechoslovakia of 1945–1989. The film takes place in the framework of street theatre. The conclusion extends these happening motives by contemporary reflections of our times. The structure of the film is built around key events of the past regime and archive footage is applied in shortened, paradoxical and even humorous ways. In the testimonies I looked for the people’s concrete human and universal dimensions in order to combine them in an emotional picture of man in socialist society.” Dušan Hanák

Length: 96 min

Year: 1995
Local premiere date: 1. May 1996

Country of origin:

  • Slovakia
  • Czech Republic
  • France
  • Germany
  • Switzerland

Language version:

OR - Original version (german, russian, slovak)

Nežná revolúcia a film

Director: Dušan Hanák • Scenario: Dušan Hanák • Kameraman: Alojz Hanúsek + archívne zábery • Actors: Daniel Bédi, Anna Bonková, Cecília Danišová, Václav Divíšek, Rudolf Dobiáš

“I think that we are unable to deal with our own past. Paper Heads is a reflection on freedom and lack of freedom. It talks about the relationship between the citizen and power and the lack of respect for human rights in the Czechoslovakia of 1945–1989. The film takes place in the framework of street theatre. The conclusion extends these happening motives by contemporary reflections of our times. The structure of the film is built around key events of the past regime and archive footage is applied in shortened, paradoxical and even humorous ways. In the testimonies I looked for the people’s concrete human and universal dimensions in order to combine them in an emotional picture of man in socialist society.” Dušan Hanák

Year: 1995
Local premiere date: 1. May 1996

Country of origin:

  • Slovakia
  • Czech Republic
  • France
  • Germany
  • Switzerland

Language version:

OR - Original version (german, russian, slovak)