Czech cinematography 1970

Behind the scenes of work of several Czech directors during the 1970’s. Antonín Kachlík is working on the fairy tale Princ Bayaya. Bruno Šefranka casts popular singers in the entertaining TV film Znojemský sen. Jiří Sequens follows up his previous crime films with the title Game of a Handsome Dragoon . Bohuslav Musil is editing documentaries from domestic and foreign archival material. Pravoslav Flak records catchy songs for TV series Haldy in the Ostrava radio studio. Rudolf Krejčík documents the life of African people. Jan Špáta made another of his original films, this time a documentary about a blind climber called Svítí slunce? Evald Schorm directs the short story film Dogs and People, with a cast of actors and non-actors. Animation filmmakers Břetislav Pojar and Hermína Týrlová are working on new films for children. Vladimír Čech will treat the Protectorate period in the drama The Key. For the upcoming 50th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, the documentaries A tady žila by Jaroslav Šikl or film called Klement Gottwald by Drahoslav Holub are being made at the Short Film. In 1970, Karel Zeman celebrated his 60th birthday and received congratulations and gifts from his colleagues in the studio. At the 17th International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, Karel Zeman was the chairman of the jury. The President of the Republic Ludvík Svoboda was an important guest of the festival and attended an informal meeting with Czech film officials, filmmakers, and actors.