ŠIKL'S PRIVATE CENTURY WINS ELSA FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY
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2007 ELSA AWARDS
Best Documentary Film
Private Century
8 films, each 52'
Czech Republic, 2002-2006
Written and directed by: Jan Šikl
Editor: Jan Daňhel / Šimon Špidla
Sound: Daniel Němec
Script editor: Jan Gogola
An 8-part documentary series that chronicles the 20th century through amateur family films. This material was in the time of its creation an exclusively private matter concerning only a narrow group of people. It however has grown to become a unique testimony of spontaneous private lives. It is a probe to intimate family niches. The Private Century cycle is free of the ambition to present self-contained historical views. Its aim is much more modest: to stop the time. Within Private Century, the local private memory becomes public. All the meanings in the film acquire much wider and more universal humane scope. Private Century shows the history as a set of intimate human stories.
King of Velichovky
Daddy and Lili Marlene
Statuary of Granddad Vinda
See You in Denver
A Stroke of Butterfly Wings
With Kisses from Your Love
Small Russian Clouds of Smoke
A Low-level Flight
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