Prefabricated Houses (1959)

Name: Prefabricated Houses
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1959-01-01
Duration: 6 min

Czech 6m

Documentary

Release Date 01 Jan 1959

About Prefabricated Houses Movie

Prefabricated Houses (1959) is a Movie in the Documentary genre, available in Czech. A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings, symbolizing the obsolete past, alternate with shots of construction sites for new prefabricated apartment buildings. In spite of certain unavoidable propagandistic overtones added by the director, it is notable as the beginning of his search for a “dramaturgy of colors.”