Blocks of Flats

Directed by Jiří Menzel

Written by Jiří Menzel, Jan Svoboda

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.”

Cast

Alexandr Postler

Narrator (voice)