Karhanova parta

A comedy for connoisseurs. The first half mostly beats about empty party phrases and lessons, here and there it plays a piece of Káňa's text, and elsewhere it adds a pseudo-documentary insight into the life of the working class. As soon as the film transitions to people racing to see who grinds the piston pin faster, all of a sudden we get crackling folk humor from the theatrical template, incredibly naive zeal and ingenious scenes with a retroactive projection. Hofbauer's debut, and at the same time his final performance, shows a heroic degree of narrative naivety, attempts to capture the details of the faces and the general directing of the actors make the rigidity of the ideological body smile. Nevertheless, Plachta and Smolík do their own thing, and here and there are sparks at the mill cutter. The non-dramatic structure of Káňa's comedy celebrated by Burian, added the rigidity and forced folklore typical of contemporary film and creates a formally poor whole in terms of content, which, however, will delight experts with its contagious humor, half of which is intentional and half which is very unintentional. (11.11.2009)