Czechoslovakia in the 1940s was suffering the impact and aftermath of the second world war, meaning that there was a sudden influx in films being produced - although the control of the Soviet Union over the Czech government meant that all media content had to through public censorship checks before they could be fully released. During this time the Czech approach to society and creativity was forced to disappear and was replaced by the soviet cultural policies of the SU, however, in the following years Czechoslovak started to gain recognition and the Czech film industry was given its first Academy Award (for A Shop on Main Street (1965) directed by Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos). (HAMES, 2005)
Surrealism was a great influence to how the Czech film makers encoded, directed and produced their texts. (OWENS, 2011)
References:
Hames, P. (2005) The Czechoslovak New Wave. Second Edition. London: Wallflower Press
Owens, J. (2011) Avant-Garde to New Wave: Czechoslovakian cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties. New York: Berghahn Books
http://www.newwavefilm.com/international/czech-new-wave.shtml
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