Desire (Touha) / All My Good Countrymen (Všichni dobří rodáci)

DESIRE

„Jasný deliberately destroyed the canons of Stalinist aesthetics with his film Desire, and he was the first to seek a specifically Czech film language… Desire stood out as a landmark that could not be ignored“ — Antonín Liehm, Closely Observed Films

„After long years of deliberate stifling of form, Desire resurrected in Czech cinema the film poetry once upon a time introduced to it by Rovenský, Frič, Vančura, and Vávra“ — Jan Žalman, Films and Filmmakers

ALL MY GOOD COUNTRYMEN

„All My Good Countrymen is a historic film for both its extraordinary poetic and social qualities and its position as the masterpiece of Vojtech Jasny – father of that brilliant flowering of Czechoslovak cinema“ — Richard Grenier, New York Times

„The film and the milieu it so precisely evokes are not so much nostalgic as they are powerfully remembered and irrevocably lost… All My Good Countrymen reflects the curdled fury of a former true believer“ — Jim Hoberman, Village Voice

„A bitter-sweet, affectionate and pointed picture of a life many Czechs would have recognised. A key film from the Prague Spring“ — Time Out

„Jasný’s lyrical masterpiece“ — Radio Praha

„It’s rare to see such sincere empathy in cinema… revealing itself as one of Second Run’s finest and most user-friendly releases“ — David Jenkins, Little White Lies