Rent The Sun in a Net (1962)
3.6 of 5 from 63 ratings
1h 30min
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- Synopsis:
Stefan Uher's exquisite, groundbreaking film is consistently ranked amongst the greatest films in the history of Czechoslovak cinema. It is also recognised as the film that kick-started the 'Czechoslovak New Wave', one of cinema's great creative movements. Bringing to the screen a number of then-unacceptable social and political themes (given the strict censorship of the time), combined with surprising sexual frankness and an exhilaratingly freewheeling approach, 'The Sun in a Net' presented an authenticity in its depiction of ordinary lives that immediately struck a strong chord with audiences, consequently leading to the film being judged unsuitable by the authorities. This landmark film now finally gets its British premiere fifty years on from its first screening. - Actors:
- Marián Bielik, Jana Beláková, Olga Salagová, Pavel Chrobak, Adam Janco, Vladimír Malina, Eliska Nosálová, Lubo Roman, Andrej Vandlík
- Directors:
- Stefan Uher
- Producers:
- Jan Svikruha
- Writers:
- Alfonz Bednár
- Aka:
- Slnko v sieti
- Studio:
- Second Run
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Miloš Forman, Top 10 Czech Films, Top Films
- Countries:
- Czechoslovakia
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Up on the Roof - The Sun in a Net review by CH
Who knew that there were so many aerials above Bratislava in the early-Sixties? This is but one of the inights offered by a film which should be better known as part of those which ushered in the Czech new wave of film-making. Here we find, on the roof of these numerous apartment buildings a teenage pair undressed for the sun. The summer will separate them, he off to the fields to harvest, and thresh, corn and take up with somebody else while she finds succour with somebody at the waterside, a relief from the household dominated by a mother who has lost her sight for reasons which become clear amidst all this emotional stress. Such is some of a plot which builds scene by scene in a way that is underlaid by as much optimism as bleakness
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