Však ty si vzpomeneš! Temno (1950) v historické paměti
But you’ll remember! – darkness (1950) in the historical memory

Summary/Abstract: The 1950/1951 film Temno (Darkness), an adaptation of a novel of the same title by Alois Jirásek, was the product of two key propaganda drives of the freshlyinstalled Communist regime: the socalled Operation Jirásek, and an antichurch campaign. The Communists built on the historical memory of the nation in constructing the legitimacy and continuity of their regime. At the same time, they fundamentally remade it – in particular by means of the most important art. Nevertheless, for the opponents of the regime that “remembering” allowed the anti-church film Temno to be actually seen as anti-Communist.

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