Menzel i inni. Adaptacje filmowe prozy Bohumila Hrabala
Menzel and others. Movie adaptations of prose by Bohumil Hrabal

Summary/Abstract: Many characteristics of the prose of the outstanding Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal make his works quite difficult for adaptation for the cinema screen. Nevertheless, many films based on these works achieved a considerable artistic success and wrote themselves into the history of cinema. The novella film Pearls of the Deep (1964), along with two short films that had eventually remained outside it, became a peculiar manifesto of the Czechoslovak New Wave and a generation of young authors at the start of their artistic career. Later, the most prominent director of adaptations of Hrabal’s works became Jiří Menzel, who won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film already for his first feature film, the adaptation of Hrabal’s Closely Observed Trains. The Hrabal–Menzel writer-and--filmmaker duo is an outstanding and unique phenomenon.

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