葬礼 (1969)
简介 The heroine of this drama about injustice during the collectivization of the Czech countryside is a proud widow, who arranges a magnifi cent funeral for her recently deceased husband. The funeral cere
mony for this honourable farmer who had resisted the state-sanctioned liquidation of farmers and landholders is transformed i nto a manifestation of resistance against the Communist overlords. This story of the struggle against injustice was based on a novel by the dissident writer Eva KantÛrková, whose official publication was also prohibited during “normalization”. Sirov˘’s best film has the out...
