Who Will Watch the Watchman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Directed by Karel Vachek
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In the fourth and final instalment of Karel Vachek’s not-so-little Little Capitalist Tetralogy, preparations for an opera performance in the Czech capital’s art-nouveau National Theatre become the occasion for a reflection on rebels, dissidents, and others subversives who stand in battle, heroically and sometimes tragically, against majority opinion, established rules, or powerful institutions. "As the camera wanders over, around and through Prague’s lavish National Theatre, director J.A. Pitínský coaches singers through a rehearsal of Bedřich Smetana’s tragic opera Dalibor. Intercut with the tale of the 15th-century knight who, imprisoned, refused to name names, Vachek interviews, on the plush red seats of the empty theatre, a whole series of latter-day rebels.
Other films by Karel Vachek
Communism and the Net, or the End of Representative Democracy
2019
Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids' Tearful Valley
2011
Záviš, the Prince of Pornofolk Under the Influence of Griffith's Intolerance and Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday or the Establishment and Doom of Czechoslovakia (1918-1992)
2006
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
