Little White Lies

Silence and Cry

1968

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he question that hangs over this and many of the other early films by the from 1968 arrived soon after the director’s most well-loved works: 1966’s and 1967’s . In all three films Janscó takes advantage of his homeland’s eerily flat terrain which is so vast, open and empty that it serves as a kind of open prison. As with those films, explores the crooked power dynamics between fascistic soldiers and the crestfallen proletariat who are mocked and manipulated.

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