Václav Táborský's film journey through Central Bohemia at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s presents an idyllic picture of post-war development, marked by the construction of new housing, schools and cultural institutions. Significantly, the film ends with shots of the opening of the House of Culture in Příbram, where happy citizens of various professions, including those who had become engineers or directors during the fifteen years after the war, meet. The film was made to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the liberation of Czechoslovakia.
The Central Bohemian Region is experiencing its fifteenth spring since the end of the Second World War. In the maternity hospital in Kladno, new little citizens are born. They will live in newly built houses and villages where only monuments and memorials will remind us of the horrors of the occupation. The leading example of post-war development is the new village of Lidice. Other villages were not destroyed by the Nazis, but by the post-war construction of the Orlice and Slapy Dams. New villages have already been built in place of the flooded ones. Modern residential houses, cultural facilities and schools are being built. There young people can find jobs in various sectors. After the war, penicillin began to be produced in Roztoky near Prague, and nuclear energy research is conducted in Řež. The citizens of Příbram put their best clothes on and meet at the opening of the new House of Culture.
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Patnácté předjaří
Patnácté předjaří
Fifteenth Prespring
15. předjaří / Kraj Praha – venkov
film
documentarytheatrical distribution
socialist-realism, political
Czechoslovakia
1960
1960
projection approval 11 February 1960
premiere 1960 /suitable for youths/
no caption
short film
12 min
336 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech, commentary
without subtitles
Czech
