Intimate Lighting

Czechoslovakia 1965 / 70 min. /  DCP & Blu-ray

Director → Ivan Passer / Screenplay → Jaroslav Papoušek, Václav Šašek, Ivan Passer / Director of Photography → Josef Střecha, Miroslav Ondříček / Set Designer → Karel Černý / Editor →  Jiřina Lukešová / Cast → Karel Blažek, Zdeněk Bezušek, Věra Křesadlová, Jan Vostrčil, Jaroslava Štědrá, Vlastimila Vlková, Karel Uhlík, Miroslav Cvrk, Dagmar Ředinová, Jiří Růžička st., Martin Štědrý

This film is among the most highlyrated Czechoslovak New Wave pictures. Instead of the traditional confrontation of two opposing approaches to life, Passer delivers a tragicomic mosaic imbued with subtle melancholy at the passing of time, dashed dreams and the incompatibility of the masculine and feminine worlds.