Italy / Sep 01, 1965 / Venice Film Festival
Reflection (1966)
Directed by Evald Schorm
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A multilayered documentary film draws the viewer into a hospital environment, where we meet not only patients, with their fears, pains, and joys, but also doctors.
32min
Overall average
5.0/10
Plot
A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and death, set amidst complex hospital apparatus and the sadness, hope, or resignation of the patients. Existentialist rather than optimist, the approach is one of humanistic atheism, accepting death as part of life. Interviews with doctors and nurses explore their outlook; all speak of death as a fact, without either sentimentality or religiosity. The studied objectivity of the film only imperfectly hides an intense emotionality.
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Genres
Documentary
Technical details
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Original title | Zrcadlení |
| Original language | Český (CS) |
| Spoken languages | Český |
| Production countries | Czechoslovakia |
| Status | Released |
| Production companies | Krátký film Praha – Studio dokumentárních filmů |
| Release date | 1 aprile 1966 |
| Writer | Evald Schorm, Jan Špáta |
| Editing | Vlasta Styblíková |
| Cinematography | Jan Špáta |
| Assistant directors | Evald Schorm |
| Camera operators | Jan Špáta |
| Additional photography | Jan Špáta |
| Music | Jan Klusák, Antonín Kleisner |
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| Sound | Jan Klusák, Antonín Kleisner |
Release dates
Premiere
Theatrical release
XC / Apr 01, 1966 / Together with Bloudění
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