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DOI: <
10.24310/Fotocinema.2022.vi24.13627>
Abstract
Czech filmmaker Ivan Zachariáš offers a complex plot of spies in The Sleepers during the weeks preceding the Velvet Revolution, which ended four decades of communism in Czechoslovakia. The locations of this TV series depersonalise the Gotic monumental Prague and barrock characteristic of other audiovisual productions to collect an interesting catalogue of rationalistic architectures, such as the dům Radost building (Karel Honzík and Josef HAVLÍČEK) – significantly influenced by Le Corbusier-, the seat of the Sports Organisation Sokol (František Marek, Václav Vejrych and Jaroslav Kabeš) or the Krematorium Strašnice (Alois Mezera). These scenarios, which allow recreation from diplomatic spaces to the Czech political police offices (ŠtB), also go through the Prague historicist of Václav Roštlapil or the Socialist Architecture of František Jeřábek, responsible for the International Hotel. A new film look, in short, to one of Europe’s most architectural diverse cities.