Blocks of FlatsMovie
A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings, symbolizing the obsolete past, alternate with shots of construction sites for new prefabricated apartment buildings. In spite of certain unavoidable propagandistic overtones added by the director, it is notable as the beginning of his search for a “dramaturgy of colors.”
About Blocks of Flats
Blocks of Flats is a 1960 documentary movie directed by Jiří Menzel.
The production information lists a runtime of 6m, production credits from Czechoslovakia, an original language code of CS.
The credited cast includes Alexandr Postler. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
