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Karel Kachyna: Czechoslovakia
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When democracy returned to Czechoslovakia in 1989, Kachyna was offered a job at the Prague Film Academy once again and all his films were taken out of the vaults. A year later, Kachyna made the Czech-French co-production "The Last Butterfly" about Jewish children in the Theresienstadt ghetto.
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Struggling with problems, often close to a catastrophe and a ban on working, the artistic level of Kachyna and Prochazka's controversial films gradually increased. In 1966 they made Coach to Vienna (Kocar do Vidne, 1966), arguably their most controversial film dealing with a subject which was always a strict taboo in socialist Czechoslovakia: the darker side of the guerilla ("partisan") movement during World War II.
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Most of the directors were educated at FAMU, the Czech state film school, from which Kachyna was among the first to graduate. The "Czech Film Miracle" reached its peak in the Prague Spring of 1968, when Alexander Dubcek became first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, the culmination of a period of social and cultural democratisation in Czechoslovakia which afforded filmmakers unprecedented artistic freedom.
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