About Era and Faith

O dobe a viere

various, CS, 1954 – 1969, 68 min.

Cinemas instead of churches! That is what a slogan of the communist propaganda could look like. Anticlerical purges started in 1950 with violent actions K (men’s monasteries) and R (women’s monasteries) and ended with a brutal intervention against the peaceful “Candle” Manifestation in March 1988. How did atheism work in the film industry? The film historian Eva Filová invites you on a thorny journey from an open conflict against religious obscurantism to an open criticism of the repressive 1950s.