Vliv komunistického režimu na vývoj československého filmu v padesátých a šedesátých letech 20. století

This diploma thesis discusses the process of Czechoslovak cinema in the fifties and sixties of the 20th century in the communist régime and under the Soviet influence. Labour analysis one of the most exciting period of Czechoslovak history in which alternated years of heavy dictation with years of social and cultural release. The first part focuses on the issue of nationalization of the film in the early fifties. The second part deals with the circumstances of the beginning of the brightest period of Czechoslovak cinema, new wave. The third part describes consequences that August 1968 and subsequent standardization had for local filmmakers. Throughout the work are surveyed facts commented by former protagonists of the time, Antonin Jaroslav Liehmem and Jiri Menzel, who gave interviews for the purposes of this study, the full text of these interviews are also included at the end. The goal is to find answers to questions about how much the Czechoslovak cinema was influenced by the Soviet Union, than if nationalization of cinematography had only negative or even some positive consequences, whether the emergence of a new wave was just an accidental phenomenon or if it was the inevitable answer to the former policy and whether it could be possible to the new wave arise in today's conditions.