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Poster for Footprints

Footprints

Stopy

Czechoslovakia / Czech / 1961 / 20m

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Letterboxd: 3.25/5·703 ratings·152 reviewson Letterboxd
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Synopsis

This early short by Jaromil Jireš anticipates the formal and stylistic experimentation that would characterize VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS.

Included in
Czechoslovak New Wave
Position 4

Credits

Crew

DirectorJaromil Jireš

WriterJan Hartmann

CinematographerJiří Volbracht

Cast

Václav Lohniskýas Karel Joudal

Vladimír Hlavatýas Kudrna

Světla Amortová

as Anna Bernátová

Věra Tichánkováas Joudalová

František Kovářík

Oldřich Lukešas Josef Bernát

Jan Odlas Toník

Double Feature

Streaming now, and why it pairs with this film

Poster for The Hall of Lost Footsteps

The Hall of Lost Footsteps1960

Paired by the Criterion Channel, and both directed by Jaromil Jireš

Or

Uncle1959Paired by the Criterion Channel, and both directed by Jaromil Jireš
The Joke1969Paired by the Criterion Channel, and both directed by Jaromil Jireš

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Pearls of the Deep

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From this film’s page on the Criterion Channel

Footprints (1961) | Criteria