"Czech Television" "and the Czech State Cinema Development Fund" "Present a collage drawn from the diaries of Pavel Juracek" "The Key to Determining Dwarfs or the Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver" "Pavel Juracek was one of the top Czech filmmakers of the 1 960s." "His films are:" "Joseph Kilian (1963), Every Young Man (1965) and Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)" "He wrote nearly 20 screenplays and filled 33 diaries." "July 24, 1964" "It seems like I'm falling." "Yesterday I was looking through my old diaries and I felt an atmosphere I no longer recognize." "An atmosphere I inhaled on endless walks" "I determined to begin writing again." "After four years I return to these diaries because I realize it's an excellent flushing device." "I just need to be candid... that a diary is literature." "I have a terrible fear that I've cracked up." "The distance between my brain and the page seems infinite." "It makes me so afraid I begin to sweat and contemplate suicide." "August 1 9, 1 964" "The happiest person I've ever met is Judita." "I'm so happy to watch her walk, talk and eat, and to be in awe of her perfection." "Nearly every day" "Veronika and I agree there's nothing more wonderful." "We are in such awe." "She's incredible." "I could cry from just watching and listening to her, and it seems unjust that such a happy creature must grow up." "I can imagine her disappointment when she discovers who I am." "I think I'll live to see that day so I'd rather die young." "Then she'd always think I was only here for her fun, that I was someone grand who threw her up in the air, played blocks with her, crawled around on the rug, and told her crazy stories." "July 24, Karlovy Vary" "I think someone's having a laugh at my expense." "I never wanted to be a director." "If I'd known anything about it I'd never have had the courage." "Jan Nemec has it easier:" "he's been certified insane." "Whenever he's afraid he just remembers that and he's fine." "Filmmaking is so hectic these days;" "you can last 7 years maximum." "At 35 we'll be worn out old has-beens." "At most they'll teach about us at film school:" "'Czechoslovak Film of the Sixties.'" "January 9, 1965" "Our flat has been a mess for three weeks." "Welders work in the hallway and masons beat down walls." "But mainly they just sit and drink beer." "When Veronika said she'd write a friend at the Party newspaper about it the foreman said he never read newspapers." "Lately, I think about the film The Key to Determining Dwarfs, about Laputa and Swift." "I'm nervous because I can't picture any plot details." "In waking dreams I see only landscapes, streets, basements." "Occasionally I invent Balnibarbi manners and customs." "In one scene the king opens a nut with huge scissors." "Cries of torture fill the halls of the Laputan palace, but no one notices." "I took some ideas from ancient Mexican cultures." "It's like my idea of society rotting from within because democracy's gone wrong." "But if I find a historical model I can stop speculating." "February 1 8, 1 966" "I've become a functionary for the feature film department of the Union of Film and TV Artists." "I sit at meetings and stare at Chairman Otakar Vavra;" "we don't like each other but don't let on." "As I sit there discussing the unreal world of film" "I'm sorry to have lost another illusion." "Yesterday Klos said our officials still don't realize that Czechoslovak film has matured to a European standard." "But I thought of the day the Party newspaper would write about 'revisionist mistakes,' and of the meeting Vavra would call where Klos would instead bring up the need for self-criticism." "DON'T FORGET TO TURN OUT THE lights" "August 16, 1964" "I'm running away from Veronika." "I've seen things any morality court would convict us for:" "drunk girls sitting naked and nonchalantly smoking, boys hands groping under skirts and sweaters," "legs spreading, girls reclining with cigarettes between fingers, speakers belting out the twist in darkened rooms." "I beat my head against the wall waiting for Veronika to say," "Don't go; stay home and we'll just be in love." "I know it's a dream that will never come true." "January 24, 1965" "Maybe things aren't so bad;" "maybe I just see them that way because I'm thinking about Laputa and Balnibarbi." "I walk through Prague, that dirty dark city reminiscent of a neo-realistic film, where life died 20 years ago." "Tram routes have been detoured and taxis can't get where they're going because all the streets are dug up." "I hear of the most unbelievable things happening every day." "It's like living in a machine gone mad." "The wreck of a bus I ride is out of control but the driver is telling passengers that nothing's wrong." "January 25, 1966" "It says on the bathroom wall that Veronika's got a lover." "Only if you've read about your pure, beloved wife in a toilet can you know how I feel." "It wasn't enough for her to do what she did." "She had to tell everyone about her remarkably muscular guy, and that I couldn't compare." "She didn't take care of Judita." "Drunk every day, she started taking pills too, and once didn't recognize me." "I've realized that we invent an image of the world for ourselves so we can find our way around." "We get used to it and eventually confuse it for the real world." "That perfect world suddenly evaporated for me." "And so nights I cried, and drank so I wouldn't cry, because I stood in an unknown land." "It didn't matter because I didn't really lose Veronika, only my image of her." "June 30, 1966" "They've finally picked a Miss Czechoslovakia." "The stores have Scotch whisky, American smokes, Dutch cocoa..." "Westerns filmed on Kodak play at the movies," "Johnny Hallyday's in concert, and homosexuality is legal." "I'm afraid it's all a dream." "Then I found out the Party has collected materials on us." "We'll provide a scapegoat if Novotny's gang topples." "They say Jan Nemec is the son of a right-winger, and that Vera Chytilova has lived an amoral life." "We're all there... or almost all:" "I'm not They found nothing on me." "Workers can't understand what I write and my mom was a cleaning lady." "I didn't suit their purposes." "What we're living has nothing to do with socialism." "They way we're headed fascism will soon seem an idyll." "July 6, 1966" "I once read about an exhausted runner who kept running in place because inertia kept him going." "Today I've sat for hours staring at the page but I can't go on." "I write and write:" "nothing but disconnected words." "It's going so slowly." "In the past two days I've only written three scenes." "I've got only a quarter of the script done." "I have to really think about this script." "I must be constantly vigilant to weave the plot's details." "I'd rather carry an armful of tiny smooth boxes up a mountain." "I'm not writing;" "I'm asking for the moon." "August 28, 1966" "I need more and more money." "I went to visit Pavel Landovsky at his one-room apartment." "He, his wife, and kids have beds and wardrobes - that's it." "The younger girl sleeps on two chairs pushed together." "Watching her, I wanted to run away so as not to see it." "She's just as sweet as Judita but she sleeps on two chairs." "I don't know how to write about such things;" "I have no right." "During those winters when mom was in the hospital" "I used to make coffee for my brother." "I fetched water, the bucket hitting my ankles, and ice formed on it by morning." "We trembled from the cold and went to school unwashed." "But all that's private;" "it's no one else's business." "August 28, 1966" "I think I've got to do Gulliver differently than I thought." "I recently finished the execution scene." "Later, I read about an old Yemen homosexual sentenced to death." "By law, he should be cast down from the highest point in town." "The court decided to drop him from a plane." "But they said such an execution would cost too much, so they decided to hang him." "When the executioner didn't come at the fixed time, an official approached the condemned to ask if he minded being shot instead." "He raised no objections so an officer shot him in the head." "Everyone laughs at this, but I feel unsure because many of my ideas have become cheap satire." "Undated" "For years I thought: thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife." "Until I got married." "Until Veronika convinced me that wives covet their neighbors." "Everything is more complicated now." "I'd gladly go stay at a hotel, but what about Judita?" "That little five-year-old makes life worth living." "Once when we fought, Judita came running between us." "She feigned ignorance, just wanted us to hold hands." "It was all I could do not to cry;" "Veronika too." "But still we just couldn't touch each other." "For me, Judita is inviolable." "She's made me think of something other than myself." "I'd do anything for Judita." "If someone said:" "Decide, either Judita or Gulliver," "I'd rip the script in half without a second thought." "August 31, 1966" "I read something interesting recently." "A French director claims that the true art of film only arises out of a generation raised on photography and comics." "People will absorb information only through images." "This will result in the quick development of a new esthetic." "Maybe images as we know them are incredibly primitive compared to images people will use in the future." "Six months ago I struggled to begin Gulliver." "For the first time the words just wouldn't come." "I found I couldn't write what I imagined." "Film and words butt heads, and I naively think I can fight that." "I think Sennet, Linder, Harold Lloyd and Chaplin made the freest films in history, but their style is inimitable;" "it's locked in the twenties." "In contrast to film radicals, I think films will become simpler." "September 25, 1966" "Perhaps I won't write Gulliver;" "perhaps I can't finish it." "I'm stuck and can't go on." "I promised something great but am birthing a cripple." "People hate seeing the bones of ideas." "Clowns shouldn't sweat." "If you show them a wound they'll just throw tomatoes at you." "Therein lies the craft none of us understands." "Compared to a Hollywood western we're dilletantes." "Czechoslovak film will never make it till we learn the craft." "We're just a curiosity;" "we're in fashion." "We interest the intellectuals, snobs and experts but that's it." "May 28, 1967" "Veronika's returned a stranger." "She has more secrets." "She has so many of them." "I'm unsure around her;" "I guess I'm in her way." "Soon afterward she brought home a German visa application." "She said she wants to go back." "Veronika's leaving me." "When I think of what's to come I cringe for Judita, the little one we produced." "I feel responsible for her, I think of her as mine." "But Veronika knows she will never be our child." "We know that mere chance connects Judita's life to ours." "November 18, 1966" "They called a meeting, and it's the honest truth:" "high Party officials are nervous about Ivan Vyskocil's beard." "In Jan's film he wears a beard like Lenin." "From this they conclude that the film is extremely dangerous." "The police have bugged Jan's phone." "As Liehm said, "Friends, just get used to it."" "They've been bugging his phone for three years." "But I don't think things are going downhill." "That they called a meeting means this isn't the fifties." "They'll never make a Russia of Czechoslovakia." "January 22, 1967" "I've handed it in." "It's 107 pages long." "The art council meets Thursday, but I can only think about the 'Balnibarbi Silence' scene." "As soon as I gave the script in I realized the scene was stupid." "But they already made copies;" "I just keep saying I'll redo it." "I'm embarrassed of it and would rather have it back." "July 7, 1967" "My memory is worthless." "I constantly listen to Veronika since we stopped going out." "We have no money and the apartment is a mess." "We lie in bed staring into space, speaking for ourselves." "We try to get used to the idea that something has ended." "Sometimes we talk about Judita." "We recall her words, her gestures, her qualities." "Then it's okay." "At no other time." "But then we both just want to cry." "February 8, 1 967" "On the 4th, Brezhnev came to Prague out of the blue." "Novotny recently announced that democracy has it's limits." "These two events seem connected." "Yesterday, Polednak said that 3 scripts have been forbidden:" "Jires's, Schorm's - and mine." "He said they were the last straw." "After that the void opened up before me." "I worked for three years and now it means nothing." "Now I haven't any idea what to do." "I heard about $6,000 I could make blindfolded by just writing a simple script for some Canadian." "When I had Gulliver it was easy to refuse." "But now?" "What are they trying to do to us?" "They gave awards to the last generation but sell us for cash." "June 7, 1 967" "Only nine days have passed." "She isn't in the kitchen;" "she isn't making coffee." "Then she sat down, dawn broke, and our whole life collapsed." "She said she wanted a divorce;" "that she's decided." "I asked her for a reason." "Silence." "Rather stupidly I told her it was the end" "I don't know what to do in such a situation." "February 23, 1967" "The Writers' Union is no help." "They've appointed a committee." "Jir'i Marek, in charge of film, won't stand behind Gulliver." "I don't know why." "I told Jan Nemec I had an idea:" "We'll all meet once a month, draw straws, and the loser will poison himself." "In 1 1 months the last will die;" "it's the only thing to do." "July 3, 1967" "I returned from Paris ten days ago." "She was waiting at the airport." "It seemed things were okay." "She was silent." "But the next day she said she wanted to marry that guy." "She mentioned some details but I've mixed them up." "One thing's sure:" "she doesn't know him well." "She spoke of divorce and said she loved me." "She's going to Germany and doubts if she'll return." "I was afraid I'd do something to her, throw her out." "Veronika's gone." "That beautiful, witty..." "my gal forever... is gone." "2:30 AM" "She's right, it's not about that German." "His name is Thomas and he works in film in Munich." "He taught her to smoke marijuana." "What do you think, she asked me, should I visit Judita?" "Or would it be best if I just disappeared?" "I just stared at her." "In a couple months Judita will ask:" "I close my eyes in fear of that moment." "She cries silently." "Then she says:" "He's coming here Wednesday." "I say:" "Fine, honey, I'll be gone." "But don't be vulgar;" "don't go sleep with him at some hotel." "She gets mad." "She calls me pathetic;" "sees no reason not to sleep with him." "Around February 25, 1967" "Since 1962 I've written 14 or 15 screenplays." "Eleven have been filmed;" "I made two of them myself." "Five years have passed and I feel worn out." "Blank paper scares me and I'm sick of film." "The idea of eternally writing scripts is like a bad dream." "I'm fed up with inventing." "I'm considering journalism, doing work that makes sense." "I can't be an artist in Bohemia any longer." "October 9-20, 1967" "She deluded me." "Her heartlessness is absurd." "I never knew a harder person." "She looks at me like a cat sizing up a mouse." "The trial starts in an hour." "I'm nervous waiting for her." "She's called twice but hangs up when I answer." "I still haven't told mom." "The presiding judge read the decision:" "as of 1 :30 PM Veronika is no longer my wife." "Thursday, August 22, 1968" "It was neither dark nor light." "Then they started shooting." "A carrier knocked a woman down and ran over her leg." "I ran to a wall and waited for it to end." "His chin trembled as he mumbled about Russian imperialism." "They put a corpse on a taxi;" "blood dripped onto the ground." "Huge planes bring tanks." "They've been here two days;" "there are 200,000 of them." "They shoot and kill, but they haven't won." "That's what amazes me most." "They don't know what to do with us; they stare openmouthed." "A rhino against a butterfly." "I can't write;" "too much trouble to hold a pen." "I can't concentrate." "The words in my head have no meaning." "It's like I can't speak Czech." "January 1 0, 1 969" "It hasn't ended yet." "Veronika's kidnapped Judita." "They've brought charges against her." "I never thought I'd turn to the police in a case against my onetime sweetheart," "or refer to Judita as a kidnap victim." "This absurdity hasn't ended even after three years." "Gulliver is back in production;" "we start in March." "January 22, 1969" "I said, "Professor, I don't like what they're saying about them." "Everyone's so sentimentaland patriotic, Professor." "They all say he's a hero but none speak of his motives." "Jan Palach didn't die to have a square named after him." "We'll get him off our backs by raising monuments to him." "It's only the day he died and the lies are already thick." "We're cowards, Professor, and so we forever speak of his heroism." "He didn't die to prove that Czechs were heroes." "He died to fight censorship." "And until something's done about it, parades mean nothing." "Parades merely soothe our hypocritical consciences."" "4:15 AM" "I was recently told Kucera wanted to make a film with me." "I spent several wistful days ironically thinking of my films." "There were no cameramen last year." "I realize I should have one before I write a script." "After deliberating I went to see Kalis." "He refused Brynych and others in order to work with me." "Now Cur'ik, Sofr, and Kucera all want to work with me." "But I must keep my word to Kalis." "I wanted to subordinate the camera to compositional principles drawn from image history." "It would be very demanding and I think only Kalis could manage it." "But now it seems I wrote the film differently." "Gulliver is now the subject and it must be seen through him." "And Kucera's the best for seeing things through Gulliver's eyes." "May 4, 1969" "I've shot a third, but I fight the feeling I'm losing control." "I don't have time to remedy that." "Afterward they'll say I ruined the script." "I prompt myself:" "Concentrate!" "This is your greatest work ever." "I work as best I can." "I make concessions like always, but feel I'm bothering people." "When alone I think of Judita." "I see her mornings, barefoot, coming to my room still sleepy, calling out to me:" "Hi, daddy, I'm already awake." "Then I beg fate to bring her back and take my film as ransom." "Gulliver is still, still going on." "That little girl in the muslim dress who appears twice at the church - that's Judita." "I shot that scene with my teeth clenched." "September 25, 1969" "I turned 34." "It was the biggest celebration ever." "Hanka came from Prague, lamps hung in the park, they roasted a pig on a spit, and shot fireworks into the air." "We went swimming in the morning." "On the way Hanka tore a ligament and was in a cast for 3 weeks." "September 25, 1 969" "I was terrified I wouldn't get away in time when those white-helmeted, club-bearing commandos came." "Tear gas exploded around us;" "I pulled Hanka over to a wall." "People ran headlong at machine guns aimed directly at them." "They chanted:" "Gestapo!" "Gestapo!" "Gestapo!" "A carrier came and forced the screaming crowd to move." "A white-helmeted man threw gas grenades from it like a machine." "They exploded in the crowd before hitting the ground." "June 27, 1969" "I have 5,000 feet." "We filmed the execution." "Everything's different." "The film is much heavier than I imagined." "I do what I can but that isn't much." "At least now I don't despair." "If I felt as nervous as I once did I'd be in the hospital now." "After scenes of shouting, anger, and hopelessness," "I realize I can't go for so long living only through my film." "I realize that every bit of footage depends on my condition." "It can't be any better than I am when I film it." "January 30th" "Art unions have become counterrevolutionary centers." "FlTES is a target Jan Kliment and others are trying to hit." "But the things they've come up with are asinine:" "that the unions are run by a few rightwing opportunists." "You don't hear the unions applauding the army presence." "Bruzek organized a petition but only well-known swine signed it." "It all ended when their goal was met, when a vast majority of artists support the prudent politics of the new regime." "September 25, 1 969" "Filming began on March 5th and ended on September 1 0th." "It took 1 89 days." "The last sounding of the clapperboard was #3266." "Barrandov Studios had never had so many before." "There was frost and snow;" "it melted; trees bloomed;" "school ended; blueberries grew;" "and still we filmed." "My odometer reads 14,000 miles." "It's over." "Gulliver is over." "That terrible dream is fulfilled but I lost Veronika and Judita." "Tanks surrounded Wenceslas Square, a shot awoke me..." "Stunned soldiers were ordered to shoot one August morning..." "I cried under the covers at the Munich YMCA so Pavel Landovsky wouldn't hear and console me, saying I hadn't lost Judita." "At times I believed I'd never return to Czechoslovakia." "This isn't history." "We experience a caricature of history." "Less than two years have elapsed since January 1 968." "Still, that time is filled with phantasmagoric scenes." "The truth twists like a drunk's gut." "Concepts lose meaning." "I watch Gulliver with amazement;" "it's like looking into a mirror." "I wrote the script in 1966, and I haven't changed the words, but the world I see on the screen is 1969." "I finished a clean cut yesterday and am preparing the post-sync." "I shyly view the final dialogue:" "I say:" "Is this clock going in reverse or does it just seem so?" "He rejoins:" "What is it with you?" "Isn't it enough to hear it tick?" "October 29, 1 969" "Judita has returned after nine months." "She's written me." "It's from a different world." "A few scrawled, dictated words." "A seven-year-old can't say much." "By the time she's ten she won't speak Czech." "On her card I sometimes see, as if it could tell me," "Why did it all happen?" "October 29, 1 969" "Gulliver will probably be banned." "No one yet knows how tough the censorship will be." "Things were clear under Novotny." "I couldn't care less if Gulliver makes it to theaters." "Some people can't understand my attitude at all." "It's hard to explain that I made Gulliver for myself, that I'm only vaguely interested what happens to it now." "In a month Gulliver will exist without me and I without it." "RELEASE ONLY with permission" "1 2:30 AM" "When Jires saw Gulliver he said:" "The film proves that Pavel is too smart to make films." "He thought intelligence and reason couldn't make good films." "S'is said, That's one hell of a film." "It's a wonder you managed it because it was literally made with Buddhist will and humility." "And Vlacil:" "It's such a lovely film even Dubcek would ban it." "I'm satisfied." "No more problem." "Gulliver has become my shadow and thus can't be outstepped." "February 19, 1971" "It's worse and worse." "Hard to know where the path we've chosen leads." "Somewhere they decided to forget an entire generation." "Functionaries have come with a precise liquidation program." "Purs has replaced Polednak, Stastny" " Harnach, Toman" " Kunc." "Common sense rejects the idea, but these 3 men work tirelessly to liquidate Czechoslovak film." ""It's an empty bubble we'll soon blow away," says Ludv'ik Toman." "They cut ties to big festivals and lowered director's fees." "They've divided us into three groups according to character:" "The first may continue working, the second must show they've come to their senses, the third will be kicked out." "When Toman visited our group he said he wanted to be fair." "He admitted his wife really liked Chytilova's film." "He paused, then said:" "But my wife's an intellectual." "silence!" "filming in PROGRESS" "March 15, 1970" "I don't want to die at 35." "Hanka's going to have a baby." "Nothing interests me anymore;" "I sleep and sleep, and drink." "But the baby, the little worm in Hanka's belly..." "The one I keep saying I'm looking forward to..." "No one will ever take it away as they did Judita." "If it's a girl I like to name her Judita." "But they say that's bad luck." "My older brother, Pavel, lived only a few days." "My dad defied fate and decided to name me Pavel too." "Why couldn't there be two Juditas?" "Poor things..." "To have such a damned father." "9:15 PM The 14th Party Congres" "Last Saturday Jan Kliment wrote in the Party newspaper:" ""Things once given the go-ahead have finished playing a part." "Those who've seen talented young director Juracek's film," "Case for a Rookie Hangman, would hardly recommend it for a festival of humanistic film."" "Though both young and talented, I've finished playing my part." "It is no exaggeration to assert that they plan nothing less than the thorough elimination of culture." "Yes, I know: they don't want to eliminate culture;" "Toman doesn't want to destroy film." "They simply don't know what culture and film are." "December 9, 1970" "I'm being pushed into undertaking a plain existence." "I expect to be working with my hands." "I'm sad." "I think about Hanka and the little stinker." "For a year I've lounged around reading papers and books." "Evenings I gape at the TV;" "I'm interested in nothing." "Poor Hanka..." "July 3, 1971" "THURSDAY (BLACK)" "Thursday, the directors were vetted." "Toman was there with squinty eyed Mares and one Vacul'ik." "I later learned he was the new program director, a former house painter." "The makeup artists had a far more serious commission." "As I entered, Toman told the secretary to read the ruling." "This is roughly what I heard:" "Pavel Juracek, FAMU graduate, began at the Studio in 1961." "In 1968-69 he worked closely with FlTES." "He lead an experimental creative group, responsible for, among others, the film Larks on a String." "He signed the '2,000 Words' petition and left the Party." "He doesn't hide his rightwing revisionist ideas, demonstrated even by how he fills out forms." "The commission thus recommends that Barrandov Film Studios terminate his contract." "She finished reading and stared at her pad of paper." "The others stared, too;" "at anything but me." "I went to Broz's group." "Makovec, Hynek Bocan, Kalabova, and Vera Pl'ivova were waiting." "Within 1 5 minutes the news arrived that I was the only director who Toman's commission had fired." "September 21, 1971" "Around August 12th Hvezda Theater began showing" "Case for a Rookie Hangman twice a day." "I was amazed as more and more people wanted to see Gulliver." "By the end of the week it was selling out." "And then the amazing happened:" "they held it over another week." "So it played on August 21 st, the day the Russians came." "That day people clapped during and after the film." "Now the police are investigating." "A Party committee is calling witnesses to find the culprit." "August 3, 1971" "They're making a leper of me, someone to avoid." "Jan Nemec was interrogated by the secret police." "Evidently they discussed me, said I was the ideologist and inspiration for the new wave." "They say I'll work no more;" "that vainly I'm hoping to live writing unofficial scripts." "I now understand the generally accepted logic:" "my dismissal is proof of a lenient regime." "Well, they only threw Juracek out!" "They're good people." "January 26, 1972" "Recently a Munich paper ran:" "'Wie komme ich zum Zirkus?" "'" "Judita wrote it." "I see a picture of a girl I no longer even recognize." "The caption reads:" "Judita beim lnterview mit Christine Sembach-Krone." "She was ten on January 3rd." "She no longer writes Czech." "February 1 5-1 6, 1 973" "I have obsessive thoughts of suicide." "I'm up against a wall." "People tap me on the shoulder:" "You're cool, you're the man." "Bullshit." "I'm sick, and lack the 20 crowns Hanka needs for milk and bread." "She hates me." "She hides cigarettes and coffee from me." "I read and soon forget." "I sleep to pretend time moves faster." "This has gone on three years." "At the clinic today I explained my situation." "Work, money, pheumetrazine, Hanka..." "The doctor said, Mr. Juracek, I can't help you." "It's not in my power to cure society's ills." "September 25, 1971" "For Christ's sake, I'd like to stop." "Always returning to the same few months of my life." "But we'll always be the generation of 1 968." "When Marek's bigger he'll roll his eyes when Hanka and I start talking about hearing Pavel Landovsky's voice beneath our window at 2 AM on August 21 st..." "Marek was born two years later." "It will never be his history." "I've collected many clippings and photos from that time." "But it's foolish of me." "Why would it excite or even interest him at all?" "Toman's decided to make a film about us - the new wave." "It's to be called Factory of lllusions." "He's using excerpts of 1 2 films, Gulliver among them." "In it, a young director will fritter away state money." "Only 1968's 'Soviet liberation' will end his dubious career." "One day we'll thank Toman for this film." "In our wildest dreams, could we 30-year-olds ever have imagined that a film would be made about us?" "Subtitled by John Brent"