Vyhnanice a jejich role v počátcích kolektivizace
Vyhnanice and its role in the beginnings of the collectivisation

Summary/Abstract: In 1952, the directing team of Karel Kachyňa and Vojtěch Jasný made the feature-length film Neobyčejná léta Extraordinary Years), which focused on the creation and development of the Integrated Agricultural cooperative (JZD) in Vyhnanice, south Bohemia. The picture became a model of the use of propaganda on the road to collectivising agriculture. The question is how the small community found itself in the view finders of the young directors, how it got onto the big screen. This study examines the municipality in the normalisation era, outlining the fates of its inhabitants and the brutal change of its ownership and social structures in the 1950s.

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