Following the socialization of Czechoslovakia in 1948, a series of magical and humorous events happen to various residents of a small Moravian village. Director Vojtech Jasny, called "the spiritual father of the Czech New Wave" by Milos Forman, fled Czecholslovakia following the completion of this film. It was also one of the last films completed in the country prior to the Russian invasion in 1968.

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Copyright 1987, Vojtech Jasny.

DVD Features:

Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital - Czech
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Interviews: Vojtech Jasny - Director
Interactive Features:
Scene Selection
Additional Products:
Collectible - Booklet

Distributor Notes: One of the wonders of the Czech New Wave, All My Good Countrymen is also one of the least-known films from this miraculous era of Czech filmmaking. The reason is obvious: completed barely before the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, it was immediately banned and never shown. Despite this, the film won the Special Jury Prize of the Cannes Film Festival, and stylistically is a work of great lyricism, humor and originality. It weaves magical--and very funny--stories about a group of characters in a small Moravian village, immediately following the socialization of Czechoslovakia in 1948. "The film and the milieu it so precisely evokes are not so much nostalgic as they are powerfully remembered and irrevocably lost....All My Good Countrymen reflects the curdled fury of a former true believer" (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice).

Source: Facets Multi-Media Inc.

Vlastimil Brodsky: Czech Actor
Vladimir Mensik: Czech Actor
Radoslav Brzobohaty: 
Pavel Pavlovsky: 

Voltech Jasny: Director, BROKEN SILENCE

"...A historic film for both its extraordinary poetic and social qualities and its position as the masterpiece of Vojtech Jasny..."