Abstract
The chapter is based on the question of how film propaganda can work with the representation of a modern man's private space. It focuses on a sample of Czech feature films from the first ten years after the nationalization of the Czechoslovak film industry in 1945.
The analysis of selected films confirms the precondition of programmatic manipulation with the border between private and public space in accordance with the doctrines of the socialist realism and the idea of collectivism. However, there are another characteristic features as the exploitation of traditional models of home or interpersonal relationships (as in the films "Pan Novák" or "Bylo to v máji") and relatively early efforts to revise and rethink the doctrinal approach (in "Nechte to na mně" and "Roztržka").