A Few Good Men, A Few Good Filmmakers: Producing Smugglers of Death and Searching for a New Model of Socialist Cinema, 1957-1959

Abstract

The chapter explores the production history of Smugglers of Death (1959) and positions it within broader efforts within the state-controlled film monopoly to develop a new model of attractive, genre filmmaking while maintaining ideological imperatives of state-socialism.

Keywords

• film production
• Smugglers of Death
• Karel Kachyňa
• Czechoslovak cinema
• socialist film