Happy Together
General Information
- Author/Creator
- director Dlouhý, Saša.
- Language
- Czech, Chinese.
- Subtitles
- English
- Published
- Czech Republic : freeSaM : Česká televize, 2014.
- Physical Description
- DVD (75 min.)
- Digital ver. identifier
- HU_OSA_00005771
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- Somewhere in China, there is a small town called Estate of Chinese-Czechoslovak Friendship. In the 1950s, farmers from Czechoslovakia brought tractors and other farming equipment to China as a way of promoting friendship between socialist countries. Local inhabitants remember this still today, and to honour that historic time, they are even building their own small "Chinese Prague" in a new part of the town. In order to promote friendship between nations, young Czech sinologist, Tomáš Jirsák, alias Havran [Czech for "Raven"], arrives to this "Chinese Prague" together with his wife and three children and establishes a Department of Czech Studies at a local university. We witness the adaptation of a deeply religious family to a new environment and learn details from typical life in the world's most populous country. These include different customs, different culture and pervasive industrial pollution, but we also witness a desire to take on large tasks and non-traditional raising of sons.
Subjects
- Genre
- Documentary films
Bibliographic Information
- Library Special Collection
- Verzio Film Festival Submission
Holdings
| Item Type | Current Location | Call Number | Status | Shelving Location | Public Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DVD-ROM | OSA Film Library | FL Record 4023 | Available | - | |
| Digital film | OSA Film Library | FL Record 4023 (HU_OSA_00005771.mp4) | Available | Access Copy, MP4 format |