From 23 September to 1 October 2020, the retrospective will be held in memory of a classic film director of the Czechoslovak “new wave” cinema Jiří Menzel, who passed away on 5 September at the age of 82. In the frames of five film screenings organized by the film club of the JINR Member States, 6 most renowned films by Jiří Menzel, including his Academy award-winning movie “Ostře sledované vlaky” (Czechoslovakia, 1966, 92 min.), will be shown. Films will be demonstrated in original language with Russian subs.

On 23 September and 1 October, screenings will be preceded with a lecture about the life and art of Jiří Menzel. The lecture will be read by a movie scholar and an expert in Czechoslovak cinema Victoria Levitova.

Retrospective screenings of films by Jiří Menzel are organized by the film club of the JINR Member States and will be simultaneously held in Dubna and Moscow. The Dubna sites for film screenings will be Blokhintsev Universal Public Library (13, Blokhintsev str.) and the JINR Cultural Centre “Mir” (1, Vysotsky alley). Screening in Moscow will be organized in the Moscow Tretyakov Gallery that is a partner of the film club of the JINR Member States along with the Czech Cultural Centre and the Slovak Institute in Moscow.

The author of graphical design of the retrospective (posters and brochures about life and art of J. Menzel in Russian) is a classic of Russian design Petr Bankov.

• Screenshot from “Umřel nám pan Foerster”(Czechoslovakia, 1963, 14 min.)
• Scrinshot from “Ostře sledované vlaky” (Czechoslovakia, 1966, 92 min.)
• Screenshot from “Skřivánci na niti” (Czechoslovakia, 1969, 90 min.)
• Screenshot from “Postřižiny” (Czechoslovakia, 1980, 93 min.)
• Screenshot from “Vesničko má středisková” (Czechoslovakia, 1985, 98 min.)
• Screenshot from “Konec starých časů” (Czechoslovakia, 1989, 93 min.)