
Stories about seven friends in a small Moravian village following the socialization of Czechoslovakia in 1948, developing gradually into the story of Frantiek, the resister. The film offers some direct political criticism, particularly of the process of collectivizing agriculture. After the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, it was promptly banned.... (Full plot summary below)
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Stories about seven friends in a small Moravian village following the socialization of Czechoslovakia in 1948, developing gradually into the story of Frantiek, the resister. The film offers some direct political criticism, particularly of the process of collectivizing agriculture. After the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, it was promptly banned.
Leave your thoughts about All My Good Countrymen.
| The SkinnyLewis PorteousAll My Good Countrymen is buoyed by reckless energy and wonder, yet is notably the work of an established master. |
| User ReviewJohn WLovely film about communism in Czechoslovakia after World War II, an era my wife's grandparents lived through. |
| User ReviewJim PBeautiful, darkly humorous, and deeply - yet subtly - subversive. Anyone wanting to make political statements in their films needs to study this masterpiece. |
| User ReviewCleo Wfound this wonderful movie at the library. It capture the development and changes in a Moravian village during a period from the end of World War II to the beginning of the 1960s. |
| User ReviewMichael PArtsy but very aware of the human condition. |