We Want to Die

A poetic story of a proletarian couples relationship during the years of economic crisis and unemployment of all the films directed by E F Burian the film Chceme žít We Want to Live 1949 is probably his worst The intention to create a powerful work of cinema that would combine modern means of expression with the ideological canons of socialist realism failed completely Ježek and Tarnovski discovered these shambles and tried to rebuild a structure out of the hopelessness and futility of life Ježek has photochemically transcribed selected passages with the greatest possible degree of humility towards the work of the great avantgardist Tarnovski similarly makes the soundtrack visible The improvised encounter of sound and image in dialogic mode can lead to various misunderstandings resulting in ambiguous compromise