The Sun in a Net

The Sun in a Net Slnko v sieti, also translated as Sunshine in a net or Catching the sun in a net is a 1963 film that became a key film in the development of Slovak and Czechoslovak cinema from the mandated SocialistRealist filmmaking of the repressive 1950s towards the CzechoslovakCzech New Wave and socially critical or experimental films of the 1960s marked by a gradual relaxation of communist control. The Sun in a Net received multiple votes in a wide survey of Czech and Slovak film academics and critics in the late 1990s asking them for their lists of thebest films in the history of filmmaking in the former Czechoslovakia.

The solar eclipse barely discerned by the main characters through thick clouds at the beginning of the film is echoed by summer and fall images of the sun as they present themselves to all of them at various points in the film through a fishermans net from his pontoon on the Danube beyond the citys suburbs, which Fajolo and Peo have discovered independently and use as a swimming deck, a place to ponder life, or to try to seduce Bela. When, however, Bela brings her mother and brother Milo Peter Lobotka to the pontoon after a series of subdued interpersonal crises, the pontoon is on dry land because the water level has dropped, and the film ends with Bela and Milo lying to their mother about what they can see as they did about the visibility of the eclipse during the opening sequences.Uher chose little known actors Elika Nosov and Andrej Vandlk, both from the SNP Theater in Martin or nonactors, two of whom had to be dubbed by Michal Doolomansk, a student of acting and later a star of Slovak cinema, and by Viliam Polnyi, a professional actor. Only ubo Roman, a student of acting at that time, became a successful actor, theater administrator, and ultimately a politician. Jana Belkov from a singers family had marginal experience from several TV productions and followed her role in The Sun in a Net with a singing career. ........

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