Prefabricated Houses

Prefabricated Houses

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A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings, symbolizing the obsolete past, alternate with shots of construction sites for new prefabricated apartment buildings. In spite of certain unavoidable propagandistic overtones added by the director, it is notable as the beginning of his search for a “dramaturgy of colors.”

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Khrushchevkas, sometimes colloquially known as commie blocks, are a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick three- to five-storied apartment buildings which were designed and constructed in the Soviet Union since the early 1960s.

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