I'll Be Good From Now On, Grandpa

Darvas à rpád

Publication Date: 1980

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Size: A1 1 Sheet (cca. 84 x 59 cm). Interesting surreal poster by rp d Darvas from the 1980 s The poster was made for a Czechoslovakian movie original title J uz budu hodn dedecku Darvas s design shows how he turned to painting in the late 1970 s and early 1980 s and how he was fond of surreal images and shocking associations The composition refers to the movie s Hungarian title which can be translated as My God we are human A commentary on the imdb com tells about the cultural and historical context of the movie Well there is a certain brand of movies written explicitly for a single actor or pair of actors to showcase their talents The movie star s name here is Milo Kopeck one of the most beloved of Czech comedic actors of any time Possibly a choleric person in his own right and perhaps also due to that suffering from heavy depressions in his real life Would there have been anyone more qualified to play a choleric person on the Czech big screen Definitely not Kopeck is the person to do that and so his friend director and screenwriter Petr Schulhoff wrote this movie for Kopeck directly can you say tailor made Just as Kopeck was brilliant as an actor he was controversial as a public person first in the early 1970s he lent his talents to the Communist propaganda regime in a series of despicable documentaries only to make a sharp U turn in the late 1980s and deliver one of the most famous and memorable anti regime speeches illicitly disseminated across Czechoslovakia as official media would not dare to broadcast it This was well before the 1989 Velvet Revolution so Kopeck was putting his career at stake by speaking up I ll Be Good From Now On Grandpa is the English translation of the strange movie title but not strange for the director Petr Schulhoff as he apparently revelled in exactly this type of convoluted titles used for his 1970s comedies There is something of a separate genre in the Czech 1970s movie making normalisation comedies a derogatory title denoting the era of what the hard line Communist regime back then termed normalisation in their Newspeak this signified a retreat from Czechoslovakia s democratic tendencies of the late 1960s source imdb com. Seller Inventory # 490

Bibliographic Details

Title: I'll Be Good From Now On, Grandpa

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Paper, offset lithography.

Condition: Near mint.