O strihovom filme Nikdy viac z roku 1958 a jeho vplyve na ďalšie filmy

Abstract

The study explores a specific film form, i.e., compilation film in Slovakia after the Second World War. The author analyses the creation and means of expression of the film Nikdy viac [Never Again] (1958) by director Ctibor Kováč, while taking account of its period propaganda use. Historically, it is the first feature-length compilation film in Slovakia that consciously renounces staging techniques and reenactments, while placing emphasis mainly on the clippings of authentic news footage. These are combined with the reportages from the trials of the members of the Hlinka Guard Emergency Divisions, which took place in April 1958 in Bratislava and in Banská Bys trica in the presence of the general public. By fabricating an image of shame, the rep resentatives of the communist regime, backed by the media, ventured to reckon with the remnants of “clerofascism” that persisted in socialist society from the time of the Slovak Republic between 1939 – 1945. During the cold war, the politically motivated image was intended to demonstrate the determination of the representatives of pow er to take action against any internal or external enemy of the socialist establishment.