‘Ekstase (Ecstasy) - Gustav Machatý’

With an introduction by Šárka Gmiterková (assistant professor at the Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic).

Screening followed by a debate with Šárka Gmiterková and Jitka Pánek Jurková themed: "Female nudity on the silver screen from 1930s to the age of #MeToo" in which the audience can engage.​​​​​​​

Ecstasy is probably the most famous film in the history of Czech cinema. Gustav Machatý’s film follows Eva, a young bride living her first passion, not with her elderly husband Emil, but with Adam, a handsome construction engineer. To portray this simple story, Machatý and his cinematographer, Jan Stallich, deployed a wealth of ingenuity and set the intrigue to music by Giuseppe Becce, one of the most talented film composers at the time.
​​​​​​​Newly restored by the Czech National Film Archive, the film premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Restored Film.