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66 SEASONS
66 SEZON



Peter Kerekes

Country of production: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Year: 2003
Language: Hungarian, Czech, Slovak
Mins: 86

Production company: Peter Kerekes, Slovak TV, Czech TV
Producer: Peter Kerekes
Script: Peter Kerekes
Cinematography: Martin Kollar
Editing: Marek Sulik
Sound: Jaro Majda, Peter Gajdos

Source: Kerekes, Peter
Vistuk 277, 900 85, Vistuk
Slovakia
Tel:+421 905-255-698
Fax: +421 33 6446-409
e-mail: kerekes@nextra.sk
www.66seasons.com


This documentary film about Stara Plovarna (Old Swimming Pool) in Kosice, where, in the words of the filmmaker, "...history came to bathe“, was made over the last three summer seasons. Seen through several stories unfolding between the years 1936 and 2002, the film captures 66 seasons at the popular swimming pool, and also the same number of years in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. The film is supported by the reminiscences of several visitors to the pool, which the film crew try to reconstruct years later. The swimming pool therefore acquires another metaphysical dimension – it resembles a model of the world where, with greater intensity, private stories merge with universal history (for example, the bombing of Kosice during the WWII or the Russian invasion of 1968). Different generations of swimmers replace one another over the course of the decades, but the craving for water as a place of absolute equality and also a source of security remains just as strong. Best Central European documentary film 2003 (ex aequo with Sentiment), Jihlava IDFF, Best Film DocAviv (Tel Aviv 2004).

Peter Kerekes born in 1973 in Košice, Slovakia. Graduated from Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Faculty of Film and Television, Bratislava.

FILMOGRAPHY

66 SEASONS (2003)
ZUZANA FROM 8 AM TO 5 PM (2000)
MORYTATS AND LEGENDS OF LADOMIROVÁ (1988)
ABOUT THREE DAYS IN MONASTERY JASOV (1966)
BALOG JOZSEF, PRÍBENNÍK 66 (1996)
A MAN ABOUT BOOK, A BOOK ABOUT MAN (1994)

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