Reflection
6.9
“A multilayered documentary film draws the viewer into a hospital environment, where we meet not only patients, with their fears, pains, and joys, but also doctors.”
A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and death, set amidst complex hospital apparatus and the sadness, hope, or resignation of the patients. Existentialist rather than optimist, the approach is one of humanistic atheism, accepting death as part of life. Interviews with doctors and nurses explore their outlook; all speak of death as a fact, without either sentimentality or religiosity. The studied objectivity of the film only imperfectly hides an intense emotionality.
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Evald Schorm Director · Jan Špáta Screenplay Jan Klusák Composer
First release September 1, 1965 · Produced in XC · Working title Život
Production
Krátký film Praha – Studio dokumentárních filmů
Production
XC
Produced in
Život
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Original title
Zrcadlení
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech
Release dates
Italy · September 1, 1965
Premiere · Venice Film Festival
XC · April 1, 1966
Theatrical · Together with Bloudění
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