Sands Films Studios Official AGM and visit
This event is for Sands Films Shareholders only. It includes a tour of Sands Films Studio followed by the Screening of The Good Soldier Schwejk
The day consists of an informal visit, talk and Q&A about the company’s result for 2018. We will talk about the year’s results over a cup of tea and cakes. The event is followed by screening of The Good Soldier Schwejk and those interested can reserve a seat using the link:
Please contact Sands Films studios if you are interested in becoming a shareholder and attending the events.
About Sands Films
Sands Films has some 500 small shareholders who, jointly, own the company and its assets. Together they protect the property from being an object of speculation and thereby guarantee the existance of the company. Their role and function is vital to Sands Films which is a very stable company, trading for over 40 years, but which doesn’t provide high yield. Β
The Good Soldier Schwejk screening
There will be a screening of Sands Films’ last production “The Good Soldier Schwejk”
The film is just under two hours long.
It
is very much by design that the subject of this film adaptation of
Jaroslav HaΕ‘ek’s novel βThe adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejkβ is a
piece of theatre, a play with live music and a very present audience.
After all, the first.appearance of the preposterous soldier Schwejk was
in a cabaret sketch in Prague.
Enriched with HaΕ‘ek’s own experience of World War One, and of the
crumbling administration of the Hapsburg Empire, Schwejk became the
legendary hero of HaΕ‘ek’s sprawling novel. Soon, however, he was lured
back to the theatre,.in Piscator’s version in Berlin (1928), in Joan
Littlewood’s adaptation in Manchester 1939, London 1954 and Brecht’s
reworking of 1943: always the theatre. Schwejk just won’t be parked in
History. So here he is again, still in the theatre.
Maybe there just is no better way to put a point across than the
immediacy of a live performance, where speech is king, always fleeting
and always renewed, and where there can be such intimacy with the
audience: the theatre.
But who is that Schwejk? A Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army,
who is soon to outgrow the time and place of his creation, he has been
described by some as a relation to Sancho Panza or Candide, by others as
a symbol of common man, by himself as an idiot, an official idiot. He
gets into all manner of scrapes, and out of them again, on the fringe of
an incomprehensible war. He doggedly follows instructions with such
zeal that their absurdity shines. He has a taste for extreme logic. Like
common man, he is full of contradictions, and like common man, he has a
stubborn resistance to injustice.
Apropriated after Hasek’s death by Josef Lada, the illustrator of the
novel, (and by later mythology) Schwejk took the cartoonish shape of his
creator as he stumbles into the absurdity of war.
But the real life inspiration for Schwejk was a deliriously talkative
23 year old with innocent eyes, and a taste for extreme logic, the
batman to the real life Lt. Lucas So here he is again, a deliriously
talkative 23 year old with innocent eyes .and a taste for extreme logic,
who stumbles, again, on the utter absurdity of war.
Location
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