The Swimmers

May 26, 2022

0h 12m

★ 0.0

Overview

History, work, sex, cinema, death and my older brother. An essay on what swimming pools mean in culture and the collective memories we have about them. Inspired by Ed Ruscha's swimming pool photographs.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

Narrador

Giancarlo Protti

Limpia piscinas

Pablo Mora

Madre

Helena Baruch

The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?

2.0

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2.7

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5.2

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7.1

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0.0

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Feb 23, 1968

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5.0

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0.0

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5.7

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4.8

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2.0

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0.0

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10.0

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0.0

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Dec 23, 2024

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Quite a few years have passed since November 1989. Czechoslovakia has been divided up and, in the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus’s right-wing government is in power. Karel Vachek follows on from his film New Hyperion, thus continuing his series of comprehensive film documentaries in which he maps out Czech society and its real and imagined elites in his own unique way.

8.0

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0.0

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5.9

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