TY - GEN N1 - p. 75-102 N1 - Abstract in Polish and English. N2 - Kachyňa’s "Smugglers of Death", first screened in Polish cinemas in 1960, was considered by critics as one of the top achievements of Czechoslovak film-making. Their focus, however, was on the entertainment and technical aspects of the work (treating it as a successful, ambitious genre film), glossing over its genesis, ideological content and political message. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, "Smugglers of Death", along with such pictures as "Romeo, Juliet and Darkness" by Jiří Weiss and "Invention for Destruction" by Karel Zeman, became one of the most highly rated and most extensively discussed Czechoslovak films in the Polish press. Yet in the meantime, Polish film critics (who gave surprisingly low ratings to "Hic Sunt Leones" by Václav Krška and "At the Terminus" by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos) overlooked or downplayed the importance of the “thaw-era” pictures produced by the Czechoslovak First Wave, which burst the socialist realism straitjacket and experimented with new language and contemporary topics in the late 1950s. L1 - http://www.rcin.org.pl/Content/150911/PDF/WA303_184034_A453-SzDR-55-3-SI_Szymanski.pdf M3 - Text J2 - Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, Vol. 55, No 3 (2020), Special Issue PY - 2020 IS - 3 EP - 102 KW - Král Šumavy (Motion picture : 1959) KW - motion pictures - Czechoslovakia - history and criticism KW - communism and motion pictures - Czechoslovakia KW - Kachyňa, Karel (1924-2004) KW - film criticism - Poland - history - 1945-1990 KW - motion pictures - distribution - Poland - history - 1945-1990 KW - critical reception of films in Poland KW - Smugglers of Death (Král Šumavy) KW - First Wave in Czechoslovak cinema KW - Polish film criticism KW - distribution of films in Poland KW - genre cinema A1 - Szymański, Karol A2 - Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk VL - 55 CY - Warszawa SP - 75 T1 - Overrated and overlooked : the critical reception of Czechoslovak cinema in Poland in the 1950s and 1960s based on Karel Kachyňa’s Smugglers of Death UR - http://www.rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/150911 ER -