Veteran Czech director Jan Nemec once again uses vintage footage of the Soviet invasion of Prague (formerly used in Oratorio For Prague) in his quietly brilliant autobiographical documentary The Ferrari Dino Girl. Tracing Nemec’s shooting of the 1968 footage and its subsequent smuggling out of the country, Ferrari Dino Girl not only boasts a stunning, uninterrupted sequence of the original footage but also frequently amusing reconstructions of how it came about. This forms the final part of an autobiographical trilogy Nemec began with Late Night Talks With Mother and continued with Landscape of My Heart.
Here Karel Roden stars as Nemec, armed with a camera as Soviet forces push into Prague. He subsequently shoots footage which opposes the Soviet line that their forces are being welcomed into Prague with open arms.Given Russia’s recent muscular foreign policy and increasing aggression in the region, Nemec’s archival footage resonates strongly in today’s geopolitical climate.
The title refers to a female travelling companion Nemec met while smuggling the footage from Prague into Vienna. She was a beautiful Czech ‘Brigitte Bardot’ which led Nemec to label her the Ferrari Dino Girl.
A natural fit for documentary sidebars but also could sync with films-on-filmmaking section.
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