The Ferrari Dino Girl

Running time: 70 mins

On August 20th, 1968, invading Soviet and Warsaw Pact tanks rolled through the streets of Prague, and Jan Němec was in the streets, filming.

Determined that the world see what was happening, he and a couple of friends ? including the titular ?Ferrari Dino Girl? ? smuggled his precious footage out of the country. Forty years later, he tells the tale.

One of the Czech New Wave?s most maverick directors, Němec?s Diamonds of the Night (1964) and A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966) ? two of the movement?s most memorable and daring films ?still astound viewers today. Since leaving Czechoslovakia, he has not stopped making fascinating personal films that defy easy categorization. Now returned to the Czech Republic, his latest film, a ?strangely direct and authentic document of one of the century?s key events,? (Peter Hames, London IFF) is among his best. It is safe to say you have probably never seen another quite like it.

? Charlie Cockey