Join us to find out what it’s like to stand on stage next to a famous movie star, how to cope with simultaneous interpretation of a film, why it’s so hard to translate film subtitles, and how film brings us closer to other nations and cultures. Interpreter and translator Helena Koutná shares her experiences before the screening of the Czechoslovak New Wave classic, Ivan Passer’s Intimate Lighting.
Evening with Helena Koutná: discussion followed by screening of Ivan Passer's Intimate Lighting.
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Helena Koutná is an interpreter and translator. She specializes in law and information technologies, translates film subtitles, and regularly works as an interpreter at European institutions in Brussels, Strasbourg, and Luxembourg. She has been known to audiences at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for more than 20 years now and also works for other festivals, including One World, Ji.hlava, Febiofest, and ÍRÁN:CI.
Intimate Lighting
Czechoslovakia, 1965, dir. Ivan Passer
Two friends and colleagues from the conservatory, meet in the town of Tábor in South Bohemia after many years. Karel, nicknamed Bambas during his studies, works as the director of a music school. Petr is to appear as a soloist in a concert of an amateur symphonic orchestra. Petr is accompanied by a young woman named Štěpa. Karel brings the guests into his little new villa and introduces Petr to his whole family. The years of separation, however, have brought some uncertainty into the relationship between the men. The whole day is marked by minor faux pas which escalate during a common lunch.
Screenwriter Ivan Passer, a collaborator of Miloš Forman’s, only made one feature film as director in Czechoslovakia. However, Intimní osvětlení (Intimate Lighting) (1965) is among the most highly rated Czech New Wave pictures. Unlike the films that Passer made after emigrating to the West, the unassuming cinema gem is an unalloyed example of a “non-genre”, casual approach.
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© Czech Film Fund, Source: Národní filmový archiv, Prague
© Czech Film Fund, Source: Národní filmový archiv, Prague
More about Helena Koutna here: https://english.radio.cz/my-prague-helena-koutna-8751166
