Video Kings
2020•1h 22m•8.5•Released
Documentary
Copying videos illegally on a mass scale is one thing, but making a marketable product out of them is quite another. Just think of the most basic problem: language – your average customer won’t be a polyglot! The answer to that problem all over Central and Eastern Europe was a practice called rychlodabing, or speed dubbing in Czech, which consisted of one sole actor voicing all characters, with the original voices usually still audible beneath. This is how millions of people in the ČSSR encountered many forms of cinema for the first time in the 1980s, and how many foreign words became lodged (in a corrupted fashion) in everyday language. Some expressions (often curse words) were born. That’s popular culture at its liveliest. Video Kings is an oral history monument to the art of rychlodabing and some of its masters, as well as a collective reminiscence from a time of political transformation, and how ordinary people were agents of that change in extraordinary ways.
Director
Lukáš Bulava
Writer
Petr Svoboda, Lukáš Bulava
Budget
$0M
Languages
Czech, Slovak
Studio
Atractive production
Cast
Ondřej Hejma
Zdeněk Troška
Roman Holý
František Fuka
Dana Hábová
Ondřej Neff
Petr Šaroch
Jozef Šedý
Pavel Hewlit
Miroslav Táborský
Commentary (voice)
Production
Company
Atractive production
Company
Blackout productions
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