简介：1961年嘎纳电影节金棕榈提名，斯洛伐克新浪潮的先声。 TheMay1961premiereofTheSongoftheGrayDove(Piesenosivomholubovi,1960)directedbyStanislavBarabas(1924-1994)markedthestartoffilmmakers'useofideologicallyunassailablethemes(inthiscase,theSlovakNationalUprising)totellstoriesthatweretrue-to-lifeandyetwerefilmedcreatively.TheSongoftheGrayDoverejectedthenarrativetopicslovedbyPaloBielik,whowasthemostcreativememberofthefoundinggenerationoffilmmakers.Byusingboysashisheroes,Barabaswasabletoconcentratemoreonchildren’sfears,games,andhappiness,whichhadnotvanishedevenduringthewaryears,ratherthanonreeducatingviewers.Criticstooknoticeofthefilm(itwonthe1961CzechoslovakFilmCritics'AwardtogetherwiththeCzechfilmPeopleLiveHereToo[Vsudezijílidé;dir.JiríHanibalandStepánSkalsky,1960)becauseofitsintimatestorytelling—sixstorieslooselyconnectedbychild-heroes—anditspremisethatchildren’sdistortedrealitycanbemoretruthfulthanaso-calledobjectivereconstructionofhistory.Criticsalsonotedthatthefilmwasnotwithouthope,despiteitstragicending.…