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Czech Dream Reviews

2005

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A funny and provocative look at the world of contemporary media manipulation illustrated by a hoax from two film students on an unsuspecting public in the Czech Capital, Prague. Impressed by the escalation in the growth of hypermarkets in the last five years the students set out to explore the psychological and manipulative .. Read more

Starring	Vit Klusak, Filip Remunda
Director	Vit Klusak, Filip Remunda
Genres	Documentary, World Cinema

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  - 9
  Czech Please!!
  
  This docu-film is superb! i needn't say anymore.... but i will! The two students who set up this 'scam' hadn't really thought about the ... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Stephen Daniels
  - Swindon
  - 03 Nov 2005 at 12:28
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  - 0
  Czech Dream
  
  Wasn't sure when I read the synopsis, felt it could go either way really. Was well impressed after watching it though, a unique idea that is executed really... read more »
  
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- - CeeJizzle
  - 1 review
  - Cheshire
  - 14 Apr 2010 at 12:23
- - 1
  - 0
  more clever than laugh out loud funny
  
  this is a clever - almost semi academic - investigation into the power of advertising and the trustworthiness of the masses (or at least a proportion of them). ... read more »
  
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- - majortom2001
  - 67 reviews
  - Worthing, UK
  - 03 Oct 2009 at 16:50
- - 0
  - 4
  Dream shattered by this film!
  
  Yo undergraduates, you have already made one egregious error by choosing media studies/communication at university and not English Lit or History! Now you make ... read more »
  
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  - Oxford
  - 14 Sep 2008 at 21:00
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  Customer Review
  
  "Czech Dream" is less of a film and more of a documentary about a grand scale practical joke played on the Czech people by two student film makers. ... read more »
  
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  - UK
  - 23 Jun 2008 at 15:22
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  - 1
  There's a message in there somewhere
  
  Well, I'm not sure many people outside the Czech Republic have ever heard of this film! It's mildly interesting, trying to copy Michael Moore. They want... read more »
  
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  - Redhill
  - 22 Apr 2008 at 18:01
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  - 0
  Czech documentary
  
  Great documentary. It shows who stupid we are and how much of our thinking we leave to the media to do for us.
  
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- - Miguelon
  - 1 review
  - London
  - 01 Mar 2008 at 12:31
- - 0
  - 0
  One to see
  
  An innovative study of human behaviour in the face of advertising, this documentary details the working operations of the advertising industry and the way ... read more »
  
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- 472749
- - a customer
  - Essex, England
  - 06 Sep 2007 at 21:52
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  - 1
  Czech Con
  
  2 Czech film students decide that for their final project they will build the front of a fake hypermarket, Cesky Sen, (Czech Dream) in a meadow next to a car ... read more »
  
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- - Bill Johnson
  - Leamington Spa
  - 30 Apr 2007 at 08:02
- - 0
  - 0
  Not to be missed
  
  A really great insight into how advertising can affect people and ultimately make you go to the opening of a shop that is not even real, these czech students ... read more »
  
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  - cheltenham
  - 14 Feb 2007 at 18:33
- - 0
  - 0
  Commercial Advertising and Human Nature
  
  Subtitled as the first czech reality show, this documentary, made by two czech filmmakers/students is about advertising campaign to open a fictitous supermarket... read more »
  
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  - Cardiff
  - 13 Jan 2007 at 15:58
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- - 38
  - 9
  Czech Please!!
  
  This docu-film is superb! i needn't say anymore.... but i will! The two students who set up this 'scam' hadn't really thought about the ... read more »
  
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- 169538
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Stephen Daniels
  - Swindon
  - 03 Nov 2005 at 12:28
- - 10
  - 2
  Missed the point
  
  Centring on media manipulation, and how this translates to the public at large, this documentary follows an advertising campaign created for a Hypermarket that ... read more »
  
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- - James Robinson
  - Ipswich, England
  - 31 Dec 2005 at 20:05
- - 11
  - 6
  brilliant , thought provoking , genius!
  
  what a hoax!, there are so many messages and points being made by this film that it sometimes takes a while to digest but the intelligence behind it is ... read more »
  
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- - Mihailo Rnic
  - Bristol, England
  - 22 Nov 2005 at 14:06
- - 4
  - 0
  Stay with it
  
  Starts off a little gently but worth the effort. The film doesn't instruct and the 'leads' do not tell us but show us. Showing the poor getting ... read more »
  
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- 199873
- - a customer
  - UK
  - 29 Jan 2006 at 00:47
- - 4
  - 2
  They got the wrong guys
  
  great concept .. let's expose (western?) consumer greed .. great ad campaign but who got humiliated in the end .... the old, the poor, the stupid ... So ... read more »
  
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- - martyhar
  - 2 reviews
  - Twickenham
  - 22 Nov 2005 at 21:43
- - 2
  - 0
  OK
  
  This film/documentary is OK, it is quite an interesting observation of people, and Czech people. Worth watching, but i did'nt watch it all the way through. ... read more »
  
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- - R G James
  - London, England
  - 16 Dec 2005 at 11:48
- - 1
  - 0
  Fantastic
  
  Excellent film, frightening how susceptible we are to media & advertising, sheep by nature, drawn to the material world in the quest for happiness...
  
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  - London
  - 18 Jan 2006 at 10:05
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  Czech mate
  
  Interesting docu as described plenty of times above. 2 * is actually a bit harsh as this was engaging viewing, but although it is a fascinating picture of East ... read more »
  
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  - Bedfordshure
  - 07 Mar 2006 at 18:39
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  more clever than laugh out loud funny
  
  this is a clever - almost semi academic - investigation into the power of advertising and the trustworthiness of the masses (or at least a proportion of them). ... read more »
  
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- - majortom2001
  - 67 reviews
  - Worthing, UK
  - 03 Oct 2009 at 16:50
- - 0
  - 0
  Czech Out
  
  Interesting and rewarding documentary made by two students at the end of their studies.
  
  They use the advertising medium to whip up interest in a new ... read more »
  
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- 201263
- - a customer
  - Brighton England
  - 01 Feb 2006 at 14:02

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  A funny and provocative look at the world of contemporary media manipulation illustrated by a hoax from two film students on an unsuspecting public in the Czech Capital, Prague. Impressed by the escalation in the growth of hypermarkets in the last five years the students set out to explore the ...