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Deckert Distribution presents:
66 Seasons

66 Sezón

Director:
Peter Kerekes

Production:
Peter Kerekes in co-production with Slovenská televízia and Ceská televize

Slovakia 2003
Format:
35 mm 
58 / 66 / 86 min


This documentary film about the Old Swimming Pool in Košice, where the history came to bathe, was made over the summer seasons 2000 to 2002. Seen through several stories which unfolded between the years 1936 and 2002, the film captures 66 seasons at the popular swimming pool, and also the same number of years in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. The film is supported by the reminiscences of several visitors to the "Céhácko", as the pool was known, which the film crew try to reconstruct years later. The swimming pool thus acquires another metaphysical dimension - it resembles a model of the world where, with greater intensity, private stories merge with universal history. Different generations of swimmers replaced one another over the course of the decades, only the craving for water as a place of absolute equality and also a source of security remains just as strong.

Original Language:
Hungarian, Slovak, Czech

English Subtitles

Festival Selection:
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2003
IDFA 2003

International
Documentary Film Festival Jihlava 2003
Febiofest 2004
DocAviv 2004

Awards:
Prize Kristian for the Best Documentary Film Febiofest 2004
Prize for the Best Central European Documentary  at 7th International
Documentary Film Festival Jihlava
Best Film Award at DocAviv 2004
Award for Best European Film at Syracuse Film and Video Festival
2004
Grand Prix at Mediawave Festival Györ 2004
"Best Director"
Award at Punto del Vista Festival Pamplona

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