The Road That Leads Nowhere 60's Czech Music Film

[MichalFokt]

LOL Pacák jako herec! :-)

[pataphysician66]

Groovy! I lived there three years- '94-'97. In Prague, but I really wanted to live in Southern Bohemia

[joltinjoe86]

No a tohle bylo tabu!Co jim vadilo?Angličtina?Vždyt to poslouchaly taky!

[mghills]

Now that the Czech Republic is coming up to 20 years of independance, there is an upsurge of nostalgia (more of a tsunami, in fact)

BTW, I'm from Krnov, so I can fart in the Czech Republic and Poland gets to enjoy the smell!

The best (and cheapest) beer on earth - 1 UK pint costs around 80 pence, a pack of cigs 2 pounds.

[djanchovy]

Well by all means keep blowing those farts toward Poland! Just kidding! Are you Czech or an expat living there? I lived there also between '98-'03. Love the place!

[mghills]

I was born here in a little town called Šilheřovice.

The house is in the Czeh Republic and the outhouse in Poland, thus you needed your passport every time you needed to "knock a brick out"

[djanchovy]

Ha, that's great. You eat all that great Czech food, vepro/knedlo/zelo, Svickova, klobasa then you dump it on Poland! Your killing me! I lived in Prerov.

[mghills]

@pataphysician66

Not my passport, but we did have rationing from time to time.

98% of Cold War propaganda was bullshit, unfortunately there are some who still think the Cold War is still on the go! (Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck................)

[pataphysician66]

@mghills I know! It's the 1960's all over again! What fucking idiots Beck and Palin are!

[mghills]

@pataphysician66

Jaroslav Sladek - to call him an asshole is to insult Glutimus Maximus!

The (2nd) worst PM we had was Stanislav Gross - an ex-train driver.

What I can say that those who deride "socialism" don't even know the meaning of the word.

As for "Communism", what was practiced here was communist in name only and was just another way of the elite to control the plebiscite.

Now we have a different "them" but the same "us".

All political systems are prisons, only the bars are different.

[pataphysician66]

@mghills You got that right- Uncontrolled Capitalism has fucked the US up, and now it has spread to Europe. I remember seeing the results early on, when I saw homelessness on the streets of Prague. This was back in '94.

[mghills]

@pataphysician66

Ironically, I was born in Silverovice (18 km north of Ostrava on the border with Poland) which was also the home of the Rothschilds. Their castle is still there and used as a hotelliers school.

Old man Rothschild earned a great deal of respect as he made sure that he knew every one of his 3000+ employees and their families, and made sure they had no worries even in the hardest of times.

What other employer would do that now? Of course Hitler fucked that up.

[pataphysician66]

@mghills You got that right- Uncontrolled Capitalism has fucked the US up, and now it has spread to Europe. I remember seeing the results early on, when I saw homelessness on the streets of Prague. This was back in '94. I remember most Czechs I knew said "they called it the Communist Party, but it really was The Mafia". We have the same "them" and the same "us" and nothing is getting done.

[pataphysician66]

@mghills I know! It's the 1960's all over again! What fucking idiots Beck and Palin are! When I was living there, a lot of people spoke about surge of nostalgia for the "Good old" communist days. Mostly elderly people, from what I heard. I am glad to see The Czech Republic still independent. And that asshole Sladek (aka Mr. Bean) has gone back into obscurity. Was he ever a nutter!

[pataphysician66]

@mghills Did you have to have a border guard stamp your passport every time you had to pinch a loaf?

[KoivuTheHab]

Hah! Thats far from the cheapest beer on earth!!!

[thor1460]

are there any Czech beat compilations?

[djanchovy]

During the years 1995-2003 there were many CD reissues of classic Czech beat music. Nowadays not so many and alot of those CDs from '95-'03 are tough to find now. I just found one that took me 10 years to locate! Some stuff like the Matadors and Blue Effect are still in print.

[thor1460]

What are the names of some, so I can keep an eye out?

[djanchovy]

Matadors,Blue Effect,George & Beatovens, Synkopy 61, Flamengo, Atlantis, Collegium Musicum, Fermata, etc.

[JennKubie]

VYBORRRRRNE

[SydBarrett11]

Is there a posibility to get this magnificent film in higher quality?

[ACERAMGAD]

I like Moravia  the best!!!!!

[djanchovy]

Me too, Brno, Olomouc, Prerov, Zlin,etc.

[ACERAMGAD]

I have great love affair for Czech Republic!!! To much to say...

I know what I know.....I know a whole lot! Peace wink cheers!

[djanchovy]

Me too!!

[pivarius]

Film Cesta, která vede nikam, jsem viděl jen jednou, někdy krátce po revoluci. Je to špička. Pro milovníky 60. let doporučuji.

[djanchovy]

Glad you like it!!

[peles73]

Thank you. Unfortunatelly I don't understand the story, but the film is very interesting,and the music is avesome. Viewing this movie  seen what I knew: the Czech people is a people of talent. Respect!

[peles73]

When this film made? I think before the soviet invasion of '68?

[cherylharrell1961]

I just came across this & it's pretty neat. Glad it survived all those years. My dad's side of the family is Slovak & my grandparents & an Aunt & Uncle were born over there. So this kinda gives me an idea of where they came from.

[monstrman]

tak to jo na video jsem narazil nahodou a procitam si komentare a vydim ze si bydlel v Přerově,ja tam ziju celej zivot a nestezuju si.

lol i found this video and i read the comments and i discover that you lived in Přerov,i live ther all my life and i like it here.Greetings from CZ

[djanchovy]

Hello friend. Yes I lived in Prerov for almost 5 years. I visit there every year around November. I hang out at Bukacku and also 3 titties pub on Palacky ulice. Cheers!

[karelsidorjak]

I remember watching it years ago on czech tv / I am czech/ and I do dj on college radio here in Berkeley / KALX/. I would love to play this stuff ,so if you can posted it even without picture I can rip it from my computer...

Thanks again

Karel Sidorjak

[karelsidorjak]

Thanks so much for posting this....

Does anyone has a Synkopy 61 - VAlka je vul .. If yes,please, put it on or send it to me....

Thanks Djanchovy

[djanchovy]

I think I have the single Valka je vul, maybe I could post the music with a picture of the record. I don't recall seeing or having a video though.

[zepphed11]

how did u get it to be so long?

[chuckkottke]

I'm quite amazed that this was even allowed in the 60's behind the "Iron Curtain"! Very fascinating and humorous! Thanks for putting it on YouTube djanchovy! :__)

[superficus]

WOW! You guys made some amazing stuff during a very difficult time. I'm impressed. :)

[jvanysek]

Hallo, I am director....! I made The Road That Leads To Nowhere {Cesta ktera vede nikam] in 1969 after invasion of Soviet Army. 20 zears it was on the black list i Czechoslovakia. For the first time "on air" in 1990.

Jiri Vanysek

[djanchovy]

Hello, nice to hear from you. I love this movie! I lived in Prerov for 5 years, 1998-2003, my Czech friends taught me alot about great Czech big beat music; Blue Effect,Matadors,Atlantis,Beatm­en,etc. I love the Czech Republic!!

[jvanysek]

I am right now in Canberra, I like Australia! Return to Brno - February 6. Today don't exist by us so good rock [orr beat] as in 60'...

[djanchovy]

Watch my video of Czech group Mancuso[my friends]!!! I worked at a school in Brno. There used to be a good antiqvariat in Brno across from the hlavni nadrazi, but I think it's gone now. They had many good old records!!

[nathaniel9897]

Hello,

First of all, I really enjoyed watching this movie. I would like to ask you a question: why is the film entitled "The road that leads nowhere"? I don't understand czech language so if the reason is explained in the film, I would have missed it completely. Thank you and I wish you all the best.

Nathalie

[jvanysek]

The name "The road which leads to nowhere" had political sens (undertone). It was made in april 1969) - after invasion of Soviet Army in Prague.

[otiHito]

Dobry den vinsujem, Pan Vabysek, som sice rocnik '85, ale mam rad take tie 'Stare, ale hity' a za nieco taketo- klobuk dole.

p.s. Bigbeat je vecny

[tercuska]

hallo! i had never hear that this film exist!

thak you!!! thank you!!!!!!!!!

many greatings from prax55

cs beat music historiographer

[djanchovy]

Hello/ahoj!! Ceske Republice je moc dobry!! Pivo a holky!! I know a little Czech!! I love your country!!!!

[ojayakuza]

JO! Tohle sem schanel, masakr!

[ludasmatyi2007]

Can you tell me the Czech original title, name of film director and, if you know, exactly when and why it was done. thank you everybody! Alessandro

[djanchovy]

The Czech title is Cesta Ktera Vede Nikam, the director is Jiri Vanysek.

[ludasmatyi2007]

Thank you very much. I'm currently writing an history of the 60's and 70's "eastern" rock (in Italian!) and it is just fantastic. If you can help me more with news let me know! Alessandro

[xonk5472]

awesome: cheers, ears!

is this around on DVD? or VHS, even?

[djanchovy]

It's from a TV broadcast. I don't think it's ever been released on VHS or DVD.

[djanchovy]

Sometime in the next few days I am going to repost this film in 3 parts and better quality. People seem to really like it. DJ Anchovy!!

[Bittnerova]

I am from the Czech republic, I like music from sixtees, but I have never seen this movie yet! So it is wonderful.

Singer of ATLANTIS Hana Ulrychova is one from the best voice in my country.

[djanchovy]

Yes,I agree. Hana is wonderful. Also Eva Pilarova. I am from NY but I lived in Prerov, CZ for 5 years. I love your country very much!! To je moc dobry!! Ciao!

[kooz21]

Thank you for this film. The songs from Prudy enrich me the most. I like it very much...and more the old Prudy wiht Marian Varga(I'm going to his concert after 2 weeks :-)

Do you have some more videos from their or can you make some short videos of prudy from this film? thank you one more time

[djanchovy]

I have 1 video of Medulinka from 1999, and Pavol Hammel from Bratislava Lyra 1983. I think I have some short clips of Varga/Collegium Musicum. I also have Fermata 30min. from X Tour 2000. I will post them soon.

[PRDPRDPRD]

Yuchuu! Soon as posible please!