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Like no other movement in European film, the Czech New Wave was an intellectual movement. Not least, it also resulted from literary renewal, such as Kundera's novels and a whole series of contemporary literature that was filmed. The attempt to find a new literary language was accompanied by cinematic forms such as flashbacks in the film. In Western Europe, the role models were pop culture, comics and American films; in Eastern Europe, on the other hand, national folklore was the focus of attention. In a completely different way to the Heimatfilm, the needs of mass culture were excluded - the Czech New Wave was an intellectual movement! The early films of Milos Forman, Vera Chytilova, Jiri Menzel, but also those of older directors such as Karel Kachyna and Vojtech Jasny are counted among the new wave. Jan Nemec combined avant-garde with literary film adaptations based on historical material in his very own mixture. The function of film, indeed of all the arts, changed, positioned itself in a publicly effective and political way. The change from a relatively moderate censorship to the occupation of the country was made possible. Milos Forman: "Usually only the film in which political content is presented is regarded as a political film. However, I am of the opinion that even films with completely apolitical content like Lasky jedne plavovlasky (Love of a blonde) are political. For the tenor of this film is the examination of one's own existence, the question of what happens to us and around us. The question of the future is no longer far away."