{"id":55171,"date":"2025-10-07T14:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/?post_type=novinka&p=55171"},"modified":"2025-10-11T17:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:12:27","slug":"the-bells-for-the-barefooted-lumiere-festival-2025","status":"publish","type":"novinka","link":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/news\/the-bells-for-the-barefooted-lumiere-festival-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The prestigious Lumi\u00e8re Festival in Lyon will screen Stanislav Barab\u00e1\u0161\u2019s film The Bells for the Barefooted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The prestigious Lumi\u00e8re Festival in Lyon<\/a> is one of the most important events dedicated to presenting films from the golden treasury of world cinema. Several Slovak films have already been presented at this festival in the past; this year, Slovak cinema will be represented by the digitally restored film The Bells for the Barefooted<\/a> <\/em>(1965) by Stanislav Barab\u00e1\u0161. The festival takes place from October 11 to 19, and Barab\u00e1\u0161\u2019s film will be screened at two showings.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lumi\u00e8re Festival focuses on significant works from film history and highlights the importance of preserving them today. Its program is dedicated to restored classic films, retrospectives, and tributes to major filmmakers. An important part of the festival is the Lumi\u00e8re Classics label<\/a>, whose aim is to highlight the thorough and active work of film archives around the world, which consists of restoring, renewing, and bringing classic films back to \u201clife.\u201d Each year, Lumi\u00e8re Classics<\/a> exclusively presents the best restored films of the 20th century, including lesser-known or forgotten titles from archives, in the Treasures and Curiosities section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this year\u2019s edition, the Treasures and Curiosities section will include Stanislav Barab\u00e1\u0161\u2019s The Bells for the Barefooted<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. As in his debut The Song of the Grey Pigeon<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (1961), Barab\u00e1\u0161 responds to the events of World War II and the Slovak National Uprising. The film\u2019s central characters are two friends \u2013 partisans \u2013 who, while returning to their unit, are dragging along a captured German soldier. In the midst of desolate, snow-covered mountains, people from two enemy camps find themselves face to face. While the partisans lose contact with their unit, the German loses hope of surviving the situation. The cinematography by Vincent Rosinec transforms the endless white landscape into a captivating cinematic environment, where the characters sometimes stand out and sometimes fade into the vast embrace of nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barab\u00e1\u0161\u2019s film appears in the Treasures and Curiosities section alongside films such as The Window to Luna Park<\/strong><\/em> (1957) by Luigi Comencini, The Secret Killer<\/strong><\/em> (1965) by Robert Hossein, and Pharaoh<\/em> <\/strong>(1965) by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. \u201cFor Slovak cinema, it is an achievement that classic Slovak films which have undergone restoration and digital remastering can be presented at such an important festival as Lumi\u00e8re Lyon. It often determines the further festival life of the film, and for presenting our audiovisual heritage abroad, this is very significant,\u201d said Rastislav Steranka, Director of the National Cinematographic Centre of the Slovak Film Institute (SFI). According to him, it is \u201cthe most dignified way for a classic Slovak film \u2013 our audiovisual heritage \u2013 to reach audiences around the world again, decades after its creation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In previous years, several digitally restored Slovak films have already been screened at the Lumi\u00e8re Festival. The first was Viktor Kubal\u2019s animated film The Bloody Lady<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (1980); festival audiences have also seen Elo Havetta\u2019s Wild Lilies<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (1972), Peter Solan\u2019s tragicomedy The Case of Barnab\u00e1\u0161 Kos<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (1964), two films by Martin Holl\u00fd Night Riders<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (1981) and A Case for the Defense Counsel<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (1964) as well as Eduard Gre\u010dner\u2019s drama Dragon<\/strong><\/em>\u2019s<\/em><\/strong> Return<\/strong><\/em><\/a> <\/strong><\/em>(1967). According to Rastislav Steranka, the presentation of Slovak films at this prestigious classic film festival represents \u201csignificant recognition and appreciation of our systematic work in preserving, protecting, and making Slovak film heritage accessible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Screenings:
17 October | 14:15 | Institut Lumi\u00e8re
18 October | 11:00 | Lumi\u00e8re Terreaux<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More information at: http:\/\/www.festival-lumiere.org\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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