The digitally remastered film poem The Way Trough the Bleak Woods from 1997 premiered at 58th KVIFF. The screening was presented by a delegation of authors – director Ivan Vojnár, cinematographer Jaromír Kačer and producer Galina Šustová.
At the debate after the screening, the director talked about what it is like to watch his work after more than 25 years. “Cinematography as a work of art somehow shows what is happening in the author or in the collective of filmmakers, but also what is happening in society. So today I see film in a completely different way. But I have that with other films as well. The ones I liked to watch in the 60s stopped appealing to me later on.” Vojnár described.
“Remastering a new version of the film, by using modern technology, allowed the filmmakers to complete and subsequently present the film as they had originally intended, but technological or financial constraints at the time did not allow this.”