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66 Seasons (66 sezón, 2003) Director: Péter Kerekes Péter Kerekes won the Best Documentary Film Award in the Czech Critics Awards in 2004 and the Best Central European Documentary Award in the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in 2003 for 66 Seasons. This documentary film about the Old Swimming Pool in Košice, where the history came to bathe, was made over the summer seasons of 2000 to 2002. Seen through several stories unfolding the years between 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 on the reminiscences of several visitors to the "Céhácko" -as the pool was known, which the film crew tries to reconstruct years later. The swimming pool, thus, acquires another metaphysical dimension - it resembles a model of a world where, private stories merge with universal history with greater intensity. Different generations of swimmers replaced one another over the course of the decades, only the craving for water as a place of absolute equality. |
