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The Commune

Name: The Commune
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-11-09

Documentary1h 28m

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Storyline

The desire for freedom during Czechoslovakia’s Normalization period brought together people professing a deep inclination towards principles of the underground movement. Now, decades later, they can’t face their mutual suspicions of betrayal – of having cooperated with the state security police. Drifting throughout is the memory of their tragically departed guru, philosopher and poet Marcel Strýko. To try to come to terms with the past, an old companion from Prague organizes a revival concert in a Gothic cathedral. Will this reunion of freethinkers finally lead to repentance and forgiveness?

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DirectorJakub Julény

ReleasedNov 9, 2020

StatusReleased

Original languageSlovak

Budget

$235.5K

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guide15+SK

Studio

Hitchhiker Cinema

Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

6 fresh · 0 rotten

Bill Stamets

RTChicago Sun-TimesFeb 23, 2007

Commune channels a bygone era of drop-outs living an American dream on the Free Love frontier. This is the happy alternative to the apocalyptic California sub-cultures of Charles Manson and the Rev. Jim Jones.

G. Allen Johnson

RTSan Francisco ChronicleFeb 23, 2007

Watching Jonathan Berman's affectionate documentary, Commune, about the influential establishment in Siskiyou County, brought to mind the recent documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple.

Michael Phillips

RTChicago TribuneFeb 22, 2007

Commune gets at the central, seductive paradoxes inherent in so much counterculture belief and practice.

Glenn Dunks

RTreDocumentedMar 8, 2026

You can likely never quite escape human emotions and public perceptions. Like when commune buddies become lovers who become partners. Like when the police raid your land and seize marijuana only for it to actually be a tomato plant.