Czech citizens refused to cooperate with Godard’s planned Prague film

Evidence

His next stop was Prague, where his intention to make another movie about the industrial proletariat, attacking the twin evils of Soviet revisionism and US imperialism. He was thwarted when Czech citizens refused to talk to him, and Czech authorities expelled him from the country. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1560

Categorization

• CANDY: Nice bar-story anecdote: the world’s most famous radical filmmaker got stonewalled by the very workers he’d come to celebrate.
• XREF: connects to: Counterculture audiences rejected Godard’s avant-garde film as boring and hypocritical. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 2024
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Counterculture audiences rejected Godard’s avant-garde film as boring and hypocritical. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 2024