Favorite scenes
1. The artist stranded after the ladder falls - the situation of THE ARTIST in THE
STATE.
2. The "national" treasury slowly being stolen away.
3. The boring rendition of a Beatles song by the regional orchestra.
4. The old men and the girl who brought a bathing suit.
5. Most of all, as I mentioned before, the old man's look when he sees the empty box... He KNOWS it couldn't have been otherwise.
It must have been exiting to be in Prague then, for that short time, when things were opening up, and there really seemed that there might just be an alternative to American-style Capitalism and Stalinist-style Communism. That is, until the Soviet tanks put an end to that.