Video Kings (2020)
Copying videos illegally on a mass scale is one thing, but making a marketable product out of them is quite another. Just think of the most basic problem: language – your average customer won’t be a polyglot! The answer to that problem all over Central and Eastern Europe was a practice called rychlodabing, or speed dubbing in Czech, which consisted of one sole actor voicing all characters, with the original voices usually still audible beneath. This is how millions of people in the ČSSR encountered many forms of cinema for the first time in the 1980s, and how many foreign words became lodged (in a corrupted fashion) in everyday language. Some expressions (often curse words) were born. That’s popular culture at its liveliest. Video Kings is an oral history monument to the art of rychlodabing and some of its masters, as well as a collective reminiscence from a time of political transformation, and how ordinary people were agents of that change in extraordinary ways.
Cast
Screenplay
- Petr Svoboda (Screenplay)
- Petr Svoboda (Story)
- Lukáš Bulava (Story)
- Lukáš Bulava (Screenplay)
Keywords
vhs
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Video Kings about?
- Copying videos illegally on a mass scale is one thing, but making a marketable product out of them is quite another. Just think of the most basic problem: language – your average customer won’t be a polyglot! The answer to that problem all over Central and Eastern Europe was a practice called rychlodabing, or speed dubbing in Czech, which consisted of one sole actor voicing all characters, with the original voices usually still audible beneath. This is how millions of people in the ČSSR encountered many forms of cinema for the first time in the 1980s, and how many foreign words became lodged (in a corrupted fashion) in everyday language. Some expressions (often curse words) were born. That’s popular culture at its liveliest. Video Kings is an oral history monument to the art of rychlodabing and some of its masters, as well as a collective reminiscence from a time of political transformation, and how ordinary people were agents of that change in extraordinary ways.
- Who directed Video Kings?
- Video Kings was directed by Lukáš Bulava.
- Who stars in Video Kings?
- Video Kings stars Ondřej Hejma, Zdeněk Troška, Roman Holý, František Fuka, Dana Hábová, Ondřej Neff.
- How long is Video Kings?
- Video Kings has a runtime of 1h 22m (82 minutes).
- What genre is Video Kings?
- Video Kings is a Documentary film.
- What is the budget of Video Kings?
- Video Kings had a budget of $29,000.
- Where was Video Kings produced?
- Video Kings was produced in Slovakia.