Year TWO – 1969 /April 11 – 17/
Festival director: Ladislav Ženíšek
Festival moderator: dr. František Goldscheider
The selection committee headed by dr. Stanislav Zvoníček recommended 7 Czech and 1 Slovak film for the competition. Films were screened in alphabetical order from End of a Priest to The Joke. Juraj Herz’s film The Cremator was screened out of competition in Eden cinema.
Films: Farářův konec /E. Schorm/, Královský omyl /J. Daněk/, Nejkrásnější věk /J. Papoušek/, Ohlédnutí /A. Máša/, Rozmarné léto /J. Menzel/, Všichni dobří rodáci /V. Jasný/, Zbehovia a pútníci /J. Jakubisko/, Žert /J. Jireš/
The Main Award „Kingfisher“ was awarded exceptionally to 2 films:
All My Good Countrymen, director: Vojtěch Jasný
/“not just a chronicle of one period of the Czech country, but also a mirror of Czech people’s soul“/
Deserters and Pilgrims, director: Juraj Jakubisko
/“innovative work connected with sources of the national culture“/
Other awards:
The most favourite actress /audience inquiry/: Jana Brejchová
The most favourite actress /distributors inquiry/: Jiřina Jirásková
The most favourite actor /audience and distributors inquiry/: Rudolf Hrušínský
The most favourite film /audience inquiry/: Rozmarné léto
The second year of the festival was concluded with a premiere of new Czech film Young Boháček Suffering.
Festival was attended by:
Juraj Herz, Jaroslav Papoušek, Evald Schorm, Juraj Jakubisko, Vojtěch Jasný, Jaroslav Kučera, Jaromír Šofr, Jana Brejchová, Vlastimil Brodský, Květa Fialová, Josef Hlinomaz, Rudolf Hrušínský, Jana Dítětová, Věra Křesadlová, Luděk Munzar, Jana Hlaváčová, Karol Sidon
From foreign guests: Risko Bajalski - Yugoslavia, Reimo Hallama - Finland, Dejan Djurkovič - Yugoslavia, Arnol Fröhlich - Switzerland
