Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe

Lucie Cesalkova is an Associate Professor at the Department of Film Studies, Charles University, and an editor at Prague's National Film Archive. At the Institute of Contemporary History, CAS, she was the Principal Investigator of the HERA funded international project Visual Culture of Trauma, Obliteration, and Reconstruction in Post-World War II Europe. In her research she focuses on nonfiction and documentary film, educational and advertising film, on film exhibition and moviegoing. Johannes Praetorius-Rhein is a research associate at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg (Potsdam) and an adjunct lecturer at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. Previously, he was a researcher at the Goethe-University for the ViCTOR-E-project. His research focuses on postwar cinema, Jewish film history, and producer studies. Perrine Val is a film historian. She is a lecturer at the Universite Paul Valery-Montpellier 3. Her research focuses on transnational cinematographic exchanges during the Cold War. She published a book based on her Ph.D. thesis about the cinematographic relationships between France and the GDR, entitled Les relations cinematographiques entre la France et la RDA: entre camaraderie, bureaucratie et exotisme (1946-1992) (Villeneuve d'Asq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2021). Paolo Villa is a researcher at the University of Parma and a former postdoc toral fellow at the Universities of Udine and Pavia-Cremona. In addition to articles in journals and edited volumes, he authored a book on art documentaries in Italy, La camera di Stendhal. Il film sull'arte in Italia (1945-1970).