Squandered Sunday

Published on May 9, 2026

Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Fri., May 8, 2026, 9 – 10:20 p.m.

black and white image of a young white man lying in bed smoking

An unjustly forgotten treasure of the Czech New Wave, Squandered Sunday was shot in 1969 (only months after Warsaw Pact tanks invaded Prague) and did not see the light of day until the end of communism. FAMU graduate Drahomíra Vihanová chronicles a day in the life of depressed alcoholic army officer Ernest, whose existential despair, anxiety and directionless anger paint a sharp contrast to the exuberant, colorful satires one might be accustomed to from '60s Czechoslovakia.

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Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
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