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Video Kings

8.5(4)20201h 22m1

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$29K
Box office
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Language
Czech
  • vhs

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Behind the camera

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Slovakia

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Release dates

  • CzechiaCZ

    • Theatrical3 Sept 2020
    • TheatricalRe-release after COVID-19 lockdown24 May 2021
  • SlovakiaSK

    • Theatrical151 Oct 2020

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Video Kings was released on 3 September 2020.

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