From ce-review.org
Menzel could not work in films for some time after Skřivánci na niti. It was a period when he had to decide if he would accept the rules dictated by the regime or leave his profession yet keep his “artistic freedom.” This difficult situation was also faced by other members of the Czech New Wave. Miloš Forman, Jan Němec and Ivan Passer decided to emigrate, while Věra Chytilová and Evald Schorm stayed in Czechoslovakia even though they could not work as film directors (Chytilová for seven years, Schorm for 17 years).Menzel decided to continue as a film director in Czechoslovakia. Choosing this possibility meant making films within the Socialist ideological scheme: in other words, film as propaganda. The result was a film called Kdo hledá zlaté dno (Who looks for Gold?, 1974), a story about a young man who decides to build a dam with other Socialists. One of the collaborators on the script was Zdeněk Svěrák, who went on to work further with Menzel and also wrote the script for the Oscar-winning Kolja (Kolya, 1996).
Kdo hledá zlaté dno aka Who Looks for Gold? was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival.
Menzel had relative freedom in making his films after that.
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