'' All My Compatriots '' , also known as '' All My Countrymen '' ( ) , is a 1968 Czechoslovak film directed by Vojtěch Jasný . Considered the " most Czech " of his contemporary filmmakers , Jasný 's style was primarily lyricist . It took nearly 10 years to complete the script and it was his greatest work . The film was banned and the director went into exile rather than recant . It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival where Jasný won the award for Best Director . The film begins in 1945 and traces the seasonal or annual changes that a small Moravian village undergoes until the Epilogue , which is sometime after 1958
1969 Cannes Film Festival
1969 Cannes Film Festival
All My Compatriots