I want to check that film out, thank you for the rec.
It reminds me of a Turkish film called vizyontele, where a similar village gets their first BW TV which pisses off the local cinemas owner and has a similar neurodivergent handyman (at least Tourettes)
In my country during the Communist era (1963), the first 100-ish TV owners in a tiny river valley town were pissed about bad reception. The Communists obviously didn’t want to appease the richest few but they allowed this to go through if the TV owners personally built the tower for free, mostly on Sunday mornings. Thus, the Alexandrovka lookout tower’s ruins were restored and heightened, the authorities basically just inspected the resulting structure and installed the repeater equipment. Source (Czech, obviously)
I want to check that film out, thank you for the rec.
It reminds me of a Turkish film called vizyontele, where a similar village gets their first BW TV which pisses off the local cinemas owner and has a similar neurodivergent handyman (at least Tourettes)
In my country during the Communist era (1963), the first 100-ish TV owners in a tiny river valley town were pissed about bad reception. The Communists obviously didn’t want to appease the richest few but they allowed this to go through if the TV owners personally built the tower for free, mostly on Sunday mornings. Thus, the Alexandrovka lookout tower’s ruins were restored and heightened, the authorities basically just inspected the resulting structure and installed the repeater equipment. Source (Czech, obviously)