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Alfons Mucha’s Slav Epic set for legal tug of war between Prague and painter’s descendants
The Slav Epic is the monumental work of Czech painter Alfons Mucha in which he traces the history of the Slav peoples. But over the years the fate of the 20 massive…
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Febiofest offers big picture on refugee crisis
One of the biggest Czech film festivals, Febiofest, gets underway in Prague on Thursday night. The event, which is now in its 23rd year, will highlight more than 150 films…
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Trabant adventure film hits Czech cinemas
Czech adventurer Dan Přibáň is well-known as the team leader of a number of expeditions using what was considered the world’s worst car – the Soviet-era Trabant. Where…
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A Syrian Love Story wins main award at One World
A Syrian Love Story on Monday was awarded the main prize at the One World festival of human rights documentaries in the Czech Republic. The film, directed by British…
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Koudelka taught me how to see, says helmer of One World film on great Czech photographer
Perhaps best known from his powerful images from the streets of Prague during the Soviet-led invasion of 1968, Josef Koudelka – who emigrated soon after those events –…
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Testimony of one-time school shooting plotter helps us understand problem, says maker of One World…
“I’m always a potential killer,” says “Lauri”, the unseen narrator of the Finnish film White Rage, one of the highlights of this year’s One World festival of human rights…
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There’s something queer about Czech writing
In communist days, writing inspired by love and passion between people of the same sex was largely taboo, and even today lesbian and gay writing in the Czech Republic…
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One World doc Russian Woodpecker explores possible links between Chernobyl and nearby Soviet radar
The Russian woodpecker was the nickname given to a rapid-fire shortwave signal emitted during the cold war from the Duga radar in what is today’s Ukraine. But was there a…
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Shockproof film festival gives star billing to B-movie schlock and gore
The Shockproof Festival is on at Prague’s arthouse cinema Aero. The festival, known for its focus on B-movie action films, gore, exploitation horror and more, this year is…
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Like it or not, migrants are coming, says maker of One World film No Man is an Island
The Belgian film No Man is an Island opened the One World festival of human rights documentaries in Prague earlier this week. The film maps the fates of two young migrants…
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Charlotte “Charlie One” Fairman: People went, English singer? Right – into the studio!
Charlotte Fairman – nicknamed Charlie One – is an English vocalist who has been living here in Prague for the last two decades. The singer moved to the city after…
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Czech bass-baritone Adam Plachetka
This edition of Sunday Music Show is devoted to Czech opera singer, bass-baritone Adam Plachetka, who is currently at home at the Vienna State opera. One of the bright…
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