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Romania’s “Barbarians” takes top prize at Karlovy Vary
The Romanian film “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” took the top prize at this year’s Karlovy Vary film festival. Hollywood star Robert Pattinson…
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The songs Czechs grew up on
We can safely say that the songs you will hear today are well-known to generations of Czechs since their childhood. Everyone has watched fairy-tale movies at some point in…
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Today We Die a Little: a runner’s biography of Emil Zátopek, the greatest Czech runner of all time.
Richard Askwith is a well-known writer and journalist, but perhaps more than anything else he is a runner. In his native Britain he won a cult following with his book Feet…
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Photogallery of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
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The Rolling Stones rock Prague again
The Czech capital is in the grip of rock fever. The legendary Rolling Stones are back in Prague for a long-anticipated concert that is part of their European No Filter…
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Karlovy Vary: Offering essential support to ex-East Bloc cinema
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival prides itself on helping films from the former Eastern Bloc reach international audiences. One way the festival achieves this…
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Yale Strom: you can’t play Klezmer music - 'grey notes' - on the piano
Yale Strom, a professor and artist-in-residence in the Jewish studies programme at San Diego State University, is something of a modern-day renaissance man. Steeped in Old…
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Turning grenades into wheels: ‘80s Czech scene focus of Karlovy Vary doc King Skate
One of the most anticipated Czech documentaries at the 2018 Karlovy Vary international film festival had its world premiere on Monday night. King Skate combines period…
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Ostrava and its Jews: 'Now No-One Sings You Lullabies'
David Lawson had never heard of Ostrava when, fifteen years ago, his London synagogue received a Sefer Torah that had belonged to a once vibrant community in that…
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Tim Robbins: Festivals like Karlovy Vary among last mainstays of unfiltered expression
The biggest star at the opening of the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival was Hollywood actor Tim Robbins. On receiving the event’s lifetime achievement award…
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Miloš Forman’s Film Music
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Friday paid tribute to the work of the late Czech film director Miloš Forman. Forman had a knack for making great movies…
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2018 Karlovy Vary gets underway with tribute to late Miloš Forman
The 53rd edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will kick off with a glitzy opening ceremony on Friday evening. Over the next eight days, the spa town in…
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