Culture
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Actress Catherine Deneuve receives Kristián Award for contribution to world cinematography
The celebrated French actress Catherine Deneuve, one of the best-known names in international cinema, has received a lifetime achievement award, the Kristian Award for her…
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“Permanent traveller” Koudelka returns to Prague with major exhibition
A huge exhibition of work by the world-renowned Czech photographer Josef Koudelka has just opened in Prague. Entitled Returning, it features hundreds of photos from…
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Movement and dance theatre tells powerful story of Soviet dissidents who stood up for Czechoslovakia
On August 25th, 1968, just four days after Russian tanks rolled through Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring reform movement, eight brave Russians staged a daring…
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Josef Straka: a modern-day Prague flâneur
Josef Straka is an heir to the rich tradition of the poet as a wanderer through the city. In Paris they have the “flâneur”, but in Prague it is the “chodec”, the walker…
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Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra using cross-over projects to attract new audiences
Many people don’t know that the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra is one of the oldest leading Czech orchestras. It was founded only three years after the creation of Czech…
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2018 Febiofest promises emerging filmmakers, director profiles and much more
Prague’s biggest film event, Febiofest, gets underway on Thursday evening. The festival will deliver more than 160 movies in 15 categories, including New Europe, a…
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Radio Prague launches on voice-activated smart device Alexa
From Wednesday Czech Radio is available on Alexa, a voice-activated smart device of the kind that may be seen in most homes in the future. To get Radio Prague’s news, for…
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Ice Mother is story of revolt, says maker of Czech Lion-winning film
Ice Mother by Bohdan Sláma swept the boards at the main domestic film awards, the Czech Lions, on Saturday night. The bittersweet family drama collected six prizes…
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Indian filmmaker creates epic documentary from new Wave fascination
Since his studies, Indian filmmaker Shivendra Dungarpur has been fascinated by the work of Czech director Jiří Menzel. Eight years ago he started making a documentary…
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Czech One World festival focuses on information overload and fake news
The annual One World festival of human rights documentary films, which marks its 20th anniversary this year, has got underway in Prague. Its programme director Ondřej…
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National Museum discovers fake gems in its collection
An audit into the collection of precious stones of the National Museum in Prague has revealed a disturbing fact: some of its priceless gems are no more than cheap…
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David Whiteman: the forgotten Czech story of the man who triggered World War I
When the Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the Austrian throne in Sarajevo in 1914, he was just short of his twentieth birthday. Under Austrian law…
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