Culture
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My Prague – Karel Och
Karel Och, who hails from a small town in the Vysočina region, is artistic director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. For most of the year, Och and his…
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US film historians find treasure in Czech archive
American film historians recently came across a fascinating discovery when they found the Czech National Film Archive has the only surviving print of the 1929 US movie…
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Ahmed is Hungry: traditional East European folk music with a fresh new sound
This week we are profiling the band Ahmed má hlad (Ahmed is hungry) a band that revives and draws on Balkan and East European folk music, while giving these traditional…
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Adéla Gálová: Magyars are not from Mars
The Czech Republic and Hungary are countries of similar size with plenty of history in common, whether we look back to the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the…
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Ten renovated Czech synagogues to reopen next year
Ten historic synagogues in Bohemia and Moravia are undergoing massive renovations and are set to reopen in all their former glory next year. The Ten Stars project includes…
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Sculptures of the late president Václav Havel arouse controversy
As Czechs prepare to mark the second anniversary of the death of ex-president Václav Havel, an exhibition has opened at the Czech Academy of Sciences reflecting an age-old…
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Czech rock diehards Katapult
The Czech hard rock band Katapult formed in the early 1970s to become one of the most popular acts of the era. With its straight-forward, heavy sound and simple lyrics…
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Producers try to draw more Bollywood filmmakers to the Czech Republic
In early November, the Czech foreign affairs and culture ministries combined efforts with the country’s film industry to make a promotional push in India’s film capital…
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New doc lifts lid on Czech pop bizz via story of manufactured teen group
One of the most compelling Czech documentaries of the year gets a cinema release on Thursday. Show! follows manufactured teen pop group 5Angels as they are drilled for…
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Republic of Two – Purveyors of gentle, guitar-based indie
Republic of Two comprise a pair of songwriters, Jiří Burian and Mikolas Ruzicka. Their debut Raising the Flag in 2010 earned the duo, who both play guitar and alternate on…
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Mike Baugh and Magor: translating the untranslatable
Last week, Prague hosted a conference devoted to Ivan Martin Jirous, one of the legends of the Czechoslovak underground of the 70s and 80s, who died in November 2011. The…
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Staff ruses helped preserve valuable footage during communism, says NFA head Bregant
Michal Bregant is the director of the National Film Archive, a state body that oversees over 150 million metres of film, tens of thousands of movie posters and other…
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