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Duo win top Czech documentary prize with film on women from both sides of mining divide
Coal in the Soul by Martin Dušek and Ondřej Provazník last weekend won the main prize at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, the leading event of its kind…
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The Estates Theatre - Prague's oldest stage, and Mozart's favourite
It is a key anecdote in Czech musical history: that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart felt better in Prague than anywhere else. That feeling was based - among other things, no doubt…
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Director of children’s classic, Journey to the Beginning of Time, remembered
November 3 marks the anniversary of the birth of the great Czech animator Karel Zeman, who died in 1989. Mr Zeman, who directed numerous children’s classics, including The…
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Toxique – Pop group continues success with vibrant second album
Toxique, one of the most vibrant and closely-watched Czech pop bands, recently released Outlet People, their much-awaited second album. With the CD, the band takes on a…
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Roger Scruton and a special relationship
One of the most prominent guests at the Forum 2000 conference in Prague earlier this month was the conservative English philosopher and writer Roger Scruton. In the Czech…
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Children of the Revolution: politics and writing in today’s Czech Republic
A few days ago Radio Prague and the Czech Literature Portal, this country’s foremost website promoting Czech literature abroad, got together to hold the first of a series…
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Private radio celebrates 20 years with the anniversary of ‘Radio Stalin’
It was twenty years ago this week that the first privately-owned radio station went on the air in Czechoslovakia just after the Velvet Revolution. “Radio Stalin” began as…
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Občanský průkaz - a new film about youth & rebellion in Communist Czechoslovakia – premieres in…
Wednesday evening saw the highly-anticipated premiere of the new Czech film Občanský průkaz about youth & rebellion during the Normalisation period in Communist…
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Composer Sylvie Bodorová
The name of Sylvie Bodorová has been closely connected with modern classical music in the Czech Republic for about the last 30 years, in which time her compositions have…
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Ministry hopes new director will renew Czech Philharmonic
The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra will soon be under new management: specifically that of David Mareček, who the Ministry of Culture appointed to lead the orchestra on…
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Sidra Noach, a novel about Prague’s Jewish community in the time of floods
In the summer of the 2002, Prague was hit by one of the worst floods in the city’s history. The swollen Vltava inundated parts of the historic centre, including the Jewish…
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Blood, pain and violence nothing new in art, says curator of Prague exhibition that warns the…
Decadence Now! at Prague’s Rudolfinum gallery has become one of the most talked about exhibitions of the year in the Czech Republic. An extremely ambitious show by local…
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