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New Svěrák movie and 3 Seasons in Hell in competition at 45th Karlovy Vary IFF
Preparations are in full swing for July's 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Though much is still being decided, the organisers revealed a lot on Tuesday…
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Popular Czech children’s book under fire over racist undertones
A racist passage from a popular Czech children’s book recently sparked a heated debate in the Czech media after a Romany activist asked for it to be withdrawn from the…
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Kryštof Hádek – “shooting star” of Czech film
Kryštof Hádek first made waves nearly a decade ago when he played a fresh-faced young pilot in the World War II drama Dark Blue World. Since then the Prague-born actor has…
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Jiří Georg Dokoupil at Prague Castle Riding School
For weeks now ads on billboards, the metro, and Prague trams have advertised one of the biggest exhibitions of this artistic season – work by the internationally-acclaimed…
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Film captures thwarted plans for futuristic Jan Kaplický building in Prague
The documentary Oko nad Prahou (The Eye Above Prague), which premiered in the city on Wednesday night, is about Jan Kaplický winning the contract to build a new National…
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Big Band of Czech Radio celebrates 50 years of its existence
The legendary Big Band of Czech Radio is celebrating 50 years of its existence. The history of the band goes back to the 1960s, when it was called the Czechoslovak Radio…
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Joe Karafiát – guitarist and songwriter with Plastic People of the Universe
Joe Karafiát is a songwriter and guitarist with the legendary Czech underground rock band the Plastic People of the Universe. Karafiat, who has also played with groups…
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Mamas & Papas – an intimate new film by director Alice Nellis – to premiere in Czech cinemas
Alice Nellis, the writer and director of the awarding-winning feature Tajnosti (Little Girl Blue) will next week see the release of her highly-anticipated new film called…
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Chopin and Bohemia
A few weeks ago, the world celebrated the 200th birthday of one of the great composers of all time, Frederic Chopin, who was born just outside Warsaw in 1810. As elsewhere…
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DVD series resurrects 1950s Czechoslovak Socialist Realist films
Filmy patří lidu (Films Belong to the People) is the title of a series of Socialist Realist pictures that have been released on DVD in the Czech Republic in recent months…
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Popular marionette theater reopens in Prague
After two years of reconstruction, Prague’s famed marionette theatre “Divadlo Spejbla a Hurvínka” is reopening its doors on Thursday. The newly renovated location is the…
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The rise and fall of the King of Comedians, Vlasta Burian
For all the funny people who have contributed to a century of Czech filmmaking, the title “King of Comics” belongs to only one. Vlasta Burian would be 119 years old next…
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