Culture
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Unusual love triangle (and cows) at centre of new Bohdan Sláma film Country Teacher
The latest film by the Czech director Bohdan Sláma Venkovský Učitel – Country Teacher – opened at cinemas around the Czech Republic on Thursday. In keeping with its…
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Artist Jaroslav Šerých subject of retrospective at Fine Arts Museum
The Czech artist Jaroslav Šerých is a man of many talents: painter, illustrator, printmaker and sculptor. To mark the great artist's 80th birthday, a retrospective of…
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Lemonade Joe: soft-drink purveying cowboy and cult Czech figure
‘Limonádový Joe’ (Lemonade Joe) is a cult sixties Czech western cum musical about a lemonade salesman in the Wild West. The film started life as column in a newspaper…
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A new anthology presents three generations of Romany writers
It is estimated that some ten million Roma live in Europe – the equivalent of the total population of the Czech Republic. But we hear very little about Romany writing. A…
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Young indie rockers Airfare take off
In recent weeks no band has made as exciting an impact on the Czech scene as Airfare – an indie rock group made up of Czech-American frontman Thomas J. Lichtag, guitarist…
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Josef Hlávka: one of the greatest Czech philanthropists
This week marks exactly 100 years since the death of Josef Hlávka, an architect, builder and the biggest Czech philanthropists of all time. This year, it has been 104…
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Famous actor Radovan Lukavský dies aged 88
One of the legends of Czech theatre, the actor Radovan Lukavský, died on Monday at the age of 88. Lukavský’s renown was largely built on such performances as his 1960s…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: the beneficial properties of sea water once again, the Barrandov film studios in Prague, an Oscar for Czech musician Markéta Irglová, the 30th…
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Aero: a cinema with an atmosphere
It’s Wednesday night and Kino Aero in Prague’s Žižkov district is swarming with people. Despite it’s slightly run down interior and uncomfortable creaky chairs this small…
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Newcomers Airfare burst onto Czech music scene
A new indy rock band called Airfare has been making headlines in the Czech Republic in the weeks following the release of the group’s first album, Hotel Moscow. The catchy…
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Europe's biggest human rights documentary festival gets underway in Prague
The 10th Jeden Svět (One World) festival of human rights documentary films begins in Prague on Wednesday night. The focus of the 2008 festival is on dictatorships, while…
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Alice Nellis film wins Czech Lion
Saturday night saw the Czech Republic host its annual national film awards, known as the Český Lev, or Czech Lion. No single film swept the board, but director Alice…
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