Culture
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Seventy-five years of film at Barrandov studios
Last week Prague’s Barrandov studios celebrated 75 years of movie-making. On January 25, 1933, filming started on the thriller ‘Vrazda v Ostrovni ulici’ (Murder on…
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Seventh and final Harry Potter launched in Czech
After months of anticipation, and several unauthorized versions finding their way onto the internet, the Czech translation of the seventh and final Harry Potter book has…
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Citizen Havel lifts curtain on playwright-turned-president’s decade in office
Citizen Havel, a new fly-on-the-wall documentary about the former Czech president, premiered on Wednesday night in Prague. The film draws on 45 hours of unique behind-the…
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Tomáš Baldýnský – film critic AND chair of state film support body
Tomáš Baldýnský is one of the Czech Republic’s leading film critics and is known for not pulling any punches in his reviews. He is also the unpaid chairman of the…
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“Magic Eights” film festival looks back at 1918, 1938, 1948, 1968…
There’s a rather unusual film festival underway at Prague’s Ořechovka cinema at the moment. Called “The Magic Eights”, it examines the strange significance of the number …
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Karel Gott
In this edition of Music Profile we take a brief look back at the long career of the undisputed king of Czech pop music, Karel Gott. The multi-million selling singer…
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Barrandov film studios celebrate 75th birthday
On Thursday, Prague’s Barrandov film studios celebrated their 75th birthday. Over the past three-quarters of a century, the studios have housed over 2,500 film shoots. It…
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Jiří Sequens, a gifted filmmaker who compromised his talents
The life and work of Jiří Sequens, a Czech film director who died in Prague on Monday at the age of 85, could well be the subject of a movie. A skilled filmmaker with a…
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Czechs have all the right moves when it comes to ballroom dancing
It’s Monday evening and the ballroom in Prague’s Lucerna is slowly filling up with teenagers in evening dresses. Girls are rushing to the dressing room to take off their…
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Miro Žbirka – Czechoslovak pop star
The pop star Miroslav Žbirka is more commonly known as Miro, and his childhood nickname Meky, by his many fans here in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Prague-based…
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Jan Amos Comenius: a philosopher for the 21st century
The 17th century Czech philosopher and writer, Jan Amos Komenský – known internationally as Comenius - is one of the best known Czechs of all time. He is most widely…
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Documentary offers new look at Czech Republic’s playwright president
Former dissident/playwright turned president Václav Havel remains one of the country’s most well-known and most respected figures, both at home and abroad, whose rise to…
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