Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:29:09 +0200Staff ruses helped preserve valuable footage during communism, says NFA head Breganthttps://english.radio.cz/staff-ruses-helped-preserve-valuable-footage-during-communism-says-nfa-head-8541589© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalMichal 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 valuable materials. When we met at a lively bar near the FAMU film school, of which Bregant was dean for six years, we discussed film preservation, digitisation and the future of the NFA. But the first topic of conversation was the foundation of the Archive way back in 1943: Were the Czechoslovaks unusual in realising at that time that their movies needed to be looked after?encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/bregant_michal_2.jpg?timestamp=1591149794 Staff ruses helped preserve valuable footage during communism, says NFA head Bregant https://english.radio.cz/staff-ruses-helped-preserve-valuable-footage-during-communism-says-nfa-head-8541589 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9