The world of magic and God of mystics in (the classic documentarist) Karel Vachek´s film novel about alien as well as earthly civilisations, advertocracy and internet democracy. The film quotes from the renowned operetta ´Mam´zelle Nitouche – the actor Oldřich Nový in a convent, a theatre and inside…
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This film explores Lisa Forell’s landscape of life and it’s borders. A Brazilian artist of Czech- German descent, she was a woman ripped from family destiny by events in 1939 and challenged to define the boundaries of personal freedom all her life. Lisa Forell lives a sweet life full of… more...
The small Czech village of Drnovice that is the home to two thousand residents boasts a football stadium for eight thousand fans. It is a pyramid of a long-lost football civilization. The rise and fall of the local football club is typical of Czech football, politics and business of the…
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Václav Klaus arrived to the harvest celebration to the Polabí region where apart from other symbolic gestures, such as sitting behind the wheel of a combine, harvesting the last spikes, giving a speech in the fertile regions, as well as giving a toast in order to re-connect to the tradition… more...
American-born filmmaker Tom Feierabend surfs across continents and decades to retrace his Czech family’s destiny from the 1930’s to the present. Tom Feierabend’s grandfather, Dr. Ladislav Feierabend was swept… more...
Memories of eyewitnesses, a portrait of a left-wing intellectual viewed from different angles and illustrated with archive materials and a theatre mis-en-scene. A man who used power to promote the Communist Party policy in Slovakia only to become its victim when sentenced to life. A story of a career politic…
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Pavel Kohout precisely records anything that happens on any given day in his diaries; we can therefore recall the social and personal vicissitudes in the life of a Czech writer thanks to random readings from his diaries, against the background of preparations for the performance of selected parts of the…
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Two giants of Czech politics of the past two decades, Václav Havel and Václav Klaus, face off in this film. Current president Klaus is internationally known for his denial of global warming, but he would also like to pass off certain chapters in his own political history as myths. Thus,… more...
A rather little known episode WWII – the fate of Czechoslovak troops in the Middle East under leadership of the legendary General Karel Klapálek. Survivor of this unit make observations regarding Masaryk, their departure for foreign lands, the defence of Tobruk, their belated arrival in Prague and communist jails that… more...
