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The events in Prague following the suicide and funeral of Jan Palach. A movement of national solidarity sprang up and the film portrays the atmosphere at the time.
Documentarian Richard Dindo presents an impressionistic view of the life of Franz Kafka, consisting of actors presenting the author’s personal writings as if they were documentary interviews, set against a...
John Ford’s 50th film and his most famous of the silent era. Combines a conventional tale of double-dealing, vengeance and romance with a poetic sense of history, and an epic theme - unitinga nation by...
Anderson, a decent, ineffectual English philosopher, goes to Prague on a lecture visit only to get caught up comically with the English football hacks in the hotel, and rather less comically with the plight...
Franz Kafka was born in Prague, still under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was well educated and from an early age he determined to become a writer. He worked in an insurance company and in his ample free...
HOMO HOMINI is an animated film which shows Rodin’s "The Thinker" trying to create a better world but each solution creates further problems. A rapid succession of images, showing young people laughing and...
'Beautiful Dachau’ is an experimental documentary that observes streams of visitors to the Dachau concentration camp, now a popular tourist attraction. 800,000 people visit the site annually. The film is...
Jan Nemec’s film concerns the Czech artist Toyen (Marie Cerminova). As a female artist, Toyen broke through the male-dominated art world to create paintings and drawings, often erotic in nature. She...
This DVD features candid interviews with the filmmakers - including Vera Chytilova, Jiri Menzel, Jan Nemec, and Ivan Passer among others - who created the body of work that has come to be known as the Czech...
A course video in two parts: 1) Czech Mates? (producer Jan Bright, 24 min) - features a manufacturer of chocolates and biscuits based in Prague. The key theme is the development of appropriate approaches to...
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