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Round the World with Movietone: Crown Prince Michael of Romania inspects troops in Greece, Prince & Princess Nicholas of Romania skiing in Kitzbuhel

Date released

13 Jan 1938

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

449A

NoS ID

008392

Story no

9 / 19

Prince Nicholas, a brother to King Carol of Roumania, married against the King’s will and is therefore living in exile now. Here he is seen with Princess Nicholas, with whom he is living quietly on a...

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Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)

Director

Pavel Juracek

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region free, 107 minutes), £19.99

Lost on a country road, a man finds himself trapped in a nightmare world that mirrors Communist-era Czechoslovakia. A free-form and darkly surreal adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, which...

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Král Lear (2007 Video)

aka: King Lear

Director

Pavel Simák

Video recording of Pavel Simák’s 2007 production of King Lear with Dusan Sitek in the title role.

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Nicholas II bones identified (1993)

Genre

News report; Interview

Ian Fenn reports on British scientists identifying bones found in a makeshift grave in eastern Russia as those of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II and his family. Dr Peter Gill, Home Office forensic...

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Life As It Is: The Dziga Vertov Collection

Date

17 Feb 2014, 16:48

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Article

The Kinonedelja - Online Edition in the Austrian Film Museum brings together the earliest work of Russian film director and theoretician Dziga Vertov. We provide a guide to the Museum’s Vertov collection,...

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Romeo, Juliet a Tma (1959 Film)

aka: Romeo, Juliet and Darkness

Director

Jiri Weiss

Feature. A loose re-working of the Romeo and Juliet story set during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. Pavel (Mistrik), a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl, Hanka, (Smutna) in...

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Sen Noci Svatojanske (1984 Video)

aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Director

Karel Kriz

A video recording of Karel Kriz’s 1984 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the ABC Theatre, Prague. Pavel Pipal is Oberon and Vera Galatikova is Titania.

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Sonety (2007 Audio, Radio)

aka: William Shakespeare - Sonety Sonnets

Director

Marketa Jahodva Rozhlasova

A 6-CD set of Shakespeare’s sonnets spoken in Czech and English with commentary by Martin Hilsky. The sonnets are read by Scott Bellefeuille and Pavel Soukup. First recorded in a fuller version on Czech...

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The Tale of a Swan

Date released

9 Apr 1959

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1557A

NoS ID

022960

Story no

4 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Tale of a Swan. DESCRIPTION: These pictures show Swan lake, Moscow, and a swan that nearly pined away with grief over the loss of his mate. Now, he’s just mad about the keeper. Every...

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Hra na Makbetha (1978 Audio, Television, Video)

aka: Play on Macbeth Macbeth Behind Closed Doors Play Macbeth

Director

Pavel Kohout

A version of Macbeth directed by Pavel Kahout and performed by the Living Room Theatre Company. Pavel Landovsky and Vlasta Charmostova are the Macbeths.

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