Prague - The Sad City
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- Pathe synopsis: Prague is Europe’s saddest city. Pathe Pictorial visited the Czech capital in April 1968 at the height of the optimism and hope for the success of Dubcek and his comrades’ new libralism. The harsh events of summer have changed all that but the dignity of the people and the beauty of the city they are so proud of remains. The castles of medieval feuding kings, the palace of Franz Ferdinand, assassinated at Sarajevo in 1914, the great statue of King Wenceslas, these are ever present reminders to young Czechs of awesome ghosts of the past. Czech youth, ever in the forefront of change, was typified to us by Olinka Berova, a film star who made her mark in the movie capitals of the west. She showed us her Prague - the old city, the gardens, the ornamental lakes, the fabulously beautiful Gothic cathedral of St Vitus. A journey that has become a sad memory of a spring when beauty and freedom were on the Czechs’ side. Let us hope they will see those days again soon.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Scenery and travel; Newsreels
- Written sources
- Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards Used for synopsis
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Wilfrid Thomas
- Length of story (in feet)
- 736
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