Filip Antonio: The Rising Star of Film and TV Series

Filip Antonio: The Rising Star of Film and TV Series

Filip Antonio started playing as a small boy. Perhaps the fateful number 23 helped him in his career. The young actor celebrated his 20th birthday and continues to act. A talented actor Philip Antonio celebrated his 20th birthday at the beginning of September. Already in early childhood, he began to show his aptitude for acting. … Read more

He runs away from school to the world of computer games. The novel about the boy won the German Book Prize

He runs away from school to the world of computer games.  The novel about the boy won the German Book Prize

At first glance, Echtzeitalter looks like a school novel, for which the thirty-one-year-old Austrian Tonio Schachinger won the prestigious German Book Prize this Monday evening. However, according to the jury, the book’s title is deceiving. In fact, it follows the long tradition of the social novel. As the DPA agency writes, the story focuses on … Read more

Behind the Scenes of StarDance: Costumes, Emotions, and Technology

Behind the Scenes of StarDance: Costumes, Emotions, and Technology

All evenings are broadcast live from the Křižík Pavilion at the Holešovice Exhibition Center in Prague. That’s where StarDance takes place. The dance couples have been training since the end of July in rehearsal rooms on Kavče hory. The contestants only saw the broadcast location for the first time this week. “It doesn’t look as … Read more

Antonín Dvořák’s Love for Nature: A Review of the Czech Philharmonic’s Performance of In Nature

Antonín Dvořák’s Love for Nature: A Review of the Czech Philharmonic’s Performance of In Nature

Antonín Dvořák loved nature. “In the most beautiful forest I spend the most wonderful days in beautiful weather and I am constantly admiring the enchanting birdsong,” he wrote in 1884 from his summer residence in Vysoké u Příbram. Eight years later, he reported from New York that nature needed “its diminuendo and morendo to revive … Read more

Chylková and Tománek: Dancing Chemistry and Hilarious Banter on StarDance Exams

Chylková and Tománek: Dancing Chemistry and Hilarious Banter on StarDance Exams

He indirectly said of her that she was cute. Every now and then, she throws gentle sarcasm at him. “You know what I’m going to miss? When I was on the jury, I used to go to Náplavka every Saturday morning, and now I will have to go to the Exhibition Grounds,” he answered for … Read more

Petr Hořejš, the author of the extensive series Wanderings in the Czech Past, died at the age of 84

Petr Hořejš, the author of the extensive series Wanderings in the Czech Past, died at the age of 84

Editor, writer and screenwriter Petr Hořejš, author of the extensive book series Wandering in the Czech Past, has died. The man who previously wrote under the pseudonym Petr Hora lived to be 84 years old. His wife Jitka Hořejsová informed about his death on Thursday. He started creating a series of books about Czech history … Read more

Chalupáři: The Most Successful Czech TV Series of All Time

Chalupáři: The Most Successful Czech TV Series of All Time

There can be no doubt that the Czech TV series “Chalupáři”, which has been entertaining viewers for almost fifty years, is one of the most successful ever filmed in our country. Its popularity is proven by the fact that, even after many reruns, it is still ranked among the most watched shows. This is also … Read more

The Life and Stories of Halina Pawlowska: From ‘Banana Fish’ Presenter to Today’s Quirky Figure

The Life and Stories of Halina Pawlowska: From ‘Banana Fish’ Presenter to Today’s Quirky Figure

Television viewers are getting a glimpse into the significant difference between Halina Pawlowská as the former presenter of the Czech Television talk show “Banana Fish” and her current self. In a recent interview on the CNN Prima News program “Povídej,” Pawlowská surprised many with her new appearance and demeanor. However, she still introduced herself as … Read more

Film about the Mašín Brothers: One of the Greatest Cold War Stories

Film about the Mašín Brothers: One of the Greatest Cold War Stories

“You can’t live without freedom,” reads the first trailer for the expected film about the Mašín brothers, which was filmed by their distant relative Tomáš Mašín. A sample of it was published on Wednesday evening by Czech Television, which describes it as “one of the greatest stories of the Cold War”. 1:20 The film Brothers … Read more

Against communists with guns in hand. The first trailer for the film about the Mašín brothers has been released

Film about the Mašín Brothers: One of the Greatest Cold War Stories

“You can’t live without freedom,” reads the first trailer for the expected film about the Mašín brothers, which was filmed by their distant relative Tomáš Mašín. A sample of it was published on Wednesday evening by Czech Television, which describes it as “one of the greatest stories of the Cold War”. 1:20 The film Brothers … Read more