In times of clanking guns and political skirmishes between Russia and Europe, we need dialogue, says Russian writer Guzel Jachina. The author of the award-winning novels Zulejka opens her eyes, Children of the Volga and Train to Samarkand likes to chat with readers. She considers preserving the dialogue to be more important today than a … Read more
CTK Updated 2 hours ago Actress and chanson singer Chantal Poullain received the highest state award, the Order of the Legion of Honor, at the French Embassy in Prague this Tuesday. She received it for the long-term mutual enrichment of Czech and French culture, as well as for the fact that she permanently contributed to … Read more
He outraged the German Jewish community with polemics about the Holocaust. German writer Martin Walser died at the age of 96. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported about it with reference to his loved ones. The winner of the Georg Büchner Prize has developed into one of the most important, but also the most controversial, authors of … Read more
He outraged the German Jewish community with polemics about the Holocaust. German writer Martin Walser died at the age of 96. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported about it with reference to his loved ones. The winner of the Georg Büchner Prize has developed into one of the most important, but also the most controversial, authors of … Read more
“Now I have to finish the film I’m shooting, but I think I’ve closed this chapter. I don’t really want to work anymore, I’d like to live a little. I’ve been saying this for ten years and it still didn’t work. Foundation, then I have to attend social events… But the film I’m shooting now … Read more
The sixth installment of the action thriller Mission: Impossible is currently showing in cinemas. The first episode about agent Ethan Hunt was filmed almost 30 years ago to the great interest of the domestic public and media, as one of the key destinations was the Czech metropolis Prague. However, it did not end well, as … Read more
The first time he hit her with a wooden shoelace. In the following years, her husband slapped her, kicked her, and burned her. He broke through her jaw, nose and rib. He also spat at her, shouted at her, insulted her at every turn and confiscated her money. In everything she did, she had to … Read more
The dramatization of former dissident Dani Horáková’s book about her cohabitation with director and screenwriter Pavel Juráček, a prominent figure of the Czechoslovak new wave of the 1960s, will be presented this Friday, April 28, by Prague’s Na zábradlí Theater. Anna Klimešová directs the production, named the same as the original O Pavlovi. It deals … Read more
František Šmehlík’s novel Šelmo became the best domestic detective book. As part of the evening, at which the organizers of the Magnesia Litera book awards announced the winners of new genre categories, Vilma Kadlečková won the award for fantasy with the eighth volume of the Mycelium saga. Martin Mach Ondřej and Lela Geislerová received the … Read more
CTK Updated 12 hours ago The winner of the international human rights film festival One World was the time-lapse film Apolonia, Apolonia about the French painter Apolonia Sokolova, directed by the Dane Lea Globová Moniesová. The audience award went to the detective thriller Kuciak: The Murder of a Journalist by Matt Sarnecki. The Václav Havel … Read more