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
This Monday, musician and writer Vlastimil Třešňák presented the vinyl of his last year’s album Kiks in a space called Salón on Prague’s Letná. On that occasion, he played the title song to several dozen listeners, accompanied by his band Temporary Quintet. For the introduction, he added Martin Hermann Böttcher’s melody from the film Vinnetou. … Read more
Former president Václav Havel was not an enthusiastic sports fan. Moreover, when the Czech national team played in Nagano on Sunday, February 22, 1998 in the morning (Central European time) of the final against Russia, he was still in the Střešovice hospital. “We watched the final with great tension, but in the hospital room, because … Read more