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Genius and madman, sex, drugs and symphonies. Readers discuss the film Smetana – News List

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Genius and madman, sex, drugs and symphonies. Readers discuss the film Smetana – News List

“They were normal people with all their virtues and faults. They did not think 24 hours a day about their country and they did not pray the rosary. We were given the image of conscious artists by female primary school teachers. So why talk about a legend?” he asks in the discussion below News List … Read more

Review of the movie Smetana by Marko Najbrt

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Review of the movie Smetana by Marko Najbrt

When he conducts, Bedřich Smetana is in his element. He closes his eyes and lets himself be carried away by the interplay of instruments. Cuts to his joyous dance with his wife Betty reveal that he is feeling supreme happiness. At that moment, there is nothing but music, the pace and expression of which it … Read more