“In this difficult and uncertain time we are in, which will probably last for some time, we are trying to help. Children who cannot go to school, parents who take care of them at home, and seniors, who often have to limit contact with their families. And just like this year we will help the needy through traditional Advent concerts, so we will once again bring our spectators the much-anticipated, new Christmas fairy tales. Especially the Christmas Eve has become a tradition in our country, which is not regularly missed by more than 2.5 million viewers, “said Petr Dvořák, CEO of Czech Television.
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About the Christmas Star (Tereza Ramba and Vojtěch Kotek)
Photo: Czech Television
In the foothills of the Western Tatras, the director of the Christmas fairy tale, Karel Janák, found a suitable place to place a picturesque village where teacher Václav lives and where the star Denička appears, knocked to the ground by the jealous Proxima. After Twelve Months, the director returns to the winter stories.
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“Then I vowed not to shoot in the winter. But the film About the Poinsettia would lose its beautiful atmosphere without snow. So I had to break my resolve and embark on a winter filming adventure again, “said Janák.
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Viktor Preiss as a charismatic villain in the fairy tale The Watchmaker’s Apprentice
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According to the Czech Television, the watchmaker’s apprentice is “about games of destiny, love, human smallness, but also courage, dexterity and goodness of the main characters”.
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“The genre of a fairy tale is immortal, but not bottomless, and that is why certain motifs and schemes inadvertently repeat and resemble each other. Inventing, writing and realizing an original story is a matter of time. The fairy tale by director Jitka Rudolfová is in many respects atypical and original, and that is, I hope, a good sign, “says Viktor Preiss, the representative of the main role of the greedy watchmaker.
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Linda Rybová
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The co-production Czech-Slovak fairy tale About Healing Water will delight all fans of stories about love and justice on the second Christmas holiday. “I have loved fairy tales since I was a child. I think they basically shaped who I was. They influenced what I would be like when I grew up, what I believed in and what values I honored, “added Linda Rybová, who played the Lady of Waters and Springs.
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Television will start the new year with the comedies The Last Aristocrat or Owners, and on Sunday, January 3, ČT1 will also offer the first part of the new miniseries Božena. In the true story of the first Czech writer, the actress Anna Kameníková and Aňa Geislerová portray the famous Czech Republic in a total of four television films.
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