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Current AffairsFilm festival offers a chance to see an extraordinary forgotten movie from the fifties
Next week Prague movie-goers will have the chance to see a forgotten film
by the Oscar winning directors Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, who were legends
of the Czechoslovak cinema of the 1960s. But this is a film that most
would prefer to forget. "Unos" - or "Hijack" - from
1952 is Stalinist propaganda at its most crass - telling the story of two
wicked imperialists, who decide to escape from communist Czechoslovakia to
the West by hijacking a passenger plane, only to be "swallowed up in
the mud of the émigré camp".
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One on OneMarek Dobes - introducing zombies into Czech film
Pavla Horakova's guest this week is young Czech film director and
screenwriter Marek Dobes. This year Marek released his first feature film
called "Choking Hazard" which also screened at the Karlovy Vary
International Film Festival.
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Czechs TodayVojtech Jasny - a filmmaker in different eras
One of the symbols of the success of Czech cinema in the sixties is the
film director Vojtech Jasny. His best known work from that time is called
"All My Good Countrymen" - "Vsichni dobri rodaci" in
Czech. The film tells the story of a few friends living in a Moravian
village in the 1950's. More
Current AffairsThe most successful spoof in Czech history strikes a chord
The weekly The Economist has called it one of the funniest European films
of
the year and the most successful spoof in Czech history: we are of course
talking about Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda's "Czech Dream" - a
new documentary showing how two film students fooled hundreds of Czech
shoppers to believe in a non-existent new mall - with extraordinarily
funny results. Following initial success at home, the film went on to its
international premiere at Locarno last week and we caught up with one of
the filmmakers, Filip Remunda, via telephone to get a sense of the mood at
the prestigious fest. More
ArtsBookworld 2004, Prague cinema showing Czech films with English subtitles every single day
In the Arts this week we visit the Bookworld 2004 trade fair, which this
year focuses on literature from Ireland, Scotland and Wales. And we take
you to Kino Svetozor, a cinema with an interesting history which is now
showing Czech films with English subtitles every single day.
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MailboxMailbox
In this week's edition of Mailbox, we give you a few tips on where to look
for information on the Czech Republic, find out how you can get a Czech
film shipped to you, introduce the competition question for the month of
April, and of course announce the winner of last month's competition!
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Czechs TodayBenjamin Tucek - director of "Devcatko" (a few days in the life of a teenage girl)
Forget about the picture postcards you've seen of Prague the city of the
Renaissance and Baroque, palaces, and churches and a hundred golden
spires: there is a whole different city out there to be explored among the
pre-fabricated apartment blocks, edge of the town discos, concrete
passageways and concrete bridges. A city of night with a constant stream
of cars leaving for elsewhere: all form the backdrop for Benjamin Tucek's
2002 underground hit "Girlie" ("Devcatko" in Czech).
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One on OneBobby Garabedian - maker of an Oscar-nominated film in Czech, a language he cannot understand
Director Bobby Garabedian comes from Hollywood but it was a short film he
made in the Czech Republic, in the Czech language, which got him nominated
for an Oscar this year. The film's Czech title is Most (rhymes with cost),
meaning 'bridge', though the English title is Most (rhymes with toast). It
is a moving film about a man, brilliantly played by Vladimir Javorsky, who
is forced to choose between saving his son and saving a train full of
strangers, when an accident occurs at the rail bridge he operates. Bobby
Garabedian visited many European countries before deciding to make Most
here - I asked him why the Czech Republic.
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Press ReviewPress Review
All today's papers analyse the current tension in the governing coalition.
Similar headlines in Mlada Fronta Dnes, Lidove Noviny and Pravo say that
the junior coalition partner Freedom Union has decided to stay in the
government after all. Lidove Noviny writes that after a five-hour long
meeting on Sunday night, the national committee of the Freedom Union gave
its chairman and Deputy Prime Minister Petr Mares a vote of confidence.
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MailboxMailbox
In this edition of Mailbox: The Postal Museum, Zelary, CzechInvest and
Czech Trade. Listeners quoted: Vincento Pareli, Jim Kernsey, Ben Clanis
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