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Current AffairsPrices for filming in Prague to go up
Earlier this week, Prague Town Hall approved new conditions for filming in the capital, particularly in the old centre of the city. While until now, Prague seemed to be a cheap paradise for foreign film crews, in the near future it might become as expensive as Western European cities. Alena Skodova reports:
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Current AffairsFormer underground Summer Film School a unique opportunity for dialogue
The annual Summer Film School, which gets underway in the south Moravian town of Uherske Hradiste on Friday, is the most important event of its kind in the Czech Republic. Several thousand mostly young people will have a unique opportunity to not only watch films but also take part in open discussions with directors, writers and actors. Jiri Kralik is the director of the school, and though he is too young to have been involved in the school from the very beginning, he told Radio Prague a little about its history.
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Central Europe TodayCET - The Film Industry in Central Europe
In this week's Central Europe Today, Dita Asiedu looks at the state of the film industry in the region and speaks to Jolanta Galicka from Film Polski and Hungarian producer Laszlo Kantor to find out how popular movies from the post-Communist Central Europe have been in the last few years and whether it has become easier to produce them since the fall of communism:
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One on OneJan Bradac - head of Falcon Film
Jan Bradac is the managing director of Falcon film, a Czech distribution company that holds a theatrical licence for Sony and Buena Vista Int'l here in the Czech Republic. Jan took over at Falcon five years ago when he was 27, just two years after starting at the company as a sales manager; today Jan is known to everyone who is anyone in the film business here. As managing director of Falcon he oversees bringing block-busters like Spider-man to Czech screens. Jan also puts a lot of stock in Czech films (such as this year's The Year of the Devil currently in competition at the 37th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and past documentaries like Jana Chytilova's The Plastic People of the Universe). For Jan Bradac is both a matter of pride as well as good economic sense. Tune in to One on One to hear him discuss the intricacies of the Czech film business today.
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Current AffairsStar Wars premiered in Prague
For the first time in memory, a major american film opened in the Czech Republic at the same time as in the United States. The film was Star Wars, Episode 2, attack of the clones which opened at shortly after midnight on the 16th of May, because of the time difference, even earlier than in the US. Paul Margulies was there to ask the question, "what makes someone want to be a Jedi Knight at a midnight movie?"
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Current Affairs The Czech Republic popular - and cheap - for foreign film makers
On Thursday, an American stuntman was killed during the filming of a Hollywood movie called Triple X in Prague. In recent years, locations in Prague and the Czech Republic as a whole have become immensely popular with film crews from Western countries. Alena Skodova has more:
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Current AffairsFilming at Terezin banned following porn film outrage
A strict ban on video and film cameras was introduced on Monday at the Czech Republic's Terezin memorial, in response to claims in a tabloid newspaper that a porn actor-producer was planning to use the former concentration camp as the setting for his latest erotic film. The Czech tabloid Super claimed on Saturday that porn star Robert Rosenberg was working on a new film called "The Way It Was," featuring shots of SS officers having sex with female prisoners. Unsurprisingly, Terezin's mayor as well as groups representing former political prisoners are outraged. has more.
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Czechs in HistoryVIKTOR PONREPO - founder of the first permanent cinema in Prague
Last month a new multiplex cinema opened its doors to the people of Prague. With 12 screens and 2,702 seats - and as many parking spaces - it is the largest cinema complex in the Czech capital. So what? you may think. Indeed, there is nothing too special about it; only it opened almost 75 years to the day after the death of the founder of the very first cinema in Prague - Mr. Viktor Ponrepo. By . More
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