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Current AffairsDirector Miloš Forman turns 80
Director Miloš Forman celebrates his 80th birthday on Saturday, and
newspapers in his native country are full of tributes. In the small
category of Czech artists who have conquered the world, Forman has a seat
among the likes of Antonín Dvořák and Milan Kundera and Czechs are
dulely proud of him for his success. But his approach to filmmaking and
style of direction also permanently altered the course of cinematography in
the Czech Republic and elsewhere, a fact we discussed earlier with Karel
Och, the artistic director of the Karlovy Vary International Film
Festival. More
ArtsA very private universe – Helena Třeštíková’s latest documentary “Soukromý vesmír”
Helena Třeštíková, the country’s leading documentary maker, has
released her latest project – a feature-length film titled
"Soukromý vesmír”, which chronicles the life of one Czech family
over a remarkable time span of 37 years. By adding archive TV footage and
putting the family’s story into a wider context, the director was able to
paint not just a family portrait, but also the portrait of a country. More
Czech HistoryHugo Haas - more than just a "foreign Ed Wood"
Hugo Haas was one of the stars of Czechoslovak cinema's golden age of the
1930s. This versatile actor and director was hugely popular in the First
Republic and he appeared in a number of classic films from that era.
Despite his success, however, Haas's life and career - like that of so
many other Czechs who lived during this period - was blighted by the tide
of history that swept through Czechoslovakia in the 20th century. More
Screen CzechScreen Czech
The undisputed most famous Czech director alive today, Milos Forman speaks
about his varied career in the Czechoslovakia and in Hollywood ahead of his
80th birthday. I’ll be talking to the model, singer and now actress Iva
Fruhlingova about what it’s like to make her screen debut and the ups and
downs of working with one of the most successful Czech directors still
resident in the country, Filip Renc. More
One on OneDocumentary filmmaker Martin Dušek on why his native region continues to inspire him
Martin Dušek, who often works with co-director Ondřej Provazník, is a
two-time winner of the main prize at the Jihlava International Documentary
Film Festival, the Czech Republic’s most prestigious documentary award.
His films “A Town Called Hermitage” and “Coal in the Soul” were
both shot in the former Sudetenland in North Bohemia, a border region whose
Sudeten German inhabitants were expelled from Czechoslovakia after the war.
Martin Dušek ’s latest film deals with his own Sudeten German heritage
– in a humorous and provocative way. I caught up the director to speak
about why this part of country continues to inspire him and how he
discovered his love for making documentaries. More
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