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Director
Stan Neumann
Original idea
Stan Neumann
Production company
Les Films d'ici ...
Director of photography
Richard Copans
Editor
Catherine Adda
Financial Support
- Eurimages support

A House in Prague

Dům v Praze/Une maison a Prague, Czech Republic, France, 1999, 80 min, Creative, Portrait

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In his youth an anarchist and an agitator, later a zealous communist and even later a critic of Klement Gottwald, but mostly a famous and successful poet; Stanislav Kostka Neumann was all these things. Since the 1890's, his family has owned a villa in Olšany in Prague. This house was later the meeting place for an anarchist literary group, and the magazine New Cult was established here. Over the century which has passed from this time, the house has known several generations of the Neumann family, their loves, fights, separations and divorces. Actor Stanislav Neumann lived here, who is well-known for his role as the king in the Czech fairy tale Pyšná princezna (The Proud Princess); yet less known is the fact that he was a passionate Stalinist. Having regained ownership by restitution, today the descendants of S.K. Neumann live in this house and they have been trying to return it, one of the oldest in Žižkov, back to life. Director Stan Neumann, grandson of the famous poet, tells of the history of his family home and his family, but also of the whole nation, how it developed from the First Republic through the war, through the long period of communist rule and up to the post-revolution period.

Director:

Stan Neumann

Original idea:

Stan Neumann

Screenplay:

Stan Neumann

Executive producer:

Věra Laštuvková, Serge Lalou

Director of photography:

Richard Copans

Sound:

Zbyněk Mikulík