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Czech Republic
Hádková Jana
Den pro devatery varhany
The Legend about Kisch
A documentary essay about the life and work of Czech-German-Jewish author and journalist Egon Ervín Kisch. In exploring Kisch's complicated personality, the film also deals with the paradoxes of the first half of the twentieth century.
High Water
Five chapters by leading Czech documentary filmmakers on August 2002 when Prague was besieged by the worst flood in five hundred years.
The Theatre in a House
Two days of work and life in a new theatre building which belongs to the Husa na provázku theatre in Brno.
I´m Czech, So What?
A film survey by Jan Burian on the issue of "Czechness" set to his music with words by Benny Andersen.
The Periodical Literární noviny - a Struggle of Barriers
Documentary film that, on the basis of the history of the periodical Literární noviny, evokes the period and thinking of the 1950s and 1960s in Czechoslovakia. Writers and journalists A.J. Liehm, Josef Klíma, Ludvík Vaculík, Alexandr Kliment and others give their testimonies.
Terezín
An abbreviated version of the film City with a Seal of Tragedy (dir. Jana Hádková, 2005) capturing the fate of the Czech town of Terezín from its inception to the apocalyptic years 1939 - 1945.
A Memory of the Long Pilgrimage
A documentary about an American woman of Czech origin, who entered the US Army during the World War II.
We and Matterhorn, Matterhorn and We
This documentary film make us acquainted with situation of Czech expatriates in Switzerland, where a part of our inhabitants took to in 1968.
Kriminální policie aneb na jménech nezáleží
The Legend about Kisch
A documentary essay about the life and work of Czech-German-Jewish author and journalist Egon Ervín Kisch. In exploring Kisch's complicated personality, the film also deals with the paradoxes of the first half of the twentieth century.
High Water
Five chapters by leading Czech documentary filmmakers on August 2002 when Prague was besieged by the worst flood in five hundred years.
The Theatre in a House
Two days of work and life in a new theatre building which belongs to the Husa na provázku theatre in Brno.
I´m Czech, So What?
A film survey by Jan Burian on the issue of "Czechness" set to his music with words by Benny Andersen.
The Periodical Literární noviny - a Struggle of Barriers
Documentary film that, on the basis of the history of the periodical Literární noviny, evokes the period and thinking of the 1950s and 1960s in Czechoslovakia. Writers and journalists A.J. Liehm, Josef Klíma, Ludvík Vaculík, Alexandr Kliment and others give their testimonies.
Terezín
An abbreviated version of the film City with a Seal of Tragedy (dir. Jana Hádková, 2005) capturing the fate of the Czech town of Terezín from its inception to the apocalyptic years 1939 - 1945.
A Memory of the Long Pilgrimage
A documentary about an American woman of Czech origin, who entered the US Army during the World War II.
We and Matterhorn, Matterhorn and We
This documentary film make us acquainted with situation of Czech expatriates in Switzerland, where a part of our inhabitants took to in 1968.
Kriminální policie aneb na jménech nezáleží
Jana Hádková, chief commissioning editor, Dept. of Documentary Programming, Czech TV. Born April 4, 1952. Since August 2006 – chief commissioning editor at Czech TV. 2004 – 2006, freelancer. 1993 – 2004, Krátký Film Praha, script editor, director. 1977 – 1992, Film Institute (now National Film Archive), academic researcher. 1970 – 1975, Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism, Charles University. Filmography: Monographs: Drahomíra Vihanová, Václav Hapl, Zdeněk Smetana, Jan Špáta. Cooperated with film magazines and journals: reviews and critical texts about documentary films. Jury member at numerous international film festivals – 3x Krakow, Karlovy Vary, Finále Plzeň, Techfilm. Since 1993, she has made more than 80 documentary films. Among others, documentary programmes for Czech TV - Posezení s Janem Burianem (110 episodes since 1995), Dokumentární film pro pamětníky (28 episodes), Kapitoly z českého animovaného filmu (8 episodes) and a number of singles, e.g., Vzpomínka na dlouhou pouť (55´), Mezihry-Joseph Haydn (55´), Literárky (58´), Karikatura jako obraz světa (58´), Nová nová vlna (59´), Fanatik tvořivosti (E.F.Burian) (59´), Legenda o Kischovi (58´), etc. In 2005, she made Město poznamenané tragédií (59´), a documentary film commissioned by the Terezín Memorial. 2007 – Den pro devatery varhany (52´), Czech TV. She has twice won the Trilobite Award and her films received several awards at documentary film festivals. 1986 - 2002, lecturer at FAMU, Department of Documentary Film. Since 2005, lecturer at Film Academy of Miroslav Ondříček (FAMO), Písek.
Czech TV
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Kavčí hory
140 70 Prague 4