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Czech Republic
Strnad Pavel
Miserable Prague - Islands
This documentary series was created through the initiative of director Štěpán Kačírek who became interested in historian Josef Kroutvor's essays from the magazine Revolver Revue. The documentary shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Miserable Prague - Miss Braník
The documentary cycle Praha mizerná shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Miserable Prague - Welcome to Eden
The documentary cycle Praha mizerná shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Marcela
The extraordinary life of an ordinary woman. The fifth part of a series entitled "Marriage Stories" featured Marcela, whose story started in 1980 at the Prague town hall. Still in black and white, the film follows events over a period of six years. In 1999 we re-enter her life, but shooting has to be interrupted after her daughter Ivana is hit by a train. Four months later, shooting resumes. The audience, moved by her difficult life, decided to help the despairing mother. The film captures the events of the past year.
Miserable Prague - Smíchov
The documentary cycle Praha mizerná shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Miserable Prague - Bílá Hora and Ruzyně
The documentary cycle Praha mizerná shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Panenka Against the Rest of the World
An interesting film which is neither a documentary nor pure fiction. It focuses on the renowned footballer of the 1970s and 1980s, Antonin Panenka, and the philosopher of nonsense and happenings, Eugen Brikcius. Appearing alongside the narrator/sports commentator Brikcius and actor/football Panenka is Pavel Landovský, first as another footballer and later as an unseen spectator. The film ends with the famous archive footage from the European Football Cup in Belgrade in 1976 - Panenka's game-winning penalty kick.
Miserable Prague - A Tenement Is a Friend
A poetic/philosophical essay about the life in highrise developments. A documentary film about people who search for their identity and freedom within the space of concrete highrisers.
Miserable Prague - Other Sentiments
This quarter, Holešovice... I consider it a suburb, I do. And I do mean it nicely: Because for me, a suburb isn't Jižní město and the like, I don't think that's really Prague. But these historic suburbs...from the end of the last century and so on...that remains.
Miserable Prague - The Shards of a Republic
This documentary series was created through the initiative of director Štěpán Kačírek who became interested in historian Josef Kroutvor's essays from the magazine Revolver Revue. The documentary shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today. In the twenties, it was decided that a public bid would be announced for this monument. A number of important architects took part in the contest. Then, in 1950 it was decided that the monument would serve as a burial site for prominent representatives of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and for prominent artists.
Home
This is a personal exploration of the physical and mental repercussions of emigration. In 1969 a pregnant 18-year old girl flees her country with her married lover as the Russian tanks roll into the streets of Prague. They end up in Norway. They have a daughter. They become successful in the world of theater. At the height of fortune the beautiful mother decides to send her 15-year-old daughter away. They are never to live together after that. Now the mother lives in Los Angeles and the father has moved back to Prague. Contact between the family today is primarily through sporadic phone calls for the mother. The movie is an emotional journey of the daughter trying to map the disintegration of the family. It is an intimate story of her own family, with gleams of her childhood in Norway, her exile in the USA, and her "return" to the Czech Republic. Scenes of lonely characters set in different landscapes intercut with tragicomic meetings of family members who live their separate lives in various countries. The author is searching for answers to find out where her true home really is, searching in Prague, Oslo and Los Angeles.
Cooking History
A documentary film about army cooks. It shows how the everyday need of thousands armed stomachs affects the victories and defeats. About the field "kitchen" as a model of a world where food preparation becomes a fight strategy; a fight for great ideals standing on strong legs of the kitchen table. The film is based on eleven recipes of the cooks since the Second World War till the war in Tchechenia; from France through the Balkans to Russia.
Citizen Havel
In the course of 13 years the crew has filmed 45 hours of images and recorded 90 hours of sound material. This truly unique material offers new looks behind the scenes of international politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, and also into events in a post-totalitarian country during its transition to democracy. Václav Havel was a key figure in the great changes that took place in central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s - the film material captures his work and influence both in his country and internationally. Among the truly unique events captured on film is Bill Clinton's State visit to the Czech Republic in January 1994, including the private part of the visit, when he went to the Reduta jazz club in Prague. Other events are the historic 2002 NATO Summit in Prague, Václav Havel formulating his position for a statement during the Prague meeting of the International Monetary Fund: "I sympathize with opponents of the IMF, and I'm also anti-establishment, but now I represent the country hosting the meeting"...
René
This raw authentic documentary film tells the story of René whose life was being captured on camera since he was seventeen. The camera followed his hopeless journey between prison and brief periods outside the prison walls. In 2008 the film comes to an end, leaving the now 37-year-old René as a sick man who still gets in trouble with the law and who is also the author of two published books. René's story begins in prison under socialist posters, continues through the so-called Velvet Revolution of 1989 and gets a seemingly happy conclusion with the amnesty decree issued by President Václav Havel. Yet René soon heads back to prison and also celebrated our EU accession from behind the bars. During the years spent in prison - sentenced mainly for theft - René had his whole body covered in tattoos, escaped from prison only to be soon recaptured, burgled the director's home, was involved in a couple of romantic relationships, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis as well as a high IQ. René displays his outlook on life by flashing his "Fuck of People" tattoo on his neck.
Miserable Prague - Genius Loci Rides a Bicycle
This documentary series was created through the initiative of director Štěpán Kačírek who became interested in historian Josef Kroutvor's essays from the magazine Revolver Revue. The documentary shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Miserable Prague - The Birth Place... Libeň
This documentary series was created through the initiative of director Štěpán Kačírek who became interested in historian Josef Kroutvor's essays from the magazine Revolver Revue. The documentary shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Miserable Prague - The Heroes of Our Time
This documentary series was created through the initiative of director Štěpán Kačírek who became interested in historian Josef Kroutvor's essays from the magazine Revolver Revue. The documentary shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Miserable Prague - The Sky over Karlín
This documentary series was created through the initiative of director Štěpán Kačírek who became interested in historian Josef Kroutvor's essays from the magazine Revolver Revue. The documentary shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Miserable Prague - Old Dejvice
This documentary series was created through the initiative of director Štěpán Kačírek who became interested in historian Josef Kroutvor's essays from the magazine Revolver Revue. The documentary shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Klamovka
A documentary film with animation on the legendary Košíře pub with music from the kindered pop groups Echt!, Národní třída and Psí vojáci.
Private Universe
Honza was born in 1974 into the cheerless era of socialism in Czechoslovakia. At that time, his parents Jana and Petr lived in one room in the apartment of Jana's divorced mother and her widowed grandmother. A few years later, the family moved from Prague to Liberec where Petr found a job and a little house for the family. When Honza was born, his father began writing a family chronicle and he has continued to do so for 37 years. Private Universe shows not only the life of one ordinary family but also how the Czech society has changed in the last four decades. Who are we, where do we come from and where do we go?
This documentary series was created through the initiative of director Štěpán Kačírek who became interested in historian Josef Kroutvor's essays from the magazine Revolver Revue. The documentary shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Miserable Prague - Miss Braník
The documentary cycle Praha mizerná shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Miserable Prague - Welcome to Eden
The documentary cycle Praha mizerná shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Marcela
The extraordinary life of an ordinary woman. The fifth part of a series entitled "Marriage Stories" featured Marcela, whose story started in 1980 at the Prague town hall. Still in black and white, the film follows events over a period of six years. In 1999 we re-enter her life, but shooting has to be interrupted after her daughter Ivana is hit by a train. Four months later, shooting resumes. The audience, moved by her difficult life, decided to help the despairing mother. The film captures the events of the past year.
Miserable Prague - Smíchov
The documentary cycle Praha mizerná shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Miserable Prague - Bílá Hora and Ruzyně
The documentary cycle Praha mizerná shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Panenka Against the Rest of the World
An interesting film which is neither a documentary nor pure fiction. It focuses on the renowned footballer of the 1970s and 1980s, Antonin Panenka, and the philosopher of nonsense and happenings, Eugen Brikcius. Appearing alongside the narrator/sports commentator Brikcius and actor/football Panenka is Pavel Landovský, first as another footballer and later as an unseen spectator. The film ends with the famous archive footage from the European Football Cup in Belgrade in 1976 - Panenka's game-winning penalty kick.
Miserable Prague - A Tenement Is a Friend
A poetic/philosophical essay about the life in highrise developments. A documentary film about people who search for their identity and freedom within the space of concrete highrisers.
Miserable Prague - Other Sentiments
This quarter, Holešovice... I consider it a suburb, I do. And I do mean it nicely: Because for me, a suburb isn't Jižní město and the like, I don't think that's really Prague. But these historic suburbs...from the end of the last century and so on...that remains.
Miserable Prague - The Shards of a Republic
This documentary series was created through the initiative of director Štěpán Kačírek who became interested in historian Josef Kroutvor's essays from the magazine Revolver Revue. The documentary shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today. In the twenties, it was decided that a public bid would be announced for this monument. A number of important architects took part in the contest. Then, in 1950 it was decided that the monument would serve as a burial site for prominent representatives of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and for prominent artists.
Home
This is a personal exploration of the physical and mental repercussions of emigration. In 1969 a pregnant 18-year old girl flees her country with her married lover as the Russian tanks roll into the streets of Prague. They end up in Norway. They have a daughter. They become successful in the world of theater. At the height of fortune the beautiful mother decides to send her 15-year-old daughter away. They are never to live together after that. Now the mother lives in Los Angeles and the father has moved back to Prague. Contact between the family today is primarily through sporadic phone calls for the mother. The movie is an emotional journey of the daughter trying to map the disintegration of the family. It is an intimate story of her own family, with gleams of her childhood in Norway, her exile in the USA, and her "return" to the Czech Republic. Scenes of lonely characters set in different landscapes intercut with tragicomic meetings of family members who live their separate lives in various countries. The author is searching for answers to find out where her true home really is, searching in Prague, Oslo and Los Angeles.
Cooking History
A documentary film about army cooks. It shows how the everyday need of thousands armed stomachs affects the victories and defeats. About the field "kitchen" as a model of a world where food preparation becomes a fight strategy; a fight for great ideals standing on strong legs of the kitchen table. The film is based on eleven recipes of the cooks since the Second World War till the war in Tchechenia; from France through the Balkans to Russia.
Citizen Havel
In the course of 13 years the crew has filmed 45 hours of images and recorded 90 hours of sound material. This truly unique material offers new looks behind the scenes of international politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, and also into events in a post-totalitarian country during its transition to democracy. Václav Havel was a key figure in the great changes that took place in central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s - the film material captures his work and influence both in his country and internationally. Among the truly unique events captured on film is Bill Clinton's State visit to the Czech Republic in January 1994, including the private part of the visit, when he went to the Reduta jazz club in Prague. Other events are the historic 2002 NATO Summit in Prague, Václav Havel formulating his position for a statement during the Prague meeting of the International Monetary Fund: "I sympathize with opponents of the IMF, and I'm also anti-establishment, but now I represent the country hosting the meeting"...
René
This raw authentic documentary film tells the story of René whose life was being captured on camera since he was seventeen. The camera followed his hopeless journey between prison and brief periods outside the prison walls. In 2008 the film comes to an end, leaving the now 37-year-old René as a sick man who still gets in trouble with the law and who is also the author of two published books. René's story begins in prison under socialist posters, continues through the so-called Velvet Revolution of 1989 and gets a seemingly happy conclusion with the amnesty decree issued by President Václav Havel. Yet René soon heads back to prison and also celebrated our EU accession from behind the bars. During the years spent in prison - sentenced mainly for theft - René had his whole body covered in tattoos, escaped from prison only to be soon recaptured, burgled the director's home, was involved in a couple of romantic relationships, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis as well as a high IQ. René displays his outlook on life by flashing his "Fuck of People" tattoo on his neck.
Miserable Prague - Genius Loci Rides a Bicycle
This documentary series was created through the initiative of director Štěpán Kačírek who became interested in historian Josef Kroutvor's essays from the magazine Revolver Revue. The documentary shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Miserable Prague - The Birth Place... Libeň
This documentary series was created through the initiative of director Štěpán Kačírek who became interested in historian Josef Kroutvor's essays from the magazine Revolver Revue. The documentary shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Miserable Prague - The Heroes of Our Time
This documentary series was created through the initiative of director Štěpán Kačírek who became interested in historian Josef Kroutvor's essays from the magazine Revolver Revue. The documentary shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Miserable Prague - The Sky over Karlín
This documentary series was created through the initiative of director Štěpán Kačírek who became interested in historian Josef Kroutvor's essays from the magazine Revolver Revue. The documentary shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Miserable Prague - Old Dejvice
This documentary series was created through the initiative of director Štěpán Kačírek who became interested in historian Josef Kroutvor's essays from the magazine Revolver Revue. The documentary shows zones of old-time atmosphere that are gradually disappearing, and city outskirts that may not be Prague's best asset but which make Prague what it is today.
Klamovka
A documentary film with animation on the legendary Košíře pub with music from the kindered pop groups Echt!, Národní třída and Psí vojáci.
Private Universe
Honza was born in 1974 into the cheerless era of socialism in Czechoslovakia. At that time, his parents Jana and Petr lived in one room in the apartment of Jana's divorced mother and her widowed grandmother. A few years later, the family moved from Prague to Liberec where Petr found a job and a little house for the family. When Honza was born, his father began writing a family chronicle and he has continued to do so for 37 years. Private Universe shows not only the life of one ordinary family but also how the Czech society has changed in the last four decades. Who are we, where do we come from and where do we go?
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