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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Fadni odpoleone

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  • Pearls of the Deep

    A manifesto of the Czechoslovak New Wave, this omnibus film consists of five shorts by five filmmakers. Němec’s segment, Impostors, is a portrait of t
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  • The Party and the Guests

    An idyllic picnic with a group of friends is interrupted by an invasion by authoritative strangers, who playfully turn the picnickers into their 
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  • Oratorio for Prague

    Intended to capture the hopeful atmosphere of the Prague Spring, Němec instead filmed its transition into the bloody occupation of Czechoslo
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  • A Memory for the Present

    Disturbing archival images of World War Two are juxtaposed with Němec’s observations of a post-war ‘liberated’ Czechoslovakia. A montage as a visual p
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  • Martyrs of Love

    A luscious non-political musical comedy, this three-part ballad uses music to stand in for dialogue. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy an
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  • A Loaf of Bread

    Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Young prisoners exhausted by famine plan to steal some bread from a German train. Němec’s first film alread
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  • Between Minute 4 and 5

    Forbidden to work on fiction, Němec was assigned to direct a social documentary. Focusing on Prague’s emergency services, this was his last
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  • The Strahov Demonstration

    An unprecedented demonstration of discontent by students in 1967 leads Němec to give them a voice on camera – much to the displeasure of th
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  • Lalie polné

    Soon after World War One, veterans of the conflict trek through the countryside as beggars, tramps and musicians. Two of them, the clarinetist Hejges and…
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