A book-format interview with the most famous Czech documentary film-maker spanning the years 2014-2016. Helena Třeštíková gained fame primarily for her longitudinal documentary studies. The most f...Read More
The painter Tomáš Bím and I were at one time near-neighbours, with only a few hundred metres between our houses on the Berounka river, in the vicinity of Dobřichovice. I fell in lov...Read More
The Czechoslovak Republic was born in the heads of a handful of people: T. G. Masaryk, Edvard Beneš, and M. R. Štefánik. During WWI, in exile, they managed to convince key statesmen to support...Read More
The Communist President Gottwald is in his fourth year in power. He might have reason to be happy, but no, being under the shadow of the Soviet dictator Stalin means being in constant fear for one’s...Read More
Czechoslovakia was one of the first countries overcome by the Nazis, but ex-President Beneš did not give up, even while exiled in Britain. It was in London that plans were laid to get rid of the hate...Read More
August 1968. The intervention of the armies of the Warsaw Pact finally stifles the Prague Spring. Its leaders depart for Moscow, to parley with the invaders to resolve the situation; the President of ...Read More