Art and culture

From the legendary Otakar Vávra’s biopics of Jan Hus and Jan Žižka, up to the masterpiece Marketa Lazarová, the historical film is one of the most “Czech” genres With the anniversary of the death of Jan Hus last year, the numerous events scheduled to...

The story of the genius who never became famous. A Czech hero (and anti-hero), part myth, part reality Dressed in white, in the middle of a small wooden gazebo in the middle of a forest, an elegant and mustachioed gentleman focuses on a manuscript....

The intense relationship with the Peninsula of the King of Bohemia and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Historian Pavel Helan speaks to us about it In October 1332, near Modena, the young Charles, leading an army of five thousand soldiers, won his first...

The legendary Moravian athlete returns to the spotlight in the splendid comic panels drawn by Jaromír 99 and scripted by Jan Novák. The story of an extraordinary man, of his successes, of his legendary grimaces of anguish during races “Když nemůžeš, tak přidej”, the legendary...

The Czech cultural icon Zdeněk Svěrák, one of the most popular personalities of this country, had his 80th birthday. The celebrations also spread to other parts of the world, in arthouse cinema in various countries: from England to New Zealand, from Norway to Argentina...

In the dark years of the regime illustrators managed to make their art flourish in film posters. After 1989, the Czechoslovakian art of posters could not survive the advent of the Hollywood model Infinitely creative, sometimes sharp, biting, and often surreal. These are the...

After the explosion in the ‘90s, the classic used book stores in the Prague city centre are beginning to give way to the progress of online stores In every city in the world there are places, where as soon as you enter the doorway,...

While endless controversy surrounds the new film on the legendary Czechoslovak film star, a good documentary tries to shed new light on her life “I could have become famous as Marlene Dietrich”, she once said, a few years before her death, while smoking yet...

Maggio If there is a poem that best embodies and symbolizes Czech identity, it is surely “May” – by the poet and highest representative of Czech Romanticism, Karel Hynek Mácha (1810-1836). The famous poem, written in 1836, is notable for being the most printed,...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Jan Tomáš Forman, better known under his art name of Miloš Forman, the great Czech double Oscar winning film director, undoubtedly one of the most loved and discussed characters in film history Despite a tragic childhood eclipsed by...