Prague Spring
-
-
A certain kind of president’s last days
BIOGRAPHY: Havel's legacy as a dissident, playwright, and president, highlighted in a film that contrasts his ideals with today's political climate.
-
Returning to ruins
PHOTOGRAPHY: Legendary Magnum photographer Josef Koudelka revisits more than 200 Hellenistic and Roman ancient cities he had shot over the past 26 years.
-
Karel Vachek: Films just have to make you laugh!
Director Karel Vachek just died, so we publish this interview. Fifty years after Prague Spring and thirty years after the Velvet Revolution, he looked back on the evolution of our society and predicts a transformation to direct democracy.
-
The end of representative democracy(?)
DEMOCRACY: In a 6-hour film essay, Karel Vachek weaves a collage of collective memory to show the exposure, conflict, crisis, and catharsis of the post-communist society.
-
-
Soft power
A documentary from the time when American films portrayed Soviet commissionaires changing sides to betray communist ideals, and Soviet television showed CIA agents gunning down innocent comrades.
