Your favorite film screening programs came to the end this year. The Czech Centre closes the Documentary Mondays programme with
Citizen Havel, on November 25 and the Fiction Tuesdays series with
Kolya, on November 26.
While the autumn went by, the film evenings at the Czech Center referred to a series of important events of the Czech world of the normalization period and of the late socialism, of the revolutionary movement in 1989 and finally, in the `90s – represented by a film directed by Věra Chytilová, by means of the story of the Czech poet Magor and by means of the films that will be screened this final week.
The documentary Citizen Havel, made by Pavel Koutecky during 12 years, allows an overview of the defining elements for the end of Czechoslovakia and for the building of the new state of the Czech Republic in a period marked by incertitude on the global level, but at the same time it offers the nuanced portrait of the dissident artist who became president after the Revolution, bringing a sincere and warm tribute of Václav Havel`s personality and allowing the viewer to see his faults and weaknesses. This documentary will be screened on Monday, on November 25, 2019 and it
presents a biographic portrait of Havel during a long period of time. It doesn`t show usual and well-known events from the media, as many would expect, but many sincere moments from the backstage, such as the president`s preparations for the famous meeting at the NATO Summit in 2002, the visit with Bill Clinton, at the beginning of 1994 and the death of Havel`s wife in 1996.
On Tuesday, the audience will get the chance to watch
Kolya, directed by the well-known director Jan Svěrák. The film received The Oscar and the Golden Globe in 1997 for the Best Foreign Film. It is the story of a former concert cellist of the Prague Philharmonic. Being a confirmed bachelor, he lives to chase younger women, but surprisingly, he accepts the proposition that a friend of his made him – to marry a Russian woman for a fee, so that she could become a Czech citizen. It`s just that immediately afterwards, she emigrates to West Germany, leaving Louka with her sickly 5-year-old Kolya which made the authorities be suspicious about the sham marriage.
The access is free. The screenings start at 20:00. The Czech Centre continues its tradition – the beer is on the house.
Details:
Documentary Mondays //
Fiction Tuesdays
