Apparently according to the Czechposition.com the American movie Star Wars has been a great success in the Czech Republic. You want a proof? Just look at the numbers: in a recent nationwide census 15,070 Czechs (0.31%) identified themselves as the ‘Jedi Knights’ believing in ‘The Force’. That’s a BIG number!!! [click to continue…]
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New websites with Czech movies discovered! And the best thing is that it’s free. AND the come with subtitles!!!
CZ: Nove webove stranky s ceskymi filmy, na ktere se muzete divat zadarmo!
http://www.youtube.com/user/filmgoria
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I have been living in this culture long enough to know that movie The Wizard of Oz to Americans is something like the Czech movie Popelka to Czechs. It is the ultimate classics.
Although I have not warmed up to that movie too much now I know I will be changing my ways. Why? One of the CMD readers sent me a link to the LA Times which had a long article about a 4’4″ dwarf-actor named Karl Slover who recently passed at the age of 93 and his most popular role was acting as one of the munchkins in The Wizzard of Oz.
So far it’s a pretty uneventful story until I tell you that Karl Slover was born in Slovakia (former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and yes, the LA Times has that information wrong) as Karel Kosicky. [click to continue…]
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Did you know that Bill O’Reilly has a twin brother? Yes, it’s true! His name is Luis De Funes and all of the Czechs know him from a comedy movie we used to watch (at least once a year) when we were kids called “The policeman from San Tropez” (Cetnik ze San Tropez).
Am I right or am I right?
CZ: Neprijde vam, ze Bill O’Reilly ma francouzkeho dvojnika Luis de Funese? Jestlize ne, tak se poradne mrknete na tyto fotky:
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Are you ready to compete and win a prize? The rules are simple: watch the following YouTube video and write down in the comment section what movies are these quotes taken out of. There are a total of 23 movie titles you should come up with.
The winner will get a framed picture of the Prague castle (see the attached image). The picture itself is a copy of the original pencil drawing, which is also available for sale.
CZ: Jste pripraveni soutezit o cenu? Jestli ano, podivejte se na nasledujici video nejlepsich filmovych hlasek z ceske kinematografie. Na videu je ukazano celkem 23 filmu. Jestlize si myslite, ze muzete prijit na vsech 23 filmovych nazvu, napiste je do komentu a ja je ohodnotim, nebot mam pri sobe tahak 
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A co ze vyhrajete za cenu? Zaramovany obrazek Prazskeho Hradu (viz. foto). Obrazek je kopie originalu, ktery je take k mani.
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According to the Hollywood Reporter, FAMU (Film Academy of Musical Arts in Prague) is the best film school in Europe. It ranked number 7 (!!) from 25 other most prestigious film schools in the world, which is a huge success. The first place won the famous American Film Institute, the second place goes for the University of Southern California, and the third place goes to the Film Academy in Peking. [click to continue…]
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Czech movie 'Katka'
If you live in London or somewhere in its vicinity I encourage you to check out a couple of contemporary Czech movies (Protektor and Katka) which were selected to be part of the new Czech Cinema UK tour called Made In Prague.
If you do go, please let us know whether you liked them or not!
CZ: Jestlize zijete v Londyne (nebo nekde v jeho blizkosti), doporucuji vam navstivit dva nove ceske filmy: ‘Katka’ a ‘Protektor’. Byly vybrane do anglickeho filmoveho festivalu zvaneho Made In Prague. [click to continue…]
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Calendar for May is done! Don’t miss out on Houby Days Festival in Cedar Rapids or Nebraska Czechs festival in Lincoln. Also, if you haven’t seen a Czech movie called “A little piece of heaven” rent a little plane on May 12th and fly to Washington DC – a piece of cake.
CZ: Je tu kalendar na kveten a s nim veleznamy Houby Festival, nebo Nebraska Czechs of Lincoln festival. Jestli jste jeste nevideli film zvany “Kousek nebe”, 12. kvetna nasednete do privatniho jetu, smer ceska ambasada ve Washingtonu.
1. Cedar Rapids, IA
When: May 15
2. New York, NY (Czech Center)
What: “Kriess” concert (performs European music of 13th to 15th century)
When: May 6
3. Astoria, NY (Bohemian Hall)
What: 1910 Costume Ball (100th anniversary of Bohemian Hall)
When: May 1
4. Lincoln, NE
What: Nebraska Czechs of Lincoln Festival
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Maybe you guys have already seen this World War II documentary but if you haven’t you definitely should. Tonight! “Into the Arms of Strangers” tells a story of a kindertransport, a train transport heading for England that saved the lives of over 10,000 Jewish children, from which many of them were Czech. In fact, one of the interviewed people was Eva Hayman from Celakovice, who was about 10 years old when she boarded that train never to see her parents again.
WARNING: This movie is a tear jerker.
CZ: Jestli jste jeste nevideli dokument zvany “Into the Arms of Strangers”, hned si ho dneska objednejte na Netflix, abyste na nej nezapomneli! Shlednuti tohoto filmu je naprosta nutnost. Vypravi se v nem o tzv. ‘kindertransportu’, zeleznicnim prevozu 10,000 zidovskych deti ze zemi jako je Nemecko, Rakousko, Polsko a Cechy, do bezpecne Anglie.
Jedna z dotazovanych osob je pani Eva Hayman z Celakovic, ktere bylo kolem 10-ti let, kdyz do jednoho z techto vlaku nastoupila, aniz by se v budoucnosti opet shledala se svymi rodici.
VAROVANI: Film vas asi rozbreci
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It is a Czech tradition to watch specific fairy tales on TV during Christmas and the New Year holidays. When I was a little girl, our country was rulled by communists so we were ‘prescribed’ to watch the Russian fairytale “Mrazik” (see the YouTube video bellow). It was pretty much on all the time and all of the kids knew the movie monologues by heart. Do you keep this tradition even though you live abroad now?
CZ: Tak co, divate se o Vanocnich prazdninach na ceske pohadky nebo jste tuto tradici v zahranici uz vzdali? Doufam, ze ne! Volte a pak si pripomente pohadku Mrazika v nasledujicim YouTube videu:
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