See what’s coming up on on the BCSA’s Events Calendar.
An online Zoom talk by Daniel Majer about the political role Czech protest music has played in Czech and Slovak history from the Austro-Hungarian empire until today. Following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Karel Kryl composed ‘Bratříčku, zavírej vrátka’ (Keep the gates closed, little brother) as his reaction to the occupation. In... Read more »
The first Royal Opera House production of Janáček's opera since 2001 is now available to watch on demand until 14 November https://stream.roh.org.uk/free-titles/videos/jenufa It will also be broadcast on 23 October on BBC Radio 3 @ 6.30pm and subsequently available for about a month see here photo Asmik Grigorian (Jenůfa) © ROH | Monika Rittershaus
A SSEES Study of Central Europe Seminar with Chad Bryant. Vojtěch Berger was a carpenter, a member of the interwar Czechoslovak Communist Party, and an obsessive diarist who lived in Prague from 1921 until his death forty years later. For Berger and other party members, including top Communist leaders, Communism was much more than a... Read more »
A special screening of the digital restoration in 4K of Gustav Machatý’s 1933 defiant masterpiece: the UK premiere of this cult classic film. Probably the most widely seen Czech film of all time, it stirred controversy and uproar due to its portrayal of female nudity and suggestive sexual content and shot its director and the... Read more »
The riveting story of a Czech Olympic icon and one of the greatest runners of all time, Emil Zátopek, who became a global byword for sportsmanship and generosity and who was driven into obscurity by the Communists after standing up for ‘socialism with a human face’. An inspiring portrayal of the Czech Olympic legend Emil Zátopek,... Read more »
A programme by the Jubilee Quartet based on the moving work that Vilém Tauský wrote in November 1940 after going into Coventry with a Czech Free Army ambulance and seeing the smouldering ruins of the cathedral. Tauský was stationed in Leamington with the Czech Free Army . 2021 Leamington Music Autumn Season Tauský Coventry: A... Read more »
Buoyant romantic comedy about non-traditional parenting and love inspired by a popular blog by Dominik Landsman describing his experience as a new father who decides to stay at home and look after his child. Welcome to my world, welcome to hell’. The world and words belong to Dominik, anaspiring young writer and now stay at... Read more »
Are we doing enough or too little for our children? In this absorbing documentary Erika Hníková raises questions about raising children following hyper-competitive parents who devote all their time to maximising their son’s physical and academic potential. Swimming, running, piano lessons, hockey practice, endurance training, bilingual language games, bike riding and tennis; every possible exercise... Read more »
When Herra, a Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan man, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in Afghanistan, nor about the family she is about to join. While studying Economics in Prague, blue-eyed, blonde Helena falls in love with her schoolmate Nazir and a few months later moves... Read more »
A powerful and striking portrayal of a close-knit village community on the Czech-Austrian border between the 1930s and the 1950s where everyone must choose their allegiances when faced with shifting territories and conflicting ideologies. Marie, a Czech, is married to Karel, an older German, and lives with quiet dignity and kindness a happy family life.... Read more »
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