See what’s coming up on on the BCSA’s Events Calendar.
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, Dr. Barbara Day MBE will be speaking about Czechoslovak underground universities in the 1970s and 80s and their relationship with institutions in Britain. Barbara is the author of The Velvet Philosophers which presents a detailed account of the conditions in which the underground universities... Read more »
A celebration of the life and work of Jiri Suchy, performer, singer-songwriter, writer, composer and poet whose songs and plays span generations and who has become a Czech national icon. Director Olga Sommerova looks back at the more than 60 years of Suchy’s creative life associated with his legendary Prague Semafor theatre and inspired by... Read more »
A winner of the best actor award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and Slovakia’s entry for the Oscars. It is Christmas, and Milan, who's been working in Germany to provide a better life for his family, returns home to discover that his prolonged absence has taken its toil. His eldest son is now... Read more »
with actor Jiri Schmitzer and directors Martin Dusek and Ondrej Provaznik. Vlasta and Tonda, WWII veterans and ex political prisoners, now elderly and infirm, have one last mission – to find and kill the communist prosecutor who once jailed them and escaped justice. Gearing up for the job with an old pistol and a rusty... Read more »
The Lucky Four - Fifinka, Pinda, Bobík and Myspulin - live in a small house in the picturesque village of Treskoprsky. One cosy night, sitting around a camp fire in their garden, they share stories of the best adventures they had last year: a successful climbing trip to the Devil’s Thumb, tracking a mysterious werewolf,... Read more »
Cherry-picked from the Venice, Berlin and Annecy International Film Festivals, including the winner of the 2019 Student Academy Awards, this selection showcases the best Czech animations from FAMU, one of the top international film schools. The animated black comedy Happy End offers an overview of stereotypical Czech characters while The Kite is a touching tale... Read more »
Humorous, spontaneous dialogues, acutely observed situations and natural performances fuel fresh film energy into this conversation based film revolving around Sasa, Karel and Dusan. Sasa moves in with her friend Dusan when taking a break on her marriage to Karel which seemed to have fizzled out. While providing a support, and a sound board to... Read more »
Currently in residence at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, London, the Czech ensemble took its name from that of a compatriot cellist who himself founded the historic Czech String Quartet. Here it champions works from its country, including one by Gideon Klein, who died in a Nazi labour camp. Gideon Klein (1919-1945) String Trio Josef Suk (1874-1935)... Read more »
The Greek Passion is a passion play within a passion play. At the beginning of the opera, members of a remote community are assigned roles in an Easter performance – including Manolios, who will play Christ, Katerina (Mary Magdalene) and her lover Panait (Judas). However, the sudden arrival of a group of refugees from a... Read more »
UK premiere of a portrait of Milos Forman (1932–2018), Oscar-winning director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and Amadeus (1984). Forman began his career as a New Wave filmmaker in the Czech Republic before emigrating to the US, where he lived an impoverished existence in the Chelsea Hotel. The director eventually found Hollywood... Read more »
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