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1415 articles available in total starting from 04/10/2002. Last article published on 20/08/2025.

Bathory controversy on and off the screen

A legend has many faces reads the byline of Juraj Jakubisko’s ambitious new co-production, Bathory, which is to be released in theatres around Europe this October. The symbolism could not have...  

15/03/2007 | Production | Czech Republic

Sveráks’ Empties makes record entry

It takes them an average of five and a half years to reappear with a project but every time writer-actor Zdenek Sverák and director Jan Sverák resurface it is with a bang. Their new film Empties,...  

13/03/2007 | Box Office | Czech Republic

Menzel gets Lion’s share of prizes

Jirí Menzel’s I Served the King of England won the lion’s share on March 3 of the 13th Czech Lions, the Czech film industry’s top honours, receiving four awards, including Best Film and Best...  

05/03/2007 | Awards | Czech Republic

Sveráks have hands full with Empties

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo Di Caprio eat your hearts out. In Prague, when it comes to adoring a double act, no one can beat the father-son duo of Zdenek and Jan Sverák. Six years after his...  

28/02/2007 | Releases | Czech Republic

King of England dominates nominations

A few days before its first screening in the Berlinale’s official competition the news for Jirí Menzel and his box office smash hit I Served the King of England could not have been better....  

12/02/2007 | Awards | Czech Republic

State support goes up 100%

Last year, Czech filmmakers went on strike, criticising the then Minister of Culture’s failure to push a new film law through Parliament, which, among other things, would have guaranteed improved...  

08/02/2007 | Funding | Czech Republic

Menzel’s King of England will travel to Berlin

In 1990, Jirí Menzel won the Golden Bear in Berlin for Larks on a String (Skrivánci na niti) a film with a 21-year delayed premiere, as it had been banned by the regime in communist...  

16/01/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Czech Republic

High expectations as top brass return

If 2006 was the year of expectations for Czech cinema, then 2007 should be the year of fulfillment. Twenty Czech films are scheduled for release between now and Christmas, with half of them being...  

09/01/2007 | Preview 2007 | Czech Republic

Czech films dominated money-making 2006

And the band played on…alias Czech Cinema 2006. In spite of the local industry’s own pessimistic predictions and a complete failure of the state in introducing an adequate film law, Czech films...  

05/01/2007 | Box Office | Czech Republic

Admissions up 25%

Czech film distributors, and subsequently filmmakers, are breathing a sigh of relief this week as news of increasing cinema admissions have been revealed. According to figures released by the...  

31/10/2006 | Box office | Czech Republic

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