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1478 articles available in total starting from 04/10/2002. Last article published on 13/03/2026.

Empties continues record-setting pace

Empties by Jan Sverák continues its record-breaking pace in the Czech box office. While continuing to dominate the weekly charts the film passed the 700,000 total admissions mark this week, making...  

19/04/2007 | Box office | Czech Republic

Sveráks and Krauze back in competition

Jan and Zdenek Sverák’s film Empties, which is on course for a new domestic box office record, has been included in the official competition programme of the Karlovy Vary International Film...  

18/04/2007 | Festivals | Czech Republic

Czech film studios feel the heat

An easterly wind is blowing in the Barrandov and Prague Studios these days. Executives from the Czech Republic's two best-known studios are sitting uncomfortably over more indications that foreign...  

27/03/2007 | Industry | Czech Republic

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

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