email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

Czech Republic

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

1462 articles available in total starting from 04/10/2002. Last article published on 18/12/2025.

Karlovy Vary announces first selections

Organisers of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 30-July 8) promised “more quality as well as quantity” for this year’s event as they unveiled part of the 2006 programme. The...  

27/04/2006 | Festivals | Czech Republic

Slama and Rafters confirm most talked about status in Pilsen

Bohdan Slama’s Something Like Happiness and Karel Janak’s Rafters have confirmed their status as Czech Republic’s most talked about films of the last six months, during the awards ceremony of the...  

10/04/2006 | Festivals | Czech Republic

Rafters on course to rewrite records

Less than a week from its March 9 release, Czech teenager comedy Rafters (Raftaci) is on course to rewrite the country’s box office record books. Director Karel Janak’s second feature film had...  

15/03/2006 | Box office | Czech Republic

Something Like Happiness triumphs at the Lions

The fairy tale continues for Bohdan Slama’s Something Like Happiness (see making of), which performed a veritable smash-and-grab at Czech cinema’s 2006 Lions Awards ceremony. After its surprise...  

28/02/2006 | Awards | Czech Republic

I Served the King of England shooting set for spring

Jiri Menzel’s much awaited screen adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal’s "I Served the King of England" (Obsluhoval jsem anglickeho krala) will begin filming in March or April this year. The film’s...  

16/01/2006 | Production | Czech Republic

Prague shooting of Bond film confirmed

It is stamped and sealed. The latest in the James Bond films, Casino Royale, will be filming in Prague, from early next year. Barrandov Studios’ spokesperson Dusana Chrenekova confirmed that the...  

16/12/2005 | Production | Czech Republic

Local films take a break in favor of blockbusters

King Kong has a lot of screen enemies and needs to fight in order to survive but in the Czech and the Slovak box office it appears, he is given the perfect conditions to be a clear winner. Peter...  

16/12/2005 | Releases | Czech Republic | Slovakia

Three of the costliest films ever in the works

The film industry is full of contradictions and Czech cinema can testify to this. In a period when the world box office revenues have dropped significantly and state subsidies are deemed...  

08/12/2005 | Production | Czech Republic

Interview: Pavel Strnad • Producer

Initial instinct paid off

Pavel Strnad had a good feeling before embarking on the project with Bohdan Slama, simply because he has seen his previous work  

24/11/2005

Interview: Bohdan Slama • Director

Pleased when the viewer is pleased

His films, he says, are everyday stories that are told by him and judged by the viewer. If they accept them, it’s fine. In any case, he has to move on and prepare yet another tale  

24/11/2005

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

Privacy Policy