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Faceted Depictions of War: On Jan NÄ›mec’s ‘Diamonds of the Night’ (Démanty noci)
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Faceted Depictions of War: On Jan NÄ›mec’s ‘Diamonds of the Night’ (Démanty noci)

By
Michael Barrett
/ 15 April 2019

Are fantasies mixed up with memories in Jan Němec's film adaptation of Arnošt Lustig's autobiographical story of surviving WWII, Diamonds of the Night (Démanty noci)? Will these babes forever be in the woods?

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Jáchym Topol Deserves Your Attention

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John L. Murphy
/ 27 August 2013
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Like Dreams, Riveted in the Dark: ‘Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave’

By
Michael Buening
/ 23 August 2012
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Missed Connections: Tom McCarthy’s ‘Men in Space’

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Michael Buening
/ 19 March 2012
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‘The Haunting Cinema of Frantisek Vlasil’: a Political Allegory and a Sensitive Study of Childhood

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Sarah Boslaugh
/ 13 October 2010
‘The Greengrocer and His TV’ Is About the Politics of Television: Czechoslovakia, Circa 1968
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‘The Greengrocer and His TV’ Is About the Politics of Television: Czechoslovakia, Circa 1968

By
Alan Ashton-Smith
/ 27 May 2010

Paulina Bren’s The Green Grocer and His TV filters the culture of Czechoslovakian communism post-1968 through the television sets that were burgeoning in popularity during this period.

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Private Century

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Shaun Huston
/ 27 October 2009

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