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Dec 12, 2001 · As Milos Fikejz, a historian from the National Film Archives says, today's Ponrepo cinema - located in the same building as the archives - is not the first movie theatre of this name in Prague....
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- The Defenestration
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“Hus preached many things that were not so much in contrast with what the medieval Church and especially the reform-minded members of the church were saying themselves. It was a time of a Church crisis that almost everybody perceived and wanted to solve. Both Hus and his judges,who condemned this eventually had the same aim – to reform the Church. ...
“Some appeared at the sermon with weapons hidden under their clothes. There are also more hints that suggest it was prepared and pre-negotiated with members of the more radical Hussite wing in both the New and the Old Town of Prague. "One thing worth mentioning is that we don’t know exactly what Jan Želivský preached. We have written sermons, but t...
“It was an important part of a chain of events. Another very important factor, which isn’t connected to the defenestration, was the death of king Wenceslas IV. “The chronological coincidence is significant, because the heir to the throne was Sigismund, the brother of Wenceslas. He was the one blamed for the death of Jan Hus, because he was the secu...
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May 23, 2020 · What happened there on that fateful spring day – 23 May 1618 – had a long back story and appalling, long-term results. It would herald the beginning of a Bohemian revolt against the Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II, which in turn helped spark the Thirty Years' War. Twilight descends upon Prague Castle.
Jan 6, 2022 · By the mid-19th century, however, nationalistic impulses led to the desire to have a theater where opera and drama could be performed in Czech. Above the proscenium of the National Theatre in Prague, whose cornerstone was laid on May 16, 1868, are the words Národ sobě (A nation unto itself).
US-resident Forman and DOP Miroslav Ondříček were able to shoot scenes in the Estates Theatre in Prague, where Don Giovanni and La clemenza di Tito debuted two centuries before. Other scenes were filmed at Barrandov Studios and the city’s Invalidovna complex.
Aug 23, 2018 · Jan Culik tells the story of the Prague Spring of 1968 and the invasion by Warsaw Pact countries, which took place 50 years ago this week.
