Fri 25.05.2018 | 17:20Marketa Lazarova (1967)
Section: Golden Slipper for Special Contribution in Children´s and Youth Cinema
Directed by: František Vláčil
Czechoslovakia, 1967, 162 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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This historic ballad is set in the mid-13th century, when robber knights attacked travelers on royal roads, while Christianity still fought against paganism, and human life had little value. Love, however, was still passionately potent. The title heroine is the virtuous girl Marketa Lazarová, predestined to a monastery. She's forced, however, to become the lover of a violent young man, Mikoláš, the son of the irreconcilable rival her clan, Kozlík of the Roháč's. Her love for Mikoláš causes Markéta to renounce her love for God, to whom she was originally promised.
Sat 26.05.2018 | 13:00Brave Kids (1975)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Films of My Childhood, Czechoslovakian Cinema: Film Music
Directed by: Věra Plívová-Šimková
Czechoslovakia, 1975, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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Friends Thomas, Hubert a Jozhka live their childhood in the town of Levin. Thomas lives with his aunt and uncle. He's full of ideas – to the annoyance of everyone else. He likes his classmate Blanka and wants to win the prize for the best student of the school to impress her.
Sun 27.05.2018 | 13:00Maria Theresa (2017)
Section: Special Mention
Directed by: Robert Dornhelm
Czech Republic, 2017, 203 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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The historical epic look at the life of the young Maria Theresa, who later successfully ruled for more than 40 years an empire that occupied the territory of twelve of today's European countries. The film unfolds from two crucial moments in her life – the story of her love and marriage to Francis Stephen and her ascension to the throne and attainment of the Hungarian crown. We see her relationship to the Habsburg court and to the outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession, when it was necessary to join with the major Hungarian Esterházy family.
Sun 27.05.2018 | 15:30Laika (2018)
Section: Czech Films and TV Production
Directed by: Aurel Klimt
Czech Republic, 2018, 88 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Life on the outskirts of a Russian city isn't easy for the dog Laika. After being captured, she is forced to train to be a pioneer cosmonaut. Soon after Laika's launch into space, a number of other animals are launched out of Houston in the U.S. and Russian Baikkonur. The animals wander through space and a black hole aids them in finding a distant planet. After a harmonious period of undisturbed coexistence with the local animals, two human cosmonauts arrive. Their harmony and even their animal lives are now at risk.
Mon 28.05.2018 | 08:30Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Films of My Childhood
Directed by: Karel Zeman
Czechoslovakia, 1955, 93 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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When a boy finds a live trilobite in a cave from which a river flows out of, he can't figure out how a creature that lived millions of years ago could be alive. Books and a visit to a museum don't help. In the end, the boy decides to follow old Verne's example, so he and his friends go on an expedition to prehistory. They go by boat into the cave and go back to the ice age and to the Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Carboniferous and Silurian periods. They have the opportunity to see in detail how many changes the Earth and life had to go through.
Mon 28.05.2018 | 11:10Brave Kids (1975)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Films of My Childhood, Czechoslovakian Cinema: Film Music
Directed by: Věra Plívová-Šimková
Czechoslovakia, 1975, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Friends Thomas, Hubert a Jozhka live their childhood in the town of Levin. Thomas lives with his aunt and uncle. He's full of ideas – to the annoyance of everyone else. He likes his classmate Blanka and wants to win the prize for the best student of the school to impress her.
Thu 31.05.2018 | 19:00Cutting it short (1980)
Section: Golden Slipper for Special Contribution in Children´s and Youth Cinema
Directed by: Jiří Menzel
Czechoslovakia, 1980, 93 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Francin, a brewery manager, feels like a hunted man. He really wants to please the board of directors in order to keep his job. He’d also like some quiet happiness with his beautiful wife Maryška, but she’s part of the problem. She’s passionate about life and cares little about social conventions, but all of the board members adore her. Francin therefore does not know how to tame her. His problems grow when his brother Pepin moves in with them. His ideas pull Maryška like a moth to a flame! These two find ways to cause trouble that the manager would rather not see...
Thu 31.05.2018 | 19:40Jan Kříženecký - A Pioneer of Czech Cinema
Section: Special Mention
, 0, 60 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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A Pioneer of Czech Cinema Jan Kříženecký Commentary zone In its eighth anniversary, the National Film Archive will also commemorate 150 years since the birth of Jan Kříženecký, a pioneer of Czech cinema. The set of this person's digitized films, accompanied by commentary, has taken several years of work to complete and collate. Both original camera negatives and original copies and other media were digitized. The first films created on our territory can thus be presented in a form that emphasizes their variety and materiality. The musical accompaniment to the film set was created by Jan Burian Jr. Jan Kříženecký (March 20, 1868 - February 9, 1921) was a Czech film director, a cinematographer, a businessman and a photographer – by trade an engineer. He began getting interested in film in the autumn of 1896, when he first saw the film works of the Lumière brothers at the hotel U Saského Dvora. In 1898, during the Exhibition of Architecture and Engineering in Prague, he and his colleague Josef František Pokorný bought a cinematographic apparatus and film material. With this equipment, Kříženecký made the first Czech films, which he presented at the Czech Cinemas Pavilion at the Exhibition. Screenings of life in Prague and the first live-acted films with Josef Šváb-Malostranský were shown here. Kříženecký continued in film production but, due to the obligations of permanent employment, only temporarily. He later filmed the live-acted film interlude for the theater performance The Best Number (1902), extensive reportage of the IV. and V. All-Sokol Rally (1901, 1907), and various news from the Jubilee Exhibition of the Chamber of Commerce and Trade in 1908. His last extant film, dedicated to the monument to František Palacký, was completed in 1911. In addition to cinematographic achievements, Jan Krizenecky was also known as a photographer. He took thousands of photographs of Prague between 1902 and 1915.
Fri 01.06.2018 | 13:05Brave Kids (1975)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Films of My Childhood, Czechoslovakian Cinema: Film Music
Directed by: Věra Plívová-Šimková
Czechoslovakia, 1975, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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Friends Thomas, Hubert a Jozhka live their childhood in the town of Levin. Thomas lives with his aunt and uncle. He's full of ideas – to the annoyance of everyone else. He likes his classmate Blanka and wants to win the prize for the best student of the school to impress her.
Fri 01.06.2018 | 14:00The Emperor's Baker, the Baker's Emperor (1951)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Films of My Childhood
Directed by: Martin Frič
Czechoslovakia, 1951, 144 min
Projection place: Malá scéna
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Emperor Rudolf II is more interested in art, beautiful women, and alchemy than in ruling. Most of all, he wants to get the elixir of youth and find the legendary Golem. As he focuses on his hobbies, the supreme courtiers, led by chamberlain Lang, join Rudolph's brother Matyas, who seeks the throne. Due to a mistaken identity, the baker Matěj Kotrba becomes the ruler; he looks very similar to the emperor, just twenty-five years younger. He will deal with the prominent courtiers, issue useful orders, and use the Golem to benefit everyone.