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NEWSLETTER
10/2024
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Dear Friends of the Museum of the Memory of the Twentieth Century,
The days of October are already passing in anticipation of the Unbroken and Sacrificed Film Festival. It is also heralded by two seminars that we are organizing at the Atlas Cinema. That is, in the place where at the beginning of November the festival will be in full swing. You are cordially invited to be there with us!

INVITATIONS

Seminar "Film as a museum medium" // Kino Atlas, Prague / 16 October 2024

We would like to invite the professional museum public and others interested in the topic of film seen through the lens of the museum medium to a seminar entitled "Audiovisual media in current exhibitions". The first accompanying event to the festival Unbreakable and Sacrificed will take place on Wednesday 16 October at 1 pm in the Blue Hall of the Atlas Cinema (Ke Štvanici 371/4, Prague 8). Representatives of the Lidice Memorial and the Museum of Memory of the XXth Century will present their films and audiovisual museum works.
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Seminar "Coping with the Legacy of Communist Justice"// Atlas Cinema, Prague / 23 October 2024

The second seminar will also take place in the Blue Hall of the Atlas Cinema on 23 October 2024 at 6 pm. The event will be attended by historian Petr Blažek, judge Ivana Janů, attorney Hana Kordová Marvanová and Kamil Nedvědický from the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (co-organizer of the event). For more information, see the museum's website.

UNBREAKABLE AND SACRIFICED |5-8OCTOBER 2024

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This year, the 5th edition of the international film festival will commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. It will focus on the events of 1989, not only in Czechoslovakia but also in other Soviet bloc countries. Visit one of the screenings or the rich accompanying programme!

SELECTION FROM THE PROGRAMME

MAIN SHOW


  • 4. 11. 20:00 // Festival Eve: premiere of the film The Smell Trail
  • 5 November 19:30 // Opening evening: awarding theJaroslava Jander Award to the Guardian of Memory
  • 5. 11. 18:00 // Premiere of the film General Sergei Vojtechovsky, prod. MPXX
  • 6. 11. 19:30 // Screening of the film My Father, the Prince : Authors Lila Schwarzenberg and Lukas Sturm will personally participate in a discussion after the screening.
  • 7. 11. 20:00 // Ukrainian premiere of Family Album
  • 8. 11. 19:30 // Screening of Olga Sommerová's new documentary Juráček je mojj destiny
ACCOMPANYING PROGRAMME


  • Film screenings for schools // every festival morning, see here
  • 5. 11. 15:30 // Seminar with film samples: the image of November 1989 in Czech feature films
  • 7. 11. 10:00 // Student Film Showcase: film screening The Countryman Who Won the Student Oscar
  • November 7, 18:30 // Cáry of old films: presented by František "Čuňas" Stárek
  • 8. 11. 16:00 // Original videojournal in November 1989
  • 8. 11. 17:30 // Czechoslovak Television News and Student Broadcasting in November and December 1989

BELLS OF MEMORY

Bells of memory

The project commemorates personalities who stood up to totalitarian regimes and contributed to the victory of freedom and democracy in our country. ZSt. Nicholas Cathedral in Prague will sound and will be sounded at 3 pm.

5 October under Václav Havel,
18 October for Svatopluk Karásek,
22 October for Jiří Hájek
and 26 October for Jiří Křižan.

COLLECTION ITEM OF THE MONTH

Manuscript of the novel 1984

The manuscript of George Orwell's novel 1984 became a collector's item in June this year on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition 1984: George Orwell and Czechoslovakia.
It was donated to the Museum by Quentin Kopp, President of The Orwell Society, who added a personal dedication. The book was published in a limited edition of 1,000 copies, making it a valuable collector's item. The foreword was written by D. J. Taylor, who has written several books on Orwell's life (the most recent of which is entitled Orwell: The New Life).


RIGHT NOW

Exhibition European GULAG // War Memorial, Lešetice / until 17 November 2024

The exhibition is on display in Vojna Lešetice Memorial. The Vojna camp belonged to the complex of forced labour camps at the Czechoslovak uranium mines in 1949-1951.

SOURCE

Video of the debate on the SNP

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising, David Svoboda and his guests Vilém Prečan, Jan Rychlík and Michal Macháček met at the Václav Havel Library for a debate. They discussed the changes in the evaluation of the meaning of the uprising over time.
Video from the opening of the exhibition 1984: George Orwell and Czechoslovakia

In the attic space of the Werich Villa, experts Jiří Gruntorád and Miroslav Drozd provided their insight into the topic of samizdat literature. The debate was moderated by historian Petr Blažek.



Video from the debate on Pavel Tigrid

The personality of Pavel Tigrid was discussed in the Libri prohibiti library Jaromír Talíř, Tigrid's former deputy, dissident Anna Šabatová and writer Pavel Kosatík. Moderated by Petr Blažek.



RECOMMENDED READING

PARTNER TIP
MEDIA COVERAGE OF OUR ACTIVITIES
  • Links to specific articles, interviews and reports.
PREPARING
  • November 11-12, 2024: Conference on (Not) Coming to Terms with the Communist Past, Lichtenstein Palace, Prague.
  • 13 November 2024 at 7 pm: Debate on Jazz Music as a Danger for Nazism and Communism / Nazism and Communism against Jazz Music, Libri prohibiti, Prague.
  • November 15, 2024 at 6 pm: Debate on Parallels of Development in Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) and Ukraine after 1989, Anti.quariát Dejvice Theatre, moderated by David Svoboda.
More information about the planned events will be available on our website.
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