Sokol Spirit’s 3rd Friday - CZECH FILM SERIES

PRESENTING OUR EDUCATIONAL LINE-UP OF CZECH FILM CLASSES

(English Subtitles) on the 3^rd Friday of the Month.  The Czech films start at 7pm in our Czech classroom upstairs and with donation of $5 you get a free pilsner, pop, or water. Our Czech language instructor will be introducing you to all the film background and will be there to answer questions. This is our 11^th season!                                                                                                   

MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!!!!!

February 20 WHEN A DRAGON GETS A HEADACHE / KDYZ DRAKA BOLI HLAVA; 2018; 98 Minutes; Color; English Subtitles; Rating: G. Barborka and Tomik spend holidays with their grandparents in a blacksmith’s workshop under a Dragon rock. A small two-headed dragon Cmoudik helps there too. One day, the children plan to spend the night in a cave together with the dragon. Accidentally, they discover an old map on a cave wall and Cmoudik, whose one head speaks Czech and the other Slovak, begins to tell a thrilling story about a Kingdom of Dragon. He tells the children about a great love of Princess Adelka and Prince Janek, about a curse and a terrible dragon, evil sprite Blivajz, and also about a mystery of a Forget-me-not Meadow, lost dragon egg and a pair of kangaroos. From the American Sokol Lending Library.

March 20 Nowhere in Moravia / Díra u Hanušovic; 2014;  99 minutes; Color; English Subtitles; Rating: PG-Language & Sexual content, no nudity; This is the portrait of village life often painted in British films: nothing happens, nothing improves, and you'll waste your life if you stay there. Like My Sweet Little Village (Shown 1/2015 & 11/2024), there were plenty of dry one-liners. Maruna, a German teacher and the pub owner in a small town, sleeps with the mayor and a roofer while looking for love. Miroslav Krobot’s morosely funny Nowhere in Moravia is a downbeat portrayal of small lives, set in a tiny village where life takes forever. The opening hours of the local hospoda marks the passing of time, and there are two main ways out – by bus and by coffin. I laughed far more during Nowhere in Moravia than I do in most mainstream American comedies these days, and there is much joy to be had from the bric-a-brac of ordinary life tucked in the corners of cinematographer Jan Baset Střítežský’s gorgeous compositions. Some of the more farcical elements could be straight from the pages of Hrabal, and a thread of small-town ennui traces back at least as far as Rozmarné léto (Capricious Summer (Shown 6/2016; & 6/2019). The lightweight story centers around thirty-something Marun. From the American Sokol Lending Library.

April 17 KOLJA/KOLYA; 1996; 105 Minutes; Color; English subtitles; Rating: PG-13. (Last shown 9/2013 & 5/2021). František Louka, a 55-year old Czech man dedicated to bachelorhood and the pursuit of women, is a concert cellist struggling to make out a living by playing funerals at the Prague crematorium. He has lost his previous job at the Czech Philharmonic (the Stern Quartet, Czech Philharmonic plays) due to having been half-accidentally blacklisted as "politically unreliable" by the authorities. A friend (Broz, the gravedigger) offers him a chance to earn a great deal of money through a sham marriage to a Russian woman, his niece, Nadezda to enable her to stay in Czechoslovakia. The woman then uses her Czechoslovak citizenship to emigrate and join her boyfriend in West Germany.  After her aunt unexpectedly dies, Louka finds himself in custody of his new “stepson”, due to a concurrence of circumstances; she must leave behind her Russian-speaking five-year-old son, Kolya, for the disgruntled Czech musician to look after.

May 15 Taxi 121/ Taxi 121; 2016; 90 Minutes; Color; English subtitles; PG-13 Violence; Brief scenes of intercourse; Based on real events in Czechoslovakia from 2014, Taxi 121 tells the story of a serial killer who targeted three taxi drivers in Prague. The official police version attributes the murders to a single perpetrator whose psychological profile is still under speculation. David Panek’s feature debut presents his take on the true events from 2014 that deeply affected Czech society.  That year, a serial killer murdered three taxi drivers in Prague.  This tragedy inspired Panek to create a gripping thriller that immerses the viewer in the story, evoking a wide range of emotions.

Sokol Spirit’s Education Committee reserves the right to change movies due to circumstances beyond their control.

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