New Wave director Pavel Juráček remembered
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: October 8, 2014, 19:00 – 21:00
An evening dedicated to one of the key figures of the New Wave of Czechoslovak cinematography in the 1960s, a close friend of Václav Havel’s, author of now legendary Diaries (Book of the Year in a Lidové noviny poll in 2004), and an artist persecuted by the regime who died a mere six months before 17 November 1989.
The programme includes a reading from the first volume of the works of Pavel Juráček entitled Prostřednictvím kočky (By Means of a Cat), the recollections of his son Marek Juráček and Miloš Fikejz, and a screening of the film Joseph Killian.