16 Nov 2020
A Portrait of N. B.
Through his own photographs, the Basque artist Néstor Basterretxea (1924-2014) is portrayed by the art critic and exhibition curator Peio Aguirre, a great connoisseur of his work and personal archives.
Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaborating with the secret police, Jaroslav Foglar can’t find a bottle-opener, and Ivan Diviš makes observations about his own funeral. This is the Czech Republic in the late 90s, as detailed in Karel Vachek’s documentary.
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Václav Havel 
Mejla Hlavsa 
Dagmar Havlová Veškrnová 
Egon Bondy Ivan Martin Jirous Pavel Dostál Milan Knížák Josef Janíček Jiří Kabeš Jan Brabec Joe Karafiát John Bok Stanislav Brebera Vratislav Brabenec Jim Čert 
Jan Saudek Miloš Zeman Petr Uhl Lída Rakušanová Dana Němcová
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