Jan Hřebejk’s newest film confronts the inhumanities of Communism—not with a gray, Cold War period piece, but a contemporary tale of aftershocks and jumbled truths. Subscribe to the weekly St. Louis ...
Still pumping out quality fare at the rate of almost a pic a year, prolific Czech helmer Jan Hrebejk (“Divided We Fall”) reunites with regular scripter Petr Jarchovsky for one of the duo’s most ...
A table from the fifth annual Kaw Valley Seed Fair is shown in this file photo from the Douglas County Fairgrounds, Feb. 8, 2014. With Valentine’s Day this Sunday, this installment of Weekend Guide ...
Photo still from the film, “Finding Farley,” playing during the Banff Mountain Film Festival. Still from the film, “Africa Revolutions Tour,” playing in the Banff Mountain Film Festival. Photo still ...
Potent political drama retains the humanist virtues of earlier Czech films. By Stephen Farber, The Associated Press TAORMINA, Sicily — The misdeeds of the Communist era, chronicled so memorably in the ...
History is written by the winners, but even after the ink dries, everyone---including the losers---still has to live with it. That's the gist of Jan Hrebejk's drama about an elderly Czech psychiatrist ...
The narrative of this 2009 Czech drama is engaging enough: a man who’s cheating on his wife learns that his father-in-law, a psychiatrist lionized for his resistance to the Soviet police state, in ...