Director Miklós Jancsó creates a bizarre psychodrama set after the fall of the 1919 Hungarian Soviet republic, encompassing postwar trauma and erotic overtones
Miklós Jancsó’s mysterious film from 196…
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In Berlin, I took an evening class on fascism – and found out how to stop the AfD | Tania Roettger ⊖⊖
With the far-right party ahead in the polls, I discovered that a novel set during the rise of the Nazis provides a timely warning
In 1932, the Berlin-born writer Gabriele Tergit set out to memorialise…
81 days ago
The Effingers by Gabriele Tergit review – a vivid portrait of Berlin before the Nazis ○
Written in 1951 and now translated into English for the first time, this family saga by the acclaimed German author recaptures a golden age for Jewish life
In 1948, the German Jewish author Gabriele T…
83 days ago
Brian Cox on Tom Stoppard’s sensational Rock’n’Roll: ‘I looked through the curtain and saw Mick Jagger and Václav Havel’ ⊕
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The actor, who starred as a Marxist academic in the acclaimed 2006 play at the Royal Court, remembers an astonishing writer of ideas and elegance
By the time I was cast in Rock’n’Roll in 2006 I had be…
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Holocaust survivor who fled from Nazi tyranny to Britain on the Kindertransport dies aged 95 - as tributes hail her 'strength and courage' ⊕
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Vera Schaufeld was told when she was nine years old that she had to move to England on her own following the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Thousands in Slovakia and Czech Republic rally against leaders on Velvet Revolution anniversary ⊕
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The Velvet Revolution in 1989 brought an end to decades of Soviet-dominated communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia, which peacefully split into two nations in 1993.
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‘He should be known as a film music revolutionary’: revitalising the legacy of Czech composer Zdeněk Liška ○
The electroacoustic pioneer scored dozens of pictures – and communist propaganda. Too successful to be persecuted by the politburo but largely forgotten when he died, his music is being revived by a …
6 months ago
Prague commemorates 1968 Soviet-led occupation of Czechoslovakia ○
The Czech Republic marked the anniversary of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia on Thursday with memorial events in Prague and across the country.
Why there are fears of Munich 1938 in Washington 2025 ○
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Putin is focusing on a deal that would grant him Ukraine's key defensive lines, just as Hitler secured Czechoslovakia's fortifications in 1938.
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Exposing ‘the illegals’: how KGB’s fake westerners infiltrated the Prague Spring ○
Kremlin’s most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern bloc
During the spring of 1968, as revolutionary sentiment …