Word: czechs
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...enthusiastic fossil hunter who fantasized about time travel and scoured abandoned quarries. Now 35, Hrebejk has traded his geology hammer for a camera, and become an accomplished director with four acclaimed features and an Oscar nomination. Since his latest film, Pupendo, opened March 27, it has become the Czech Republic's top-grossing movie since 1989, pulling in an estimated $2.2 million at the box office in its first seven weeks. But deep down, the Prague native remains the amateur paleontologist of his childhood. Today, he travels in time through his movies, and the fossils he excavates are buried...
Pupendo is not enjoyed; Pupendo hurts. All the same it's a great film. - PAVEL DOSTAL, Czech Culture Minister
...only structure to the day was the meal schedule: breakfast at 7:30 a.m., lunch at noon and dinner at the faintly ridiculous time of 5:30 p.m. The cook was an ebullient, roly-poly Czech named Victor, who had had a previous career as a lounge singer in the U. S. The cuisine was the only category in which the Ingrid Oldendorff failed to match the standard of the cruise ships I've sailed with: the meals were ample, well cooked and tasty enough but monotonous, with an emphasis on meat and potatoes and garnished alternately by pickles...
...suicide note. "I feel as though I don't belong in this era." He concluded that a spectacular suicide was the only way to get "people to search their consciences and try to lessen the evil they commit every day." After parts of the note were published in the Czech media, Roman Másl read it and "his eyes were glowing when he told me about it," says Lucie Hlavínová, his confidante and schoolmate. "He admired what he did." And then he copied it. Late in the evening of April 1, Másl packed...
...psyche is riven by dual realities - the country that was and the one that is; the loss of both human lives and "the very imprint of humanity in us." To portray that divide in Ararat - which has just opened in the U.K. and Portugal, and comes to Italy, the Czech Republic and Israel this week - Egoyan created a film within a film. His movie is a contemporary tale of two families' searches for truth and reconciliation as they struggle with uncertainty, insecurity and the legacy of denial. One central character is a Canadian-Armenian director named Edward Saroyan (Charles Aznavour...