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Luminaries of the Czechoslovak literary world showed up in droves last week for the Frankfurt Book Fair, and no fewer than five of the nation's top film directors, including Jan Nemec, Milos Forman and Jan Kadar, met at Manhattan's Lincoln Center Film Festival last week and discussed their futures...
Most have plans to work abroad for a while, but none will renounce Czechoslovak citizenship. Says Jan Kadar, who co-directed The Shop on Main Street: "We have a solidarity with our government and our people. It was a miracle. Never was a people so united on so high an ethical level...
What was up in the Kremlin? Into Moscow last week flew Hungary's Party Secretary Janos Kadar and Premier Gyula Kallai. Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Jozef Cyrankiewicz, already in town, suddenly decided to prolong their visit, and Czech President Antonin Novotny was due to arrive early this week. The presence of so many Red leaders set off a flurry of speculation. Had they been called to prepare the groundwork for expulsion of Red China from the international Communist movement? Was it some sort of a summit session on East-West relations or nuclear arms control...
Even the Communists of Eastern Europe, who in the past were content to condone China's aberrations in order to gain more leverage from the Sino-So viet split, are now roundly denouncing the Red Chinese as "insane." Hungarian Communist Boss Janos Kadar calls the events in China a "national tragedy." East Germany has accused the Red Chinese of "encouraging the cult of Mao to boundless excesses...
Czechoslovakia is the latest country to have splashed up a new wave of fresh, original films by a coterie of talented directors and writers. "It's not a wave, it's a flood," proudly says Jan Kadar, whose The Shop on Main Street (co-directed by Elmar Klos) won this year's Oscar as the best foreign film. Within the past three weeks, two other Czech films have opened in Manhattan, and an astonishing 55 more have been acquired for U.S. distribution in the near future. Already festooned with garlands of laurels from European competitions, Milos Forman...