Czech-Slovak-Canadian Film And We Got What We Wanted Premieres in Cinemas

Czech-Slovak-Canadian Film And We Got What We Wanted Premieres in Cinemas

On New Year’s Eve, Czechs, Slovaks and a Canadian woman meet in one apartment. This is not the beginning of a joke about national stereotypes, but the premise of the Slovak-Canadian film And we got what we wanted, which rather avoids humor. A chamber drama from the night when the brotherly countries are definitively divided … Read more

Director Jan Hřebejk Reveals Details of Famous ‘Pelíška’ Movie Scene from 1999

Director Jan Hřebejk Reveals Details of Famous ‘Pelíška’ Movie Scene from 1999

Many of us can’t even imagine Christmas without the movie Beds. Director Jan Hřebejk (56) has now revealed details about one of the most famous scenes of this film. The roar of aircraft engines shakes the whole house, the grandmother embodied by Stella Zázvorková picks up the phone. Anyone who knows the film Pelíška knows … Read more

Historical Nodules: The Real Story Behind the Iconic Nickname

Historical Nodules: The Real Story Behind the Iconic Nickname

You can guess how the nickname came about Knot? And did you know that the character’s real name will be heard in Beds instead of this nickname? “It’s said once in the movie, in the scene with the glasses,” points out in the interview Silvia Maryško Koblížkováwhich transformed Uzlinka. Thorough work by Jan Hřebejk “Beds … Read more

Remembering Stella Zázvorková: A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of a Czech Icon

Remembering Stella Zázvorková: A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of a Czech Icon

From nanny to queen, Stella became famous as one of the greatest Czech female comedians of the 20th century. However, her acting range was considerably wider – from the nanny in the Crazy Sad Princess to the caring mother Majerová in the series Arabela to, for example, Queen Anežka in the fairy tale How the … Read more

Comrades from the GDR would be amazed. Café Pelíšek offers quality Turkish, Gotťák was also there

Comrades from the GDR would be amazed.  Café Pelíšek offers quality Turkish, Gotťák was also there

Pelíšky is one of the films that Czechs can watch again and again and still never get tired of it. Those who would like to enjoy them other than on TV at Christmas can visit the cafe in Prague’s Radotín, opened by husband and wife Eva and Vladimír Barák. Time stood still there in the … Read more

June Sees Record Tourism Numbers in Linz Thanks to Major Events and Cultural Offer

June Sees Record Tourism Numbers in Linz Thanks to Major Events and Cultural Offer

The strongest month so far for tourism in Linz was June with 104,058 overnight stays. For comparison: In June 2019 – the year in which the highest numbers were documented so far – there were only 88,331. However, three major events took place in June with the SBÄM, the Bubbledays and the Lido Sounds, which … Read more

Covid patients now account for half of the beds in the Hospital Clínico de Málaga

“Some very hard weeks”. That’s how resounding a professional Clinical Given the healthcare pressure that the hospital is receiving, the one that has the highest income with Covid from the Malaga province and one of the most ill with this pathology attends Andalusia. Those infected with the virus occupy around half of the beds in … Read more

New head of the DEA in Washington, with experience in fighting Mexican drug traffickers

Writing / La Voz de Michoacán Washington, United States. The new special agent in charge of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) division in Washington, Jarod Forget, is a veteran with experience fighting the Mexican cartels. Forget spent several years working in the DEA office in Guadalajara, one of the 10 offices that the agency has … Read more

Professor from AK St. Georg: “We adhere to minimum staffing levels” | NDR.de – Nachrichten – Hamburg

As of December 18, 2020, 8:23 p.m. In the Hamburg Journal, the head of the intensive care department of the AK St. Georg defended himself against allegations. Minimum staffing levels would be respected, he said. The beds in Hamburg’s hospitals are becoming scarce – also because of the corona pandemic. The Hamburg Journal reported on … Read more

New York close to running out of hospital beds

(ANSA) – NEW YORK, DEC 09 – The number of available hospital beds is declining as a second coronavirus surge is taking over the New York region, new state data revealed The percentage of available beds in both New York City and Long Island is less than 20%, warned health sources. In the city, 81% … Read more