Behind the Scenes of the Cult Czech Teen Film: Snowboarders Turned Stars

Behind the Scenes of the Cult Czech Teen Film: Snowboarders Turned Stars

January 12, 2024 | 06:00 Time flies inexorably, and quite a few years have passed since the filming of Karel Janák’s cult comedy! The first Czech teen film at the beginning of the millennium was a great success. Almost 700,000 viewers came to see it in cinemas and it earned 61 million crowns! He then … Read more

Snowboarders 20 years later: A candid interview with Vojtěch Kotek and Jiří Mádl on fame, parenting, and freedom

Snowboarders 20 years later: A candid interview with Vojtěch Kotek and Jiří Mádl on fame, parenting, and freedom

“It was a huge cut in the lives of both of us,” says actor Vojtěch Kotek twenty years after filming the comedy Snowboarders. “We both experienced the same impact and one had to deal with it somehow,” adds his fellow actor and director Jiří Mádl about how the film affected their teenage lives at the … Read more

Interview with Vojtěch Kotek and Jiří Mádl: Waves Film and Czechoslovak Radio Events 1967-1968

Interview with Vojtěch Kotek and Jiří Mádl: Waves Film and Czechoslovak Radio Events 1967-1968

“When the camera was on, I experienced incredible moments of pride – in those moments when the characters were incredibly proud of what they had accomplished,” recalls the actor Vojtěch Kotek during the filming of the film Waves about events on the Czechoslovak Radio in 1967-1968. “It didn’t turn out well then, but those people … Read more

The Summer Episodes of Honza Dędek’s 7 Falls: Confessions of Actors, Director, Musician, and Olympian-Judoka

The Summer Episodes of Honza Dędek’s 7 Falls: Confessions of Actors, Director, Musician, and Olympian-Judoka

The summer episodes of the popular talk show Honza Dędek’s 7 falls will bring everything that was not included in the show in the past months. Today’s episode was filled with the confessions of actors Jiří Macháček, Jiří Mádl, Petra Nesvačilová, director David Ondříček, musician Vladimír Mišík and Olympian-judoka Lukáš Krpálek. Petra Nesvačilová and Jiří … Read more