Stories of the 20th Century TV

Post Bellum / Hlavní město Praha

The recordings were taken on two movie cameras in a mobile TV studio, using the Eye Direct technology.

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Cotemporary photography

Anežka Lišková

* 1933

Relative of a political prisoner

17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Litomiská Barbara, 1959

Bachelor Barbara Litomiská

* 1953

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jan Litomisky, 80'

Ing. Jan Litomiský

* 1943

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Dissident, Politician, Farmer

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 24. 4. 1978 – Formation of Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jaroslav Lobkowicz

Jaroslav Lobkowicz

* 1942

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee, Déclassé, Politician, Nobility

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation

Otokar Löbl during Eye Direct recording in Prague, 2022

Otokar Löbl

* 1950

Germany, Theresienstadt Ghetto, Journalist, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Sudeten Germans

1945 - 1947 Expulsion of Germans from former German East territories, 30. 5. 1945 – 29. 10. 1946 - Withdrawal of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Tomáš Lom 1945

Tomáš Lom

* 1924 †︎ 2021

A 1938 – 1945 emigrant/refugee, National minorities, Royal Air Force

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 13. 8. – 31. 10. 1940 - The Battle of Britain, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Gérard London

* 1943

Relative of a political prisoner

1948 - 1955 - Politic lawsuit in the Stalin age, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 20. 11. – 3. 12. 1952 – Rudolf Slánský’s trial, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1989 - The fall of the iron curtain

Jan Lorman

Jan Lorman

* 1946

Art and censorship, Life along the Iron Curtain

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 28. 1. 1977 - The “Anti-Charter”, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 25. 1. 1969 Jan Palach´s funeral

A period portrait of Josef Loub from the period when he served at the Auxiliary Technical Batalions, the first half of the 1950s

Prof. RnDr., DrSc Josef Loub

* 1929

Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, PTP (Auxiliary Technical Battalions), Boy Scouts, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu and 2 more categories

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 1945 - 1948 - First renewal of Junák, 25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 13. – 14. 4. 1950 – "Action K" – forceful concentration of Czech monks

Luers Wendy

Wendy Luers

* 1940

Relatives of important personalities, Diplomat, Journalist, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Art and censorship and 1 more categories

1989 - The fall of the iron curtain, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

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