Film Series: Jan Palach
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: November 15, 2018, 18:00 – 20:00
Rejecting evil with silent protest
/Film evening with guest/
The film Jan Palach (2018, 124 min.) focuses on the final months of the student who laid down his life to make an emphatic statement to a submissive Czechoslovakia. He refused to accept repression and 20 years later his action resulted in freedom for all his compatriots.
The guest in the second part of the evening will be actor Viktor Zavadil, who followed the changing atmosphere “through Palach’s eyes” and captured his thinking and decision on screen.
Final evening on the theme “Famous Evangelists: Masaryk, Horáková, Palach” taking place in connection with the centenary of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren.
Czech Radio journalist Magdaléna Trusinová will moderate.