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What Happened to You, Číhošť?

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: March 2, 2020, 19:00 – 21:00

Seventy years later, the violent death of Jan Toufar (on 25 February 1950), who was a priest in the village of Číhošť, raises many disturbing questions, inspires artists and spurs journeys into the past and to fateful places. Presentation of Miloš Doležal books Když není motorka, lépe chodit pěšky (If There’s No Motorbike, It’s Better to Go On Foot) and Velký pátek P. Josefa Toufara (Fr. Josef Toufar’s Good Friday) with a debate and readings from literary treatments of the Číhošť case from the 1950s to the present.

Taking part in the discussion will be historian Tomáš Petráček, postulator of Toufar’s beatification process, and the literary historian and editor Jan Wiendl.

Actors Jana Franková and David Novotný will appear.

Miloš Doležal will host the evening.

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