VHL opens branch at Trutnov fest
- Where: Trutnov Open Air Festival
- When: August 15, 2013, 16:00 – August 18, 2013, 16:00
A branch of the Václav Havel Library will open at the Trutnov Open Air Festival on 15.8.2013 at the exact same time as the event itself, 4 PM. Readers and visitors can choose from a broad selection of books, DVDs, badges and postcards – as well as from a no less interesting programme:
Daily:
Projection of photographs from the Václav Havel Library’s archive
Presentation of the Václav Havel Library
15.8.2013 / Thurs /
4 PM
New books from the VHL
16.8.2013 / Fri /
10 AM
Day dedicated to the Committee of Good Will– Olga Havlová Foundation
17.8.2013 / Sat /
10 AM
David Vondráček: Killing, Czech Style
Zabíjení po česku (Killing, Czech Style) is documentary film that attempt to capture in the most rounded way possible the contradictory phenomenon of the so-called wild expulsions that occurred between the end of WWII and the Potsdam Conference, when around 700,000 Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia.
Director David Vondráček will be present at the screening.
2 PM
Petr Jančárek, Martin Vidlák: Václav Havel, Prague–Castle
Screening of two parts of a documentary mapping the presidency of Václav Havel in the years 1990–1992. The first part captures the first six months of Václav Havel’s presidency, i.e., the period between his first election as president and the first free elections in June 1990. The second part focuses on the playwright Václav Havel as an unconventional figure in the world of politics.
18.8.2013 / Sun /
9.30 AM
David Vondráček: Where Have All the Dead Gone
Morning with documentary film examining the phenomenon of the dark side of the expulsion of the German population from the Czech lands after 1945.
Director David Vondráček will be present at the screening.
2 AM
Petr Jančárek, Martin Vidlák: Václav Havel, Prague–Castle
Screening of two parts of a documentary mapping Václav Havel’s presidency in the years 1990–1992.