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Tribute to Milan Maryška |
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Milan Maryska was born in 1943. After graduating from high school he worked as a laborer for five years before beginning his studies at Prague’s film school FAMU in 1965. Four years later he was actively engaged in organizing student strikes, which he eventually portrayed in his film Ten Points. Together with M. Peer he made a documentary about Jan Palach entitled Silence. In 1970 he was forced to leave FAMU, and he spent several years changing professions, sporadically working for Czechoslovak Television and Kratky Film Praha. In 1980 he made the film Garden and Encounter for the Bratislava studios of Czechoslovak Television, which won several prestigious international awards. For the following eight years, he was employed at Prague’s Medical Emergency Service. In the second half of the 1980s, Maryska and Jaromir Stetina created sets of documentary films about Siberia (Man and the River, Siberia – Land of Grief, Land of Hope). He participated in the first humanitarian convoy to Armenia after the devastating earthquake there. In Armenia he made the documentaries The Land Beneath Ararat and Bridges for the Living. Together with Simon Panek and Jaromir Stetina, he co-founded the People in Need Foundation and the Epicentrum news agency. Among his works inspired by the activities of the People in Need Foundation are The Victimized Nation, Corridor of Life, Forgotten Compatriots, and The Kelts. Throughout his filmmaking career he made documentaries depicting the history of Czechoslovakia in both its highest and lowest moments (What We Fought For, We Won’t Give Up Freedom, Interrupted Spring, The Loss of Memory, Czech Holocaust). He was a member of the Board of Directors of the People in Need Foundation. Maryska died in December 2002. Milan Maryška films
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Land Beneath Ararat / Země pod Araratem
Milan Maryška / Czech Republic / 1989 / 25 min. / Video
Immediately after the devastating earthquake in Armenia
in December 1988 Maryška and his crew flew to the spot to bring testimonies
of the scale of the catastrophe and the depth of human tragedies.
screenings:
12.4 20.00 Perštýn
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Sacrificed
Nation / Obětovaný národ
Milan Maryška / Czech Republic / 1992 / 30 min. / Video
The war over the enclave Nagorno Karabach had been raging
for four years when this film was made. The documentary tells the story
of the implacable fight between Armenians and Azerbaijans...
screenings:
10.4 21.30 Evald
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Rafael
Kubelik Conducting/ Rafael Kubelík diriguje
Milan Maryška / Czech Republic / 1994 / 53 min. / Video
In 1990, after 42 years of involuntary emigration, world-renown
music conductor Rafael Kubelik returned to his homeland.
screenings:
10.4 21.30 Evald
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Siberia
– Heaven or Hell (Part I) / Sibiř, peklo nebo ráj (1. díl)
Milan Maryška / Czech Republic / 1997 / 60 min. / Video
Siberia – Heaven or Hell is a set of documentary
films about life in Russia, Siberia and the Far East. They depict the
different ways in which people live and how they make use of the natural
resources from their surrounding area.
screenings:
12.4 20.00 Perštýn
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Interrupted
Spring – The Might of Normalization / Přerušené jaro – Normalizační
moc
Milan Maryška / Czech Republic / 1998 / 75 min. / Video
In one hundred years, the events in Czechoslovakia in
1968 may just be a short note in a textbook. But at the end of the 20th
century, there is hardly a single Czech whose life has not been affected
by the events of the "Prague Spring."
screenings:
9.4 19.30 Lucerna
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