Tomas Pecina, Author at Transitions

by Tomas Pecina Back in the 1970s, when Czechoslovak culture was perfectly “normalized” and regimented by pre-, post- and self-censorship, it was next to impossible to make a political statement on the big screen. Allegory, which had augured in the Prague Spring of 1968, was banned, and authors had to resort to the most out-of-the-way […]

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