Fiction Tuesdays: Program of Czech Center Bucharest brings Jiří Menzel & Bohumil Hrabal retrospective

Fiction Tuesdays, a film program of the Czech Center in Bucharest, focuses at this edition on a retrospective dedicated to the creative partnership of writer Bohumil Hrabal and director Jiří Menzel.

“Hrabal and Menzel built together a universe recognizable through its ironic humor, humanism, and attention to ordinary people caught up in the whirlwind of history. The prose of Hrabal, with its ample and ludic phrases, found in the cinema of Menzel a visual form that kept its spirit and inner rhythm. The films in the program are adaptations from the writer’s books and can be seen as a retrospective of this collaboration, from the debut that brought the Oscar to Czechoslovakia and censored films to nostalgic evocations of community and memory,” a presentation from the Czech Center reads.