Creation | WINDOW ON THE NEIGHBOURS
View from the floor or what connects and divides Czechs and Germans
Czech Television – Telexport
Kavčí hory, 140 00 Prague 4
tel: 26 11 37 047
fax: 26 12 11 354
e-mail: telexport@czech-tv.cz
About this series:
Not many people remember it today, but at the beginning of the 1990s, the topic of Czech-German relations was a very sensitive one and not well appreciated. Mutual official questions concerning guilt and apology seemed to forget about the fact that ordinary people, especially the younger generation, no longer had any prejudice, and contact between the inhabitants of both these countries occurred totally naturally and maybe more than many people imagined or would like.
In order to implement this series, Febio, as the most experienced studio in the field of documentary work, called on Mr. Pavel Tigrid, after a suggestion by the president, Václav Havel.
The aim of the series stemmed from the fact that we should not always look back on the negative historical experience of our two nations (which most of the population of our country only know through the memories of the older generation anyway). We should rather try to concentrate on today and on what the situation will be when we enter into a united Europe together. With the cancellation of borders, we should rather try to look for that which connects us than that which divides us.
Thus, the series uncovered a range of themes, which documented in an interesting manner the fact that there really is more that connects the Czechs and the Germans after hundreds of years than that divides them and that the affinity of the lives and worries of both nations living next to each other is greater than we are often able or willing to accept – and for this reason, any path other than cooperation and understanding is just not possible.
This collection of documentaries this became the most extensive contribution to the new establishment of Czech-German relations and has brought with it much remarkable documentary testimony.
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Frequency:
monthly
Brodcast:
1998
Length:
20 minutes
First part:
“Living among Czechs” (directed by: Irena Gerová)
Last part:
“Missionaries in the midst of Europe” (directed by: Bedřich Ludvík)
Copyright:
Czech Television
Total parts:
13
Contact:Czech Television – Telexport
Kavčí hory, 140 00 Prague 4
tel: 26 11 37 047
fax: 26 12 11 354
e-mail: telexport@czech-tv.cz
About this series:
Not many people remember it today, but at the beginning of the 1990s, the topic of Czech-German relations was a very sensitive one and not well appreciated. Mutual official questions concerning guilt and apology seemed to forget about the fact that ordinary people, especially the younger generation, no longer had any prejudice, and contact between the inhabitants of both these countries occurred totally naturally and maybe more than many people imagined or would like.
In order to implement this series, Febio, as the most experienced studio in the field of documentary work, called on Mr. Pavel Tigrid, after a suggestion by the president, Václav Havel.
The aim of the series stemmed from the fact that we should not always look back on the negative historical experience of our two nations (which most of the population of our country only know through the memories of the older generation anyway). We should rather try to concentrate on today and on what the situation will be when we enter into a united Europe together. With the cancellation of borders, we should rather try to look for that which connects us than that which divides us.
Thus, the series uncovered a range of themes, which documented in an interesting manner the fact that there really is more that connects the Czechs and the Germans after hundreds of years than that divides them and that the affinity of the lives and worries of both nations living next to each other is greater than we are often able or willing to accept – and for this reason, any path other than cooperation and understanding is just not possible.
This collection of documentaries this became the most extensive contribution to the new establishment of Czech-German relations and has brought with it much remarkable documentary testimony.
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