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The aim of the study is to analyse the most important Czech and Slovak feature television and film productions devoted to the life and work of Saints Cyril and Methodius from 1989 to the present. The study examines a change in perspective on this subject under the influence of changes in the social and political situation in the last three decades. During the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, Saints Cyril and Methodius were on the margin of the interest of audiovisual media and they were perceived only as creato...

Pawel Lukaszewski is the famous contemporary Polish composer, born in 1968 in Czestochowa, educated in Warsaw, the full professor of composition at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. His sacral and religious music gained the renown around the world. He was awarded with the ‘Orphee d’Or de l’Academie du Disque lyrique’ and nine ‘Fryderyk’ Awards in Poland. The prestigious vocal ensembles form Europe, Asia and America perform this music [1]. Lukaszewski's music of religious and sacred character operates largel...

This paper intends to critically reflect on the work of Austrian film director Willi Forst. Forst has been widely regarded as one of the great names in the history of German-speaking cinema, and in discussing Forst’s work, scholars have repeatedly pointed to the close connection between Forst’s films and Austria’s history and cultural tradition. In fact, Forst has been often labeled as the most Austrian film director, typically associating Forst’s work with the musical genre and the so-called Viennese Film, of whi...

Pawel Lukaszewski (Polish composer born in 1968) [1] belongs to the leaders of contemporary choir and religious music. His music is widely known not only in Poland but also abroad. It gained special recognition in Britain, where prestigious vocal ensembles perform it regularly. This music can be treated as the area of a special sounds space evoking the mystical space. Mystical space is built here upon the modern musical language using the elements of musical drama. This music also refers to the forms known form th...

The theme of the contribution is the eroticism in the novel The Camp of Fallen Women (1992, Tabor padlych zien) written by Slovak author Antor Balaz. The novel focuses on the period of the first years of building the socialist regime in Czechoslovakia and depicts the efforts of the incoming regime to re-educate prostitutes from the Vydrica (district of Bratislava) to conscious citizens in the area of forced labour camp Novaky. The labour camp in Novaky is known as the camp of three totalities in which Jews were in...

The present paper aims to investigate the ways in which the First World War was portrayed on the Italian screens during the Fascist regime. For this purpose, the paper will discuss a number of films about the war made in Italy between the 1920s and 1930s, ranging from Mario Volpe’s Il grido dell’aquila, produced in 1923 on the occasion of the first anniversary of Fascism’s seizure of power, in October 1922, to Marco Elter’s Le scarpe al sole, which is commonly regarded as one of the best Italian films on the Great...

The study has an analytical-interpretative character and brings a partial research probe of the artistic depiction of the Holocaust theme. It deals with the ways of dramatizing the most authentic and most often translated book on the topic of the Holocaust The Diary of Anne Frank. In the study we describe on the basis of theatrological and literary-scientific research actual forms of artistic interpretation of Anne Frank’s Diary in a contemporary Slovak theatre. We focus on interpretation of a classical drama thea...