Czech director Jan Hrebejk is a master of clashing tones, capable of melding comedy and drama in movies that broach such contentious topics as immigration, neo-rightist racism and even -- in the Oscar ...

Time and truth, and their effects on each other, are at the heart of Kawasaki’s Rose. This film takes place, for the most part, in the Czech Republic today, but it deals chiefly with people who lived ...

Still pumping out quality fare at the rate of almost a pic a year, prolific Czech helmer Jan Hrebejk (“Divided We Fall”) reunites with regular scripter Petr Jarchovsky for one of the duo’s most ...

film profile] as its contender in the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. film profile] by Jan Sverak. Kawasaki's Rose tells the story of a renowned scientist and former dissident who is ...

The Czech Film and Television Academy selected Kawasaki’s Rose as this year’s Czech Oscar Entry. Jan Hrebejk directs and Petr Jarchovsky wrote the screenplay. The film marks the fourth from Hrebejk ...

Kawasaki’s Rose focuses on one family in a sobering take on the experience of Czech resistance to communism on the twentieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. The latest from prolific director Jan ...

“Kawasaki’s Rose” is about secrets and lies, about truths that have been hidden, then revealed, then hidden again. This intricate, powerful, unsettling film brings us into a world of profound moral ...

In the U.S., the popular meaning of some historical events has shifted gradually over time, and the reputations of political figures as disparate as Joe McCarthy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt have ...

Dense and complicated but surprisingly funny, this Czech family drama centers on an academic and former dissident whose closet may have some skeletons in it and the ways it affects those around him.