Czech Television: The Golden Prague Festival will be opened by Dagmar Pecková
18/09/2022 15:40 | Press Release
Film premieres, musical performances and a rich accompanying program including a music and dance evening in Latin American rhythms. That will be this year’s Golden Prague.
The fifty-ninth year of the international festival will offer eighty-eight competition and two non-competition films about music and dance from around the world, thanks to which, in addition to traditional opera or dance houses and concert halls, the audience will visit, for example, the peaks of the Swiss Alps, the Greek island of Delos or the border between North and South Korea. One of the oldest television festivals in Europe hosts the New Stage of the National Theater from Wednesday 21 to Saturday 24 September.
“A large number of high-quality music and dance programs from all over the world, an important television personality from the management of ARTE at the head of the international jury, a star artist as the new winner of the award for extraordinary artistic contribution, as well as a lot of screenings, accompanying programs and personal meetings with Czech musicians, singers, dancers and foreign creators. All this is this year’s festival, thanks to which Prague once again becomes the capital of programs about music, dance and theater in the world. It fills me with joy and also with the conviction that culture can – and even must – unite people in these not-so-happy times,” says the director of the Zlatá Praha festival and executive director of the CT art program Tomáš Motl.
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Opera singer Dagmar Pecková and her guests will officially kick off the fifty-ninth year of the festival. Traditional Mozart arias, operetta repertoire and songs by Gustav Mahler will not be missed by TV viewers, who will be offered a live broadcast of the cultural program ČT art on the opening night. The important singer is discussed in the documentary Stoptime by Dagmar Pecková, which will have its festive premiere one day later, on Thursday, September 22.
Zlatá Praha will also honor the legacy of one of the most important choreographers of his generation, Jiří Kylián. A documentary mystery describing the birth, life and death of the first theater devoted to dance art, the Nederlands Dans Theater, of which Kylián is the long-time artistic director, will give the festival its world premiere on Friday, September 23.
In addition to many festive premieres and a total of ninety films, this year’s edition will also offer a rich accompanying program. During the four days of the festival, visitors can look forward to a special projection, the Dance Room and Saturday guided tours of the historic building of the National Theater and in the afternoon StarDance, where the personalities of the popular competition will dance in Václav Havel Square. The complete festival program is available on the festival website.
The best films will be selected by an international jury
The awarding of the best films is traditionally decided by a five-member international jury, which this year includes the executive director of ARTE Wolfgang Bergmann, the director of the performing arts department of the Portuguese RTP Daniel Gorjao, the director of the music department of the Serbian RTS Silvana Grujić, the artistic director of the National Theater Opera and the Per Boye Hansen Opera and Rita Lombardi, Commercial Director of Performing Arts at the Italian RAI. The awards ceremony takes place on Saturday, September 24. It will be offered to viewers by CT art from 9:45 p.m.
Golden Prague in numbers:
- 90 artistic images, of which 88 compete for the Grand Prix Golden Prague, Czech Crystal, Czech Television Award and Special Recognition for Outstanding Artistic Achievement
- The longest film: Fire Shut Up in My Bones lasts 190 minutes
- The shortest film lasts 8 minutes: Moving Giacometti
- 7,307 is the length of all submitted competition films
- 47 television and film productions submitted their films to the festival
- 22 images to represent the Czech Republic
- 11 images to represent Czech Television
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