Holland’s film will be the first film on the subject of a student who became an icon of Czech protests to the 1968 Russian invasion. Holland was a student at Prague’s FAMU film school (www.famu.cz) at the time, graduating in 1971. The film will be produced by HBO Central Europe (www.hbo-centraleurope.com).
{mosimage}PRAGUE: Polish director Agnieszka Holland is preparing to direct a film on Jan Palach, who died of self-immolation during the Czechoslovak protests of 1969.The news was made public as the Czech Republic commemorated the anniversary of Palach’s death in January 1969.
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