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Czechoslovak New Wave

Introducing the Czechoslovak New Wave

6m 52s

Programmer and critic Irena Kovarova, directors Miloš Forman and Jan Němec, and film professor Peter Hames discuss one of the most radical film movements of the 1960s.

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