KEVIN ALONE IN PRAGUE PART 1 OUT OF 4 / Prague Through the Eyes of a Young American (Documentary Movie) / Mother a Czech, dad an American - fate has found thirteen-year-old Kevin alone in Prague. Alone for the first time in Europe, in the Czech Republic. He is alone in the middle of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, a city overfilled with historical landmarks and their stories. What friends he will make while uncovering these tales and what he discovers, will be seen in our movies. / Kevin, living in Kansas City, found himself on a visit to Prague, where he met with recent undergraduate Jakub. Kevin loves history and is interested in the native country of his mother. He especially loves stories and legends about knights and other heroes. Jakub offers to be Kevin's guide through Prague and during their journey, shows him many sights and tells him stories from the distant and not so distant past. Throughout the film, Jakub also reveals to Kevin, one of the greatest secrets from Czech history. / Jakub passes with Kevin four routes, each of which has six stops, Prague's major sights, and each of them hiding in addition to the historical significance and beauty of architecture stories of people from Czech history. / In the movies, the audience will learn about the Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV, who built the famous Charles Bridge in Prague, started building St. Vitus Cathedral, or founded Charles University, one of the oldest universities in Europe. About president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and his American wife Charlotte Garrigue-Masaryk, or Milada Horáková, a Czech politician who was executed by the Communist regime after a manipulated political trial and whose pardon was vainly requested by Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. About the occupation of 1968, when Prague was quaking by the shooting of Russian soldiers and the barricades were burning in the middle of the town, or about the Velvet Revolution of 1989, after which democracy was restored in the country. But also about the heroism of the Czech RAF paratroopers who, with the help of the home resistance, made an assassination of the third man of the Nazi Empire, Reinhard Heydrich. About Golem, Franz Kafka, and the victims of the Holocaust, or about Sir Nicholas Winton, who, just before World War II, moved nearly 700 Jewish children from Prague to Great Britain and saved them from transport to concentration camps - he is justly called "the British Schindler". About the construction of the National Theater, which was built by even a tiny financial contribution from people - and our heroes played on the stage a part of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Or about Karel Hasler, actor, director, national hero - but also the folk songwriter of the first half of the 20th century, after which they are still named candies Hašlerky. But also about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose opera Don Giovanni had the world premiere in Prague, at The Estates Theatre, or even the devils and water sprites and many others, so that he could recognize the soul of Prague and her heroes in such a fun and interesting way. / Description of the 1st route - Hradčany area From Letná to Loretánské náměstí, across Hradčanské náměstí to the Prague Castle and from Old Castle Steps to Klárov. / Starring: Kevin O`Toole, Jiří Böhm, His Eminence Dominik Duka, Lucie Šustková, Lenka Maršálková, Miroslav Pánek, Jakub Duša, Sára Tupá, and her dog Belda / First Assistant Director: Lucie Šustková, Second Assistant Director: Lenka Maršálková, Grip: Lukáš Reichel, Vítek Cina, Camera: Jan Brichcín, Božek Slavík, Tomáš Svoboda, Lukáš Reichel, Assistant Editors: Petr Katz, Editors: Jan Brichcín, Petr Ryšavý, Producer: Jana Smetánková, Pavlina O`Toole, Writer: Pavlina O`Toole, Director: Jan Brichcín / Hummingbird Stories LLC © 2024