This year, the Czechs have an unexpected nomination for Best Foreign-Language Film; CER reviews it and looks at a previous Oscar-winning combination.

Winning Isn't Everything
Andrew James Horton
Musíme si pomáhat, this year's surprise Oscar nominee, takes a courageous view of history but is unlikely to win for its pains.

The Ceremony of
the Everyday
Ivana Košuličová
Jiří Menzel and Bohumil Hrabal's apotheosis of ordinary people was a highpoint of the Czech New Wave, winning an Oscar in 1967.

Hrabal Supplement
A select bibliography of Hrabal's writing.

From the archives
Making History
Andrew James Horton
How Czech Oscar-winners have previously used comforting visions of the past.

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Sow and Reap
Štěpán Kotrba
The Czech Social Democrats have been a success. Why is it the public can't stand them?

Slovenia's Success
Brian J Požun
How Slovenia went from the brink of war to star student of the EU in just a few short years.

Greasing the Wheels
Gusztáv Kosztolányi
The bribes, the theft, the orgies... Hungary's incredible oil scandal fully explained.

Memory and Forgetting
Martin D Brown
Historical amnesia and post-Cold War attitudes in the Czech Republic. FREE ebook for CER eBookclub members.

After the Rain
Sam Vaknin
Was transition for naught? Sam Vaknin studies the culture shock and the quagmire that transition has become.

The Celluloid Tinderbox
Andrew James Horton (ed)
An explosive decade of Yugo film. FREE!

The Failure of a New History
Andrew Stroehlein
Tense Czecho-German relations. FREE!

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