Osudy - CDmp3

Arnošt Lustig (1926-2011) tells the story of his life, total time 4 hours 14 minutes, Directed by Vlado Príkazský----------A Dancer with DestinyMy favorite dad loved to dance. After World War II, mainly to American swing and Czech polkas, after the Soviet occupation to Argentine tangos and slow dances from Posázaví. He was the last dancer to leave the dance floor – the end was usually determined by dawn. After our emigration to the USA in 1970, as a member of the International Writers Program in Iowa, he dominated the dance parties in the house provided by the university – as a DJ, I operated the second most important machine in the family – the gramophone – the only thing more important was the suitcase typewriter Hermes Baby. (Records were sent to us by Arnošt's mother Terezie and sister Hana, my dad's "twin" Ota Pavel, and friends from high school.) Later, already in the "post-Velvet" Karlovy Vary, as vice president of the film festival jury, my dad danced the night away at the Grandhotel Pupp with the two generations younger Julia Ormond, and the festival director Jiří Bartoška marveled at where he got "that juice" (he was only 69!). I observed that my dad was a dominant partner in dance with beautiful women, including my mother Věra. Those he led in dance duels to enchanting exhaustion,…