Vánoce v Praze - CDmp3

Christmas Eve has arrived, preparing Prague for us... ***** It is December 24th, and Czech-German writer Jára arrives at Prague's main train station from Berlin. Instead of the planned meeting with friends, whom he cannot reach by phone, he faces a fantastical journey through the deserted metropolis, intertwined with the protagonist's melancholic memories of his father and a long-lost love. In the renowned pub U Černého vola in Malá Strana, he meets the first of a series of extraordinary characters who will keep him company on this festive evening: a man with a glowing head named Kavka, but everyone calls him Kafka. Chance then brings a well-known figure from the local underworld into their path, the fearsome Prague King, to whom no lock in the metropolis can resist. And the group of lonely foreigners is joined by the beautiful Stella, a widow from Milan, whose late husband was a tram driver and called Prague the most beautiful Italian city. Love, solitude, literature, and history, along with the spirit of Christmas, all color the journey of this peculiar quartet along both banks of the Vltava. ***** Rudiš's extraordinary guide to magical Prague, narrated by the author himself, is a tribute to our capital city and a reminder to those who have no choice but to believe in miracles. ***** Length of the recording: 1 hour 9...