Korespondence V + W - 6 CDmp3 (Čte Norbert Lichý, Václav Knop a Daniela Kolářová)

One of the largest projects in the history of audiobooks. More than thirty years of the 20th century in the letters of two friends in life and death. In a total of 561 letters, two legendary clowns present themselves as we have never known them. They experience all their professional successes and failures, as well as personal tragedies, across the ocean. There is also an accurate description of the struggle against state power on both sides of the Atlantic. Voskovec is arrested upon arriving in the USA and is imprisoned and investigated for several months during the American fight against communism. Werich, on the other hand, struggles with the communist regime that forbids him from practicing his profession. His open letters to the then Ministry of Culture and Interior are part of the recording. ***** An invisible thread runs through the entire correspondence, a desire to meet, to act together in theater, or to make a film. Several renowned directors - Jasný, Kadár, and Miloš Forman - had plans with them. Unfortunately, mutual cooperation never came to fruition. ***** As time goes on, the theme of cooperation in the letters shifts to the theme of illness and old age. It ends almost like an ancient tragedy, as within a few months, Werich's wife Zdenka, his daughter Jana, and finally Jan Werich himself pass away. ***** The entire recording concludes with an emotional...