Description
This Czech-language travel and reportage book by Jan Šmíd explores France’s most fascinating events, personalities, places and historical moments through a reporter’s eyes. It describes filming the Olympic Games in Paris, the atmosphere surrounding the burning Notre-Dame Cathedral and the reconstruction that followed. The journey traces Jean-Paul Belmondo, the Allied landings in Normandy and the battles of Verdun, and visits the Cannes Film Festival and Saint-Tropez. It also reveals the story behind the construction of the Statue of Liberty and introduces one of France’s most beautiful villages. Alongside the travel account, Šmíd describes his daily work in the field, the preparation of filming, arranging interviews and the unpredictable situations in which reportage takes shape.