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Visitor Jindřich Polák
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A portrait of the creator of original fictional worlds, whose birth marks 100 years this year. His films and series such as Ikarie XB 1, Pan Tau or Lucie, the Street Terror, became a phenomenon not only in communist Czechoslovakia, but also in the West.
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Documentary · N/A
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- Runtime
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