Vávra and Lipus filmed another Charming Cities and launched a calendar

Prague - Next year, viewers will once again encounter the television series Šumná města. Its creators, after a two-year break in broadcasting new episodes, have filmed another ten stops at neglected or dilapidated modern architectural monuments this year. Today, they launched the calendar Šumná a bezbranná 2007 at the Luxor bookstore in Prague, which also highlights the objects of their interest.
The television series Šumná města, prepared by architect and protagonist of the Sklep theater David Vávra and director Radovan Lipus, first appeared nearly ten years ago. More than 40 episodes have been created, although filming has been interrupted several times due to financial reasons. The authors of this project, which has also been published in book form and on video cassettes, have received several professional awards. The show's great audience success is ensured by the combination of Vávra's architectural expertise and the comedy with which the guide travels in a different quirky mode of transport each time to explore the beauty of modern Czech architecture.
"This year, after a two-year break, filming has started again, and ten new episodes have been created, which will be broadcast next year," Lipus told ČTK today. The new episodes will include reruns of some older shows.
Architecture lovers, who generally appreciate modern architecture, especially that which is forgotten, or even those that most people view as the evil produced by the past regime, can look forward to Šumná Šumava. In this episode, the authors focused on Sušice, Čeňková Pila, Hartmanice, and Železná Ruda. The program also includes Beroun, Česká and Moravská Třebová, Litomyšl, Trutnov, Otava, Jihlava, Tábor, Znojmo, and Příbram.
The calendar for next year is already the sixth in order. Each month features a panoramic photo of one building by photographer Michael Míček, accompanied by text about the history and present of the given object or its broader environment. The patrons of the calendar are architectural historian Zdeněk Lukeš and art historian Jiří Kotalík. The large-format calendar with precise artistic and technical processing is offered by booksellers for about 480 CZK.
Míček's photographs, along with archival images of the same objects and texts and poems by Vávra and Lipus, will be the subject of an exhibition that will travel through Czech and Moravian cities over the next two years. The journey will begin in March at the Czech Centre in Vienna.

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Calendar Šumná a bezbranná 2007
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