Photo: Ian Willoughby, Radio Prague International
This week saw the first screening in Prague of the independent movie Wooden Hearts, which stars Vít Hořejš, founder of the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre. The fiction film also features many of the traditional puppets that Hořejš – who left Czechoslovakia in the late 1970s – uncovered in an old Czech church in Manhattan several decades ago. He and his life partner Bonnie Stein, who produced Wooden Hearts and also appears in the charming picture, stopped by at our studios just ahead of the screening.
I know the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre began in the early 1990s – and I understand the whole story began when some old marionettes were found at the Jan Hus Church in Manhattan?.
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Author: Ian Willoughby