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THE EAR

By | August 2003

SCREENING AT THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE, AUGUST 24TH! One gets the impression from Karel Kachyña’s “The Ear” that life under the Communists’ boot in Czechoslovakia during the early 1970’s wasn’t all Pilsner Urquell and pretzels…

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THE EAR

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