For The Love Of Prague

For his new love Zdenka left the American cartoon director Gene Deitch in 1958 his family in New York and relocated to Prague. What followed surpasses the most fantastic imagination of Hollywood filmmakers. Besides films as Tom and Jerry or Popeye, he made dozens of short cartoons with Czech animators. (Munro won the Oscar in 1961).

As a jazz enthusiast, he has recorded the home blues session of John Lee Hooker a time before the first official recording. His life-love story is intelligent and chilling account of 40 years under communism, lived by an American “guest”.

The screening with personal presence of Gene Deitche! The partner of the screening is KomiksFest.