These days Prague is another victim of European over-tourism, but 30 years ago it still was a place of history and mystery. I recently saw the marvelous 1993 documentary below that has had me waxing nostalgic for the Prague that I first visited around the time the documentary was filmed. Prague Magic Lantern was written and presented by playwright Michael Frayn. Produced for BBC television, it is a personal view of the city's political and cultural history which takes in the usual names and subjects: Rabbi Loew and his Golem, Emperor Rudolf II, Rudolf's alchemists, artists and scholars, photographer Josef Sudek, Franz Kafka, puppets, and pivo.
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