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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="2"><p>Movie Review <font size="4"><br>Divided We Fall</font> <br>by David Gurevich</font> <P>What happened to Czech films? They were all the rage back in ‘68: <i>Firemen’s Ball</I>, <I>Closely Watched Trains</I>, <I>Loves of a Blonde…</i> the delicious mix of Mitteleuropa irony and the closely observed absurdity of human condition. The Soviet tanks was what happened, of course: some filmmakers left, like Milos Forman, while others, like Jiri Menzel, went into internal exile. We were reminded that there was still a Czech cinema a few years ago when <i>Kolya</i> won the Oscar for best Foreign Film. But a big chunk of the attraction of that candy bar of a film stemmed from the adorable child as its star… not fair. Now, finally, in <i>Divided We Fall</i>, directed by Jan Hrebejk, we have solid evidence that the Czech cinema is alive and well. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>