Golden Sixties - Season 1 Episode 16 Zdeněk Mahler

His name evokes music and he is most known as a moderator of television programs about music personages and other celebrities. An author of the literature of the fact, essayist and dramatic, he also dedicates himself from the sixties on to screen writing. He authored comedies and social dramas , an apocalyptic picture by Evald Schorm as an adaptation of his The Seventh Day The Eighth Night (Den sedmý – osmá noc, 1969) was labeled by the normalizators as the “apex of the socialistic pomography“, locked it away and expelled the authors from cinematography. Despite this he had returned to film again, collaborating for example on Forman’s Amadeus (1984) a developed his cultural and historical publicity on a broad scale, not only in publishing but and radio but mainly in television. The latest adaptation of his material gave birth to the film Lidice (2011).