The Physician of a Dying Time
Series about the life of Renaissance anatomist, scholar and politic Johannes Jessenius. Already legendary serie...
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Magda (Magdaléna) Vášáryová (* August 26, 1948, Banská Štiavnica) is a Slovak politician and former actress and diplomat. Since 2006, she has been a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic for SDKÚ-DS. On 12 December 2013, she resigned from the party and until the start of the so-called The third government of Robert Fico (2016) worked in the National Council of the Slovak Republic as a non-attached member of parliament.
She began her successful acting career as a 15-year-old in the film Senzi Mama (1964).
From 1966 to 1971 she studied sociology at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava. Since 1970 she has worked as an actress in the Korze Theater, the New Stage (1971 - 1983) and in the Slovak National Theater (1983 - 1990). She is the author of book memoirs about Banská Štiavnica Short Letters to a Town (1988).
In 1988 she was awarded the title of Merited Artist.
From 1990 to 1993, she served as the Czech-Slovak ambassador to Austria. During the diplomatic mission, she lived with her daughters in Vienna while her husband stayed in Bratislava. While they provide wife support for diplomats, Vášáryová, as a diplomat, did not receive compensation for the diplomat's non-working wife. Václav Havel and Jiří Dienstbier enforced her compensation payment.
On May 3, 1993, she organized a meeting at home, where the Slovak Society for Foreign Policy (SFPA) began to form. From 1993 to 2000, she was its director. In 2020, she is the Honorary Chair of the SFPA Board. In 1998, she founded Občianske oko.
In the 1999 elections, she ran as an independent candidate for the post of President of Slovakia. She won 194,635 votes, 6.6%, in the election. She did not make it to the second round. She announced her candidacy in February 1999 in Banská Bystrica. She wanted to confirm the changes in 1989 and 1998. She was the first woman in Slovakia to run for president.
From 2000 to 2005, she served as Slovakia's ambassador to Poland. Its predecessor was Ondrej Nemčok and his successor was František Ružička. Since February 21, 2005, she has held the position of State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic in the second government of Mikuláš Dzurinda.
In the summer of 2005, she joined the SDKÚ. On 12 December 2013, together with Lucia Žitňanská and Miroslav Beblavý, she resigned from SDKÚ-DS.
Since November 15, 2013, she has been the president of the Živena association. Her goals after the election were “I still have three goals within Živena. One of them is, in particular, the modernization of communication, the addition of a membership base, and I would also like to raise more money in more modern ways, for example in the form of grants. " Her predecessor was Zora Breier.
In 2016, she did not run for parliament again. In addition to Živena, she also led the Institute for Cultural Policy. He also teaches at the CEVRO INSTITUTE in the Czech Republic.
In 2016, The Prague Society for International Cooperation awarded her the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Prize for Civil Service and the Lifelong Fight against Corruption.
Sister of the actress Emilie Vášáryová. The first husband was the actor Dušan Jamrich. The second husband is Milan Lasica. He has two daughters.
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Series about the life of Renaissance anatomist, scholar and politic Johannes Jessenius. Already legendary serie...
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A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89), a genius of world cinema, a w...
When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swathe of humani...
6-part television film based on the historical novel of the same name by Hana Zelinova.
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Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to t...
Two historical stories about love. In the story "The Arabian Horse", the scheming townsman Messer Francesco Ver...
In the aftermath of war, two men and a woman begin acting more like children than adults, leading to tragedy.
The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by the thick...
A man changes his behavior according to the term of the year.
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive “Kraka...
Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Ku...
Jules Massanet's lyrical opera is transformed into a superb film production by Petr Weigl, shot on location in...
Tereza lives and works in Prague. She meets a handsome man, Tommie, speaking in a language incomprehensible to...
The story takes place in the Czech-German border region in 1938. The hero Tomás Jakl marries but the marriage i...
Benjamin Britten’s opera of the Henry James novel. An inexperienced governess is sent to a country house to car...
Eduard and Charlotte live an isolated and idyllic life together. But soon Eduard feels that something is missin...
The television production is an episode from the life of Andrej Sládkovič. Braxatoris, known as Sládkovič, come...
The original television production of the play by Jozef Gregor Tajovský. A drama from a Slovak village at the t...
The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the natio...
Miller’s daughter Zuzanka Vojířová, betrothed to Ondřej Zachar, hesitates before marriage when Lord Peter Vok o...
A picture of generational confrontations between children and parents. A young and ambitious violin virtuoso, P...
Television adaptation of the novel by the Italian writer Italo Svevo. His hero is Zeno Cosini, the son of a mer...
The hero of this popular fairy tale is a young prince who, after the death of his parents, goes out into the wo...
Three arias from Antonín Dvořák´s fairytale opera Rusalka turned in to a movie, sung by Gabriela Beňačková (Rus...
Version of the fairy tale "The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs"; unlike this one, the young charcoal-burner's...
A filmed version of Tchaikovsky's opera. Onegin visits a friend, his fiancee and her sister Tatiana, who believ...