Jakub Motejzík

In the fall of 2022, after eighty years, the Sokol Union Malyn was reestablished in Ukraine, and this April, Czech Sokols brought exercise equipment and materials to Volhynia. Under the slogan "Run for Victory," they organized sports games in Malyn, Zhytomyr. During the Sokol expeditions, they demonstrated training and preparation for the 2024 All-Sokol Rally in each of the places they visited. In the summer, they organized a Sokol-themed children's camp in the Czech Republic. The Sokols are thus trying to encourage Ukrainian children, and not only the descendants of our compatriots, to take up sport and let them forget, at least for a while, the war in their country.

The discovery of previously unknown recordings of Hrabal's lectures provides a rare, intimate insight into the author's world. The documentary film The Gentle Hrabal allows his authentic voice to be heard again after almost fifty years. Here, Hrabal speaks to students at his cottage in Kersko, and at other times to parishioners at the Protestant rectory in Libice.