Time to Back Track... Prague!!!

We are reaching the final stop of our trip: Prague. I studied abroad in this city for almost five months and I absolutely loved it. Before I go into great detail about my time there, comment on the culture, entertainment, history, and what to do I want to give you a sampling of Prague that is completely free of my opinions.

Photographs, won't do the real beauty of Prague justice but they certainly help. I want to share two movie trailers: one is a Czechoslovakian New Wave film and the other is a modern Czech film. I want to juxtapose these two because I want you to come to a conclusion on your own about the changes in entertainment from when Czechoslovakia was under Communist rule to the modern day Czech Republic.

The view of Prague Castle from across the Vltava River:






The park next to my school:





Having fun with friends in Prague's Old Town Square:




Having a good old time on the famous Charles Bridge:




Now for the trailers:

Jiri Menzel's 1966 film "Closely Watched Trains"



Jiri Menzel's 2006 film "I Served the King of England"




Both are based on novels by the esteemed Czech writer Bohumil Hrabel and deal with similar coming of age issues, but notice their differences based on the radically different political periods they were made in.