Reply-To: "Cultural Section" <[email protected]> From: "Cultural Section" <[email protected]> Subject: Cherry Blossoms and Jazz - April 9, 2006 from 12 noon - 1 pm at the Jefferson Memorial Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 16:04:02 -0400 Organization: Czech Embassy Dear Friends of Czech Culture: On April 12, 2006 at 7:00 pm, the Embassy of the Czech Republic will be screening the film Sekal Has to Die (Je treba zabit Sekala). Admission: Free An intense drama set in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, the film evolves around the main hero who becomes a hired killer against his will. Sekal hates everyone and everything. Through his bitterness and cruelty, he has denounced two farmers to the Nazis and in return received their property. In their fear, the remaining farmers decide that it is necessary to kill Sekal - but no one wants the job. Director Vladimir Michalek adapted Jiri Krizan's symbolic work of Nazi occupation as it plays out in a Catholic village in Moravia. (Dir. Michalek, 1998, 110 min., Czech with English subtitles) Reservations: 202/274-9100 x. 3413 / Questions: 202/274-9105 Take care, Mary E. Fetzko Cultural Section