Vít Hořejš and Bonnie Stein on their indie movie co-starring 200-year-old Czech marionettes
About this episode
Vít Hořejš and Bonnie Stein discuss their indie film Wooden Hearts, featuring traditional Czech marionettes.
This week saw the first screening in Prague of the independent movie Wooden Hearts, which stars Vít Hořejš, founder of the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre. The fiction film also features many of the traditional puppets that Hořejš – who left Czechoslovakia in the late 1970s – uncovered in an old Czech church in Manhattan several decades ago. He and his life partner Bonnie Stein, who produced Wooden Hearts and also appears in the charming picture, stopped by at our studios just ahead of the screening.
Topics covered
- independent film
- marionettes
- Czech culture
- puppetry
- artistic collaboration
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