ELLF Zabili jsme Kennedyho - Ludvík Zifčák
Ludvík Zifčák (*1960). Autor je novinář a vydavatel nezávislého týdeníku Nové Bruntálsko. Do roku 2000 byl dopisovatelem deníku Špígl. Před tzv. Sametovou revolucí působil u československé kontrarozvědky, která úzce spolupracovala se sovětskou KGB. Před rokem 1989 se proslavil především tím, že se mu, jako jedinému »
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Louis Zifčák (* 1960). The author is a journalist and editor of the independent weekly New Bruntálsko. Until 2000 he was a correspondent for the journal Špígl. Before the Velvet Revolution he served in the Czechoslovak counter-intelligence, working closely with the Soviet KGB. Before 1989, most famous for the fact that he, as the only »
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Book: We killed Kennedy
Author: Zifčák, Louis
Louis Zifčák (* 1960). The author is a journalist and editor of the independent weekly New Bruntálsko. Until 2000 he was a correspondent for the journal Špígl. Before the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, he ... | Publishers: | ELLF |
| Year of publication: | 2008 |
| Number of pages: | 179 |
| Size: | 210 x 148 mm |
| Treatment: | illustrations, portraits |
| Issue: | First ed |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| ISBN: | 978-80-904078 |
| EAN: | 9788090407817 |
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Louis Zifčák (* 1960). The author is a journalist and editor of the independent weekly New Bruntálsko. Until 2000 he was a correspondent for the journal Špígl. Before the Velvet Revolution he served in the Czechoslovak counter-intelligence, working closely with the Soviet KGB.Before 1989, most famous for the fact that he, as the only Czechoslovak CounterSpy, managed to get in Czechoslovakia between the CIA, the BND, MI6 and Mossad. Under the cover is then participated in the organization of the political coup in Czechoslovakia and in 1992 was sold out within a few weeks-million cost of his Memoirs, which have become, at least in terms of sales, bestseller century. From 24 February 2001 is headed by radical Komunsitické Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Labour Part
KGB archives support Pacepa's assumptions., July 7, 2009
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Robert Buchar (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination (Hardcover)
Page 14: "The Soviet intelligence service mobilized all active agents and `sleepers' in the USA including those in the highest level in the US government. On November 15 they intercepted important information that preparation for the assassination of the President in the United States has began. Top secret information was delivered the same day to Khrushchev..."
Page 48: "As the President's trip to Dallas was approaching the activity in the Soviet Embassy was rising. The Soviet intelligence supplied new information about Kennedy's trip, all of them alarming. In the morning of November 20, 1963 Embassy sent to Moscow last top-secret message: "The assassination will take place probably in Dallas and the forces behind it will use it against the Soviet Union."
The Chairman of KGB Semicastnyj received the message the same day at 2PM and immediately contacted Khrushchev. The conversation like this followed:
"Hallo Nikita Sergejevjc. Excuse me but I have a very important message from Washington regarding president Kennedy. May I come over?"
"OK, come over Vladimir Jefrenovic, but as soon as possible please."
When Semicastnyj explained to Khrushchev the content of the message from Washington Nikita Sergejevic was silent for a while. "And what should we do about it now Vladimir Jefremovic?" Khrushchev asked.
"We could warn the President directly, Nikita Sergejevic," Semicastnyj offered immediately.
"It doesn't look like the best solution to me," Khrushchev replied. "President was briefed about our information already by CIA and I don't think Vladimir Jefrenovic we should be more forthcoming to Americans any more. On the other hand what guarantee we have that this information is not just a provocation against us?" Khrushchev went silent for a while and then he added: "Personally, I believe we should wait what will happen, Vladimir Jefremovic..."
Page 146: "...when speculations about possible involvement of Cuban G2 in the Kennedy's assassination surfaced Khrushchev a couple of times said: "If the Cuban involvement in the assassination of the President of the United States would be confirmed the Soviet Union wouldn't be able to support the international terrorism."
Page 157: "...At the same time KGB assigned the agent Marina Nikolajevna Prusakova on Oswald. Her assignment was to find out Oswald's objectives in the Soviet Union and to develop the position for the later relocation in the United States and establishing her position there. KGB was doing everything to make this happen including the plan of traveling the US as Oswald's wife. Regardless of Prusakova's cover job in the health sector she was actually the personal office clerk in the 1st Department of GRU. Marina was from the family of Soviet Interior Ministry colonel Prusakov and she was trained, during Seljepin leadership, for covert operation in the US or Canada. For her age she was relatively highly educated, spoke other languages and, following the script written by KGB, she quickly fall in love with Oswald. Following the same script the Soviets announced to Oswald on October 21, 1959 that his visa has expired and he must leave Moscow within 2 hours. Oswald responded by staging suicide attempt cutting his arteries on the left hand. He was hospitalized in the hospital where Prusakova has free access to him purposefully building their relationship.....After detailed debriefing where KGB focused on military information, Soviet intelligence decided leave Oswald in the Soviet Union but don't grant him the citizenship. For a good reason. As the Soviet citizen Oswald would have no value for KGB. The objective was to get him and agent Prusakova back to the USA."
Page 158: "After their return to the United States Oswald and his wife Marina attracted attention of CIA and FBI. It is clear from KGB documents that she was in close touch with the Soviet intelligence all the time informing them about the preparation for the assassination. Her activity prevented later indictment of the Soviet Union and Cuba in the assassination plot. Based on Marina's information both countries refused to give visa to Oswald shortly before the assassination. It became clear later that information sent by Marina to the Soviet intelligence probably prevented the war because American intelligence services wanted to blame Soviet Union and Castro's regime for Kennedy's assassination."
Page 171: "Embassy in Washington sent following information to Moscow: "Dallas Court is hiding the information about the contact between Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Rubby. According to the court's records both men met on October 4, 1963. During the meeting they discussed options of the President's assassination and it's financing..."
According to the information from the Soviet agent the assassination was discussed 50 days in advance."
Anyway, Pacepa's book "Programmed to Kill" is an excellent reading for everyone interested in the mystery of Kennedy's assassination. With Zifcak co-incidentally supporting Pacepa's picture this book shines new light on the case, the light nobody else would dare to turn on.
Robert Buchar
Robin Ramsay, the editor of Lobster Magazine, has sent me this.
http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/
This review is from: Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination (Hardcover)
American readers probably missed the fact that four months after Pacepa's book came out Ludvik Zifcak, the former intelligence officer in Czechoslovakia, published his book "We Killed Kennedy" (Zabili jsme Kennedyho, Nakladatelstvi ELLF). In this book Zifcak, using records from KGB archives in Moscow, fills in essential information supporting Pacepa's hypothesis. See for yourself:
Page 14: "The Soviet intelligence service mobilized all active agents and `sleepers' in the USA including those in the highest level in the US government. On November 15 they intercepted important information that preparation for the assassination of the President in the United States has began. Top secret information was delivered the same day to Khrushchev..."
Page 48: "As the President's trip to Dallas was approaching the activity in the Soviet Embassy was rising. The Soviet intelligence supplied new information about Kennedy's trip, all of them alarming. In the morning of November 20, 1963 Embassy sent to Moscow last top-secret message: "The assassination will take place probably in Dallas and the forces behind it will use it against the Soviet Union."
The Chairman of KGB Semicastnyj received the message the same day at 2PM and immediately contacted Khrushchev. The conversation like this followed:
"Hallo Nikita Sergejevjc. Excuse me but I have a very important message from Washington regarding president Kennedy. May I come over?"
"OK, come over Vladimir Jefrenovic, but as soon as possible please."
When Semicastnyj explained to Khrushchev the content of the message from Washington Nikita Sergejevic was silent for a while. "And what should we do about it now Vladimir Jefremovic?" Khrushchev asked.
"We could warn the President directly, Nikita Sergejevic," Semicastnyj offered immediately.
"It doesn't look like the best solution to me," Khrushchev replied. "President was briefed about our information already by CIA and I don't think Vladimir Jefrenovic we should be more forthcoming to Americans any more. On the other hand what guarantee we have that this information is not just a provocation against us?" Khrushchev went silent for a while and then he added: "Personally, I believe we should wait what will happen, Vladimir Jefremovic..."
Page 146: "...when speculations about possible involvement of Cuban G2 in the Kennedy's assassination surfaced Khrushchev a couple of times said: "If the Cuban involvement in the assassination of the President of the United States would be confirmed the Soviet Union wouldn't be able to support the international terrorism."
Page 157: "...At the same time KGB assigned the agent Marina Nikolajevna Prusakova on Oswald. Her assignment was to find out Oswald's objectives in the Soviet Union and to develop the position for the later relocation in the United States and establishing her position there. KGB was doing everything to make this happen including the plan of traveling the US as Oswald's wife. Regardless of Prusakova's cover job in the health sector she was actually the personal office clerk in the 1st Department of GRU. Marina was from the family of Soviet Interior Ministry colonel Prusakov and she was trained, during Seljepin leadership, for covert operation in the US or Canada. For her age she was relatively highly educated, spoke other languages and, following the script written by KGB, she quickly fall in love with Oswald. Following the same script the Soviets announced to Oswald on October 21, 1959 that his visa has expired and he must leave Moscow within 2 hours. Oswald responded by staging suicide attempt cutting his arteries on the left hand. He was hospitalized in the hospital where Prusakova has free access to him purposefully building their relationship.....After detailed debriefing where KGB focused on military information, Soviet intelligence decided leave Oswald in the Soviet Union but don't grant him the citizenship. For a good reason. As the Soviet citizen Oswald would have no value for KGB. The objective was to get him and agent Prusakova back to the USA."
Page 158: "After their return to the United States Oswald and his wife Marina attracted attention of CIA and FBI. It is clear from KGB documents that she was in close touch with the Soviet intelligence all the time informing them about the preparation for the assassination. Her activity prevented later indictment of the Soviet Union and Cuba in the assassination plot. Based on Marina's information both countries refused to give visa to Oswald shortly before the assassination. It became clear later that information sent by Marina to the Soviet intelligence probably prevented the war because American intelligence services wanted to blame Soviet Union and Castro's regime for Kennedy's assassination."
Page 171: "Embassy in Washington sent following information to Moscow: "Dallas Court is hiding the information about the contact between Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Rubby. According to the court's records both men met on October 4, 1963. During the meeting they discussed options of the President's assassination and it's financing..."
According to the information from the Soviet agent the assassination was discussed 50 days in advance."
Anyway, Pacepa's book "Programmed to Kill" is an excellent reading for everyone interested in the mystery of Kennedy's assassination. With Zifcak co-incidentally supporting Pacepa's picture this book shines new light on the case, the light nobody else would dare to turn on.
Robert Buchar
http://www.amazon.co...ef=cm_cr_pr_pdp
http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/
This review is from: Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination (Hardcover)
American readers probably missed the fact that four months after Pacepa's book came out Ludvik Zifcak, the former intelligence officer in Czechoslovakia, published his book "We Killed Kennedy" (Zabili jsme Kennedyho, Nakladatelstvi ELLF). In this book Zifcak, using records from KGB archives in Moscow, fills in essential information supporting Pacepa's hypothesis. See for yourself:
Page 14: "The Soviet intelligence service mobilized all active agents and `sleepers' in the USA including those in the highest level in the US government. On November 15 they intercepted important information that preparation for the assassination of the President in the United States has began. Top secret information was delivered the same day to Khrushchev..."
Page 48: "As the President's trip to Dallas was approaching the activity in the Soviet Embassy was rising. The Soviet intelligence supplied new information about Kennedy's trip, all of them alarming. In the morning of November 20, 1963 Embassy sent to Moscow last top-secret message: "The assassination will take place probably in Dallas and the forces behind it will use it against the Soviet Union."
The Chairman of KGB Semicastnyj received the message the same day at 2PM and immediately contacted Khrushchev. The conversation like this followed:
"Hallo Nikita Sergejevjc. Excuse me but I have a very important message from Washington regarding president Kennedy. May I come over?"
"OK, come over Vladimir Jefrenovic, but as soon as possible please."
When Semicastnyj explained to Khrushchev the content of the message from Washington Nikita Sergejevic was silent for a while. "And what should we do about it now Vladimir Jefremovic?" Khrushchev asked.
"We could warn the President directly, Nikita Sergejevic," Semicastnyj offered immediately.
"It doesn't look like the best solution to me," Khrushchev replied. "President was briefed about our information already by CIA and I don't think Vladimir Jefrenovic we should be more forthcoming to Americans any more. On the other hand what guarantee we have that this information is not just a provocation against us?" Khrushchev went silent for a while and then he added: "Personally, I believe we should wait what will happen, Vladimir Jefremovic..."
Page 146: "...when speculations about possible involvement of Cuban G2 in the Kennedy's assassination surfaced Khrushchev a couple of times said: "If the Cuban involvement in the assassination of the President of the United States would be confirmed the Soviet Union wouldn't be able to support the international terrorism."
Page 157: "...At the same time KGB assigned the agent Marina Nikolajevna Prusakova on Oswald. Her assignment was to find out Oswald's objectives in the Soviet Union and to develop the position for the later relocation in the United States and establishing her position there. KGB was doing everything to make this happen including the plan of traveling the US as Oswald's wife. Regardless of Prusakova's cover job in the health sector she was actually the personal office clerk in the 1st Department of GRU. Marina was from the family of Soviet Interior Ministry colonel Prusakov and she was trained, during Seljepin leadership, for covert operation in the US or Canada. For her age she was relatively highly educated, spoke other languages and, following the script written by KGB, she quickly fall in love with Oswald. Following the same script the Soviets announced to Oswald on October 21, 1959 that his visa has expired and he must leave Moscow within 2 hours. Oswald responded by staging suicide attempt cutting his arteries on the left hand. He was hospitalized in the hospital where Prusakova has free access to him purposefully building their relationship.....After detailed debriefing where KGB focused on military information, Soviet intelligence decided leave Oswald in the Soviet Union but don't grant him the citizenship. For a good reason. As the Soviet citizen Oswald would have no value for KGB. The objective was to get him and agent Prusakova back to the USA."
Page 158: "After their return to the United States Oswald and his wife Marina attracted attention of CIA and FBI. It is clear from KGB documents that she was in close touch with the Soviet intelligence all the time informing them about the preparation for the assassination. Her activity prevented later indictment of the Soviet Union and Cuba in the assassination plot. Based on Marina's information both countries refused to give visa to Oswald shortly before the assassination. It became clear later that information sent by Marina to the Soviet intelligence probably prevented the war because American intelligence services wanted to blame Soviet Union and Castro's regime for Kennedy's assassination."
Page 171: "Embassy in Washington sent following information to Moscow: "Dallas Court is hiding the information about the contact between Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Rubby. According to the court's records both men met on October 4, 1963. During the meeting they discussed options of the President's assassination and it's financing..."
According to the information from the Soviet agent the assassination was discussed 50 days in advance."
Anyway, Pacepa's book "Programmed to Kill" is an excellent reading for everyone interested in the mystery of Kennedy's assassination. With Zifcak co-incidentally supporting Pacepa's picture this book shines new light on the case, the light nobody else would dare to turn on.
Robert Buchar
http://www.amazon.co...ef=cm_cr_pr_pdp
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Posted 14 February 2011 - 01:05 PM
Michael Ledeen has also reviewed Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination at Amazon:
A new book from General Ion Mihai Pacepa is cause for celebration, because he is among a tiny handful of people who know a lot about the intelligence services of the Soviet Empire, and because he writes about it with rare lucidity, always with an eye to helping us understand our world. His first book, "Red Horizons," is indubitably the most brilliant portrait of a Communist regime I've ever read. "Programmed to Kill" is equally fascinating, not least because it contains both a convincing theory about the Kennedy Assassination and scores of enlightening stories about Pacepa's own life, many of which I had never heard before.
Pacepa was unique in the Cold War: the highest ranking intelligence officer to defect from the Soviet bloc. He was Ceausescu's top strategic adviser, and the acting chief of the Romanian secret intelligence service. His defection resulted in the total shutdown of the Romanians' clandestine activities, making him unique in the history of modern espionage. Moreover, his many intimate working relations with Soviet intelligence officials made him an invaluable source of information and understanding of our major enemy.
He arrived in Washington back in 1978 with two blockbuster messages: first, that the presentation of Ceausescu as an "independent Communist" with whom the United States could work, was a deliberate deception. And second, that Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of John F. Kennedy, was an agent of the KGB, programmed to kill JFK, and did so despite frantic Soviet efforts to stop him.
American officials hated both of those messages, because they were in direct conflict with what the U.S. Intelligence Community had been telling successive presidents, and challenged the bases of much of American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union. Both the Intelligence Community and the State Department had assured the White House that Ceausescu was genuinely independent, and `we could work with him.' Pacepa showed that Ceausescu worked in lockstep with the Soviets, and, for example, was tricking the United States into selling advanced technology to Romania that went directly to Moscow. For a while some of the spooks were so upset with what Pacepa had to say that they threatened to send him back to Romania, and certain death, a testament to the lengths to which some bureaucrats will go to silence someone who has "bad news" they don't want heard.
I don't think anyone can read "Programmed to Kill" and still believe that Oswald had no working relationship with the KGB. Pacepa painstakingly takes us through the documentary evidence, including invaluable material on Soviet bloc cyphers that throws new light on Oswald's letters to KGB officers in Washington and Mexico City. And he argues convincingly that the KGB had assigned a case officer to Oswald, about which I will say no more except that his secrets were on the verge of becoming public, whereupon he blew his brains out.
No novelist could have written a more exciting story, made all the more compelling because of Pacepa's first-hand involvement in the Russians' efforts to hide their Oswald connection. He spent many hours writing the language that disinformation agents were to use with their Western friends, and he recognizes his words in some of the articles and books that purported to tell the true story of the Kennedy Assassination.
Why were the Soviets so desperate to stop Oswald? Surely not because they had suddenly developed moral qualms about assassination, and least of all because Khrushchev -- who had ordered the operation in the first place- -- ad decided Kennedy was a good guy. Khrushchev didn't just call off Oswald's operation, he cancelled all assassinations after a KGB agent had been caught in West Germany in the course of a similar operation. The Soviet dictator decided it was best to lie low for a while, and several murderous plots were put on hold. This, too, was part of Pacepa's work.
Finally there is the fascinating question of Jack Ruby, Oswald's killer. Pacepa is not convinced by Ruby's claim that he killed Oswald out of rage. Pacepa thinks he acted at the behest of the Cuban regime, and was later poisoned in order to silence him.
It's a complicated tale, because, Pacepa argues, you need to know a great deal about Soviet intelligence methods in order to understand the evidence. To that end, he provides a long supplement at the end of "Programmed to Kill," entitled "Connecting the Dots." He goes through the evidentiary trail bit by bit, including his own experiences that help understand the "dots."
It's entirely appropriate, for Pacepa's own life is the key to understanding that terrible moment in November, 1963, from which so much of the contemporary world took shape.
Michael Ledeen
http://www.amazon.co...ef=cm_cr_pr_pdp
A new book from General Ion Mihai Pacepa is cause for celebration, because he is among a tiny handful of people who know a lot about the intelligence services of the Soviet Empire, and because he writes about it with rare lucidity, always with an eye to helping us understand our world. His first book, "Red Horizons," is indubitably the most brilliant portrait of a Communist regime I've ever read. "Programmed to Kill" is equally fascinating, not least because it contains both a convincing theory about the Kennedy Assassination and scores of enlightening stories about Pacepa's own life, many of which I had never heard before.
Pacepa was unique in the Cold War: the highest ranking intelligence officer to defect from the Soviet bloc. He was Ceausescu's top strategic adviser, and the acting chief of the Romanian secret intelligence service. His defection resulted in the total shutdown of the Romanians' clandestine activities, making him unique in the history of modern espionage. Moreover, his many intimate working relations with Soviet intelligence officials made him an invaluable source of information and understanding of our major enemy.
He arrived in Washington back in 1978 with two blockbuster messages: first, that the presentation of Ceausescu as an "independent Communist" with whom the United States could work, was a deliberate deception. And second, that Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of John F. Kennedy, was an agent of the KGB, programmed to kill JFK, and did so despite frantic Soviet efforts to stop him.
American officials hated both of those messages, because they were in direct conflict with what the U.S. Intelligence Community had been telling successive presidents, and challenged the bases of much of American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union. Both the Intelligence Community and the State Department had assured the White House that Ceausescu was genuinely independent, and `we could work with him.' Pacepa showed that Ceausescu worked in lockstep with the Soviets, and, for example, was tricking the United States into selling advanced technology to Romania that went directly to Moscow. For a while some of the spooks were so upset with what Pacepa had to say that they threatened to send him back to Romania, and certain death, a testament to the lengths to which some bureaucrats will go to silence someone who has "bad news" they don't want heard.
I don't think anyone can read "Programmed to Kill" and still believe that Oswald had no working relationship with the KGB. Pacepa painstakingly takes us through the documentary evidence, including invaluable material on Soviet bloc cyphers that throws new light on Oswald's letters to KGB officers in Washington and Mexico City. And he argues convincingly that the KGB had assigned a case officer to Oswald, about which I will say no more except that his secrets were on the verge of becoming public, whereupon he blew his brains out.
No novelist could have written a more exciting story, made all the more compelling because of Pacepa's first-hand involvement in the Russians' efforts to hide their Oswald connection. He spent many hours writing the language that disinformation agents were to use with their Western friends, and he recognizes his words in some of the articles and books that purported to tell the true story of the Kennedy Assassination.
Why were the Soviets so desperate to stop Oswald? Surely not because they had suddenly developed moral qualms about assassination, and least of all because Khrushchev -- who had ordered the operation in the first place- -- ad decided Kennedy was a good guy. Khrushchev didn't just call off Oswald's operation, he cancelled all assassinations after a KGB agent had been caught in West Germany in the course of a similar operation. The Soviet dictator decided it was best to lie low for a while, and several murderous plots were put on hold. This, too, was part of Pacepa's work.
Finally there is the fascinating question of Jack Ruby, Oswald's killer. Pacepa is not convinced by Ruby's claim that he killed Oswald out of rage. Pacepa thinks he acted at the behest of the Cuban regime, and was later poisoned in order to silence him.
It's a complicated tale, because, Pacepa argues, you need to know a great deal about Soviet intelligence methods in order to understand the evidence. To that end, he provides a long supplement at the end of "Programmed to Kill," entitled "Connecting the Dots." He goes through the evidentiary trail bit by bit, including his own experiences that help understand the "dots."
It's entirely appropriate, for Pacepa's own life is the key to understanding that terrible moment in November, 1963, from which so much of the contemporary world took shape.
Michael Ledeen
http://www.amazon.co...ef=cm_cr_pr_pdp
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Considering Michael Ledeen's background, this could well be a CIA disinformation campaign.
http://en.wikipedia..../Michael_Ledeen
Robert Buchar is also a very interesting character.
http://en.wikipedia....i/Robert_Buchar
http://en.wikipedia..../Michael_Ledeen
Robert Buchar is also a very interesting character.
http://en.wikipedia....i/Robert_Buchar
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Posted 14 February 2011 - 03:53 PM
Agent Hosty told me that he believed if there was a spy in the Oswald family it was Marina. He thought she was a sleeper. He also didn't like her, and called her a 'snake-in-the-grass', which seemed a bit excessive, especially considering how the WC and almost everyone else saw her as a lovely victim.
Robert Buchar
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Robert Buchar is an American cinematographer, filmmaker, film director and producer, born in 1951 [1] in Hradec Králové, former Czechoslovakia.
In 1966 he came to Prague to study photography at the Secondary School of Graphic Arts, and cinematography at FAMU, the Film Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated as M.F.A. in 1975. He worked as a cinematographer mainly for the documentary section of Krátký film, before defecting to the United States in 1980. There he worked as a cameraman for CBS until 1989, photographed over twenty films and documentaries in the U.S. and Europe. He also works as director of photography on independent films and commercials.
Since 1989 he teaches cinematography at the Columbia College in Chicago, where he became head of the Cinematography Concentration, the faculty's cinematography program, an advanced production course he developed.[2][3]
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[hide]Documentary features[edit]
Velvet Hangover[edit]
His, and David Smith's[1], feature-length documentary film Velvet Hangover about the Czech New Wave and the Czech film industry before and after the Velvet Revolution was screened in film festivals around the world. Some of the critics' appraisals:
| “ | ...an intriguing historical document which charts the state of Czech cinema in the sixties, under the years of Normalisation in the seventies and eighties, and its encounter with the new economic "liberalism" of the nineties...[4] | ” |
| “ | ...a long-overdue doc on that dark period and the perceived post-1989 Velvet Revolution industry doldrums...lengthy and composed primarily of talking heads, pic is riveting across the board: Human rights advocates and fans of true-life underdog tales will be as enraptured as students of Eastern European cinema...a must for fests, tube and vid...a veritable gold mine of behind-the-scenes info on the fates of various New Wave filmmakers in two distinct periods...[5] | ” |
| “ | ...archly-titled anatomy of Czech film, past and present...recollections...frank commentary from the directors and cinematographers themselves...a riveting document...all remarkably articulate and offer their convictions eloquently, in an understated way...Fourteen prominent figures, young and old...Some are angry, some melancholy. They reminisce: they muse; they judge; they tell personal anecdotes...Velvet Hangover compels...the filmmakers raise issues that are universal. Should film entertain or bear some moral purpose? Can film communicate ideas? Should contemporary themes be a focus?...generated passionate reactions among Czech officials and the media...trouble getting [the film] aired or shown theatrically, although it has been making the rounds at festivals and film clubs...national television asked Buchar to take out Milota's unflattering remarks about President Václav Havel. He refused. Outrage over a seeming return to censorship finally forced Czech TV to air the film...[6] | ” |
Featuring in Velvet Hangover (in alphabetic order):
The Collapse of Communism – The Untold Story[edit]
Currently (November 2009) Buchar's another documentary The Collapse of Communism – The Untold Story[7] is in postproduction. According to some critics, it showcases the KGB's orchestration and management of the breakup of the Soviet Union. According to some critics, it promotes a conspiracy theory that the fall of communism in Eastern Europe was a hoax.[8] Buchar's own view (supporting his critics):
| “ | Our witnesses testify that what appeared to be a spontaneous freedom movement in 1989 was in fact a coup d’état orchestrated from Moscow—in offices of the Russian KGB... ...People will simply believe what they wish to believe. More people indulge their own ideas of the world rather than deal with its realities... ...I realized that the collapse of the communism in Europe is one of the most incredible stories of the century and the public should know what really happened... ...I collected unprecedented body of interviews that, when edited together, paints the big picture of what really happened... ...After all it may be useful for you to find out who framed Roger Rabbit...[7] | ” |
Featuring in The Collapse of Communism (in alphabetic order):
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- Tennent H. Bagley
- Vladimir Bukovsky
- Angelo Codevilla
- Petr Cibulka
- František Doskočil
- Joseph D.Douglass, Jr.
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Filmography[edit]
documentaries, feature-length, also as director / producer
- Velvet Hangover, together with David Smith, 1999/2000, USA
(in Czech: Sametová kocovina, 2002) - The Collapse of Communism – The Untold Story, 2009/2010, USA
other, (mainly / also) as director of photography[9]
- Four Seasons (in Czech: Čtvero ročních dob), 2008
- Bear Not to Be, 1968
- Certainly, 1969
- The Club, 1971
- In the Sign of Eagle, 1978
- The Comets, 1979
- City in the Center of the City, 1979
- Etology of Animals, 1980
- Basic Meditation Exercise, directed by George Drasnar (Jiří Drašnar)[9] [10](in Czech), 1981
- Go West-Sing West, 1991
- Where are you, 1992
- The Land of Youth, 1992
- Granny, 1998
- Poslední z rodu, directed by Drahomíra Vihanová, Czechoslovakia, 1977
Books[edit]
- Czech New Wave Filmmakers in Interviews, foreword by Antonin J. Liehm, McFarland & Company, 2003 (based upon the Velvet Hangover documentary)
- And Reality be Damned... December 2009, Eloquent Strategic Publishing [11] (based upon The Collapse of Communism – The Untold Storydocumentary)
in Czech: Revoluce 1989 – utajené informace ze zákulisí, Brána, 2009
- professional
- Design of the photographic and the cinematographic image, with Jan Smok, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Prague 2001
- The Spotmeter and its application in cinematography and video (on proper metering techniques)[10]
References[edit]
- ^ Recenze : Sametová kocovina (Velvet Hangover) (in Czech), Pilsen Film festival 2001, with photos of Buchar and film poster with David Černý's famous Horse
- ^ "Eight Films Emerge". Kodak. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
- ^ entry at Columbia College : Film and Video : Faculty website
- ^ "Wild Decades and Velvet Hangovers". by Peter Hames, Transitions Online. 2001-05-21. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
- ^ Velvet Hangover review by Eddie Cockrell, Variety, February 28, 2002
- ^ Velvet Hangover. (Short Takes). by Louis Menashe, Cineaste, March 22, 2002
- ^ a b collapseof communism.com – author's website of the film The Collapse of Communism – The Untold Story
- ^ J.R. Nyquist (2007-09-14). "Filming the Great Deception". financialsense.com. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
- ^ Freedom Film Festival 2002: The Films
- ^ books' entry on amazon.com
External links[edit]
- BucharFilm – author's website
- Robert Buchar – entry at IMDb web
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