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Central Film Office Prague presents

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a film by the Film and TV School of
the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague

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THE WEEK STARTS ON FRIDAY

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A city means people, houses,
but mainly streets.

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We spend a third
of our lives on the street.

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But there's no time
for rest or sleep

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with so much hustle and bustle.

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Yet the street slows us down
with every step.

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It's tempting, enticing.

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Stop, look here!

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From early morning,
there's a car show.

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Here, a reading room
for the frugal.

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For jazz fans,
the pavement is their dance floor.

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For book lovers,
here's Kafka's latest edition.

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Just in! Sold out...

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How about a theatre show?

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Free entry for the young and the old.

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Should you be an admirer
of a literary muse,

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the street has something for you,

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a special treat...

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The best gallery,

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the best exhibition that would make
Rubens turn pale with envy.

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3 x 8, 5 x 12 metres,

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everything hand-made
and painted on canvas.

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A marquee
sounds like a remnant of feudalism.

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But don't be fooled.

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It's just a fancy name
for cinema billboards.

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Master painters
don't dream of eternal glory.

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In terms of efficiency, they strive
to maximise use of material.

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Quiet, please.

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We're at a workshop now.

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Let the muse speak.

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The work is complete.

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The marquee is
on its way to the audience.

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Every week on a Friday,
there's an opening.

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But there's no art historian
to make a speech.

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No review being written
for a newspaper.

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No proclamations of socialist realism.

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It's somewhat quiet
around this cultural event.

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Day after day,
hundreds of people pass by

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oblivious to
the mammoth gallery above them.

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Anyhow, the master artists
aren't hoping for any grand awards.

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Their ambitions are
rather modest and practical.

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If there's anything they're hoping for,
it's a curious audience,

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attracted to the box office
by their art.

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But reality
can be cruel sometimes.

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The triumphant glow of moving neon
heralds a new era.

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It's the end of the marquee.

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Technology replaces the human hand.

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In a few years
or even a few months,

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the last marquee will be laid
to rest forever in a marquee cemetery,

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lying alongside
its long discarded predecessors,

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becoming a junk market,
a burial site of artists' illusions.

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A distant memory.

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THE END