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A portrait of Mark Podwal, American Jewish artist, writer, doctor of medicine and journalist. He owes his fame mainly to his drawings for The New York Times, but is also well known as the author of illustrations of books for both children and adults. His works have been on display in galleries and museums all over the world, and his art is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Fogg Art Museum, The Jewish Museum in Prague and the US Congress Library. His interest in Prague was aroused by Elie Wiesel´s book Golem, which he illustrated in the late 1970s. He visited Prague for the first time in 1996, and has been coming again very often ever since. Soon he started cooperating with Czech Jewish institutions and organisations. Most of his works relate to Jewish culture – history, legends and traditions. Specially admirable are his designs of liturgical textiles, such as the curtain, profuse in symbols, for the Old New Synagogue in Prague. The Czech capital was also the venue of the exhibition „Jewish Magic in the Art of Mark Podwal“. What else has this New Yorker discovered in the heart of Europe? And why does he keep returning to it?
SD | 26´ | © 2012
director(s): Jaroslav Hovorka
producer(s): Czech Television
scriptwriter(s): Jaroslav Hovorka
director of photography: František Chmela, Filip Havelka
cast: Mark Podwal, Karol Sidon, Leo Pavlát, Arno Pařík
rights available: TV, Video, Internet
original language: Czech, English