Karel Kryl's concert in Prague's Lucerna, which also featured singer-songwriter and commentator Ivan Hoffman, took place on the occasion of the release of Kryl's album Maškary in 1991. In addition to the title song, other songs from the creative workshop of the indomitable rebel were also performed, including Songs of the Singer Bacillus, Lullabies, From the Echoes of Songs, Caravan of Clouds, Song of Food, Babylon and others.
Looks at the United States as it becomes an increasingly diverse nation. Tracing the history of significant changes in the Immigration and Nationality Act beginning in 1965, this program introduces a dramatic vision of a multi-cultural America where people of color are the new majority.
Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age.
Claude, a militant anarchist, is caught stealing and is shot by a policeman while fleeing the scene. Dodo, a hairdresser, is hit by one of the stray bullets.
A luxury home, a handsome husband and terrific children. But it all comes crashing down when she is accused of being a mastermind behind a brutal triple-homicide and is arrested and handcuffed in front of her own children.
