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Interviews, unique archival samples and from private collections, the most famous songs and reminiscences of well-known personalities of folk and country music in Czechoslovakia in the documentary cycle of Czech Television (2000). Directed by J. Vondrák Jaromír Nohavica's song Pravda a lež opens the ninth episode of the documentary TV show Legends of Folk, which is dedicated to festivals and clubs. Mirek Kovařík states that in the years 1969 – 1973, Prague's Lucerna country festivals came to life, and since the 1970s they have been held in various places. Among the most important clubs was the Malostranská beseda, which was originally founded as a Czech revival association in 1868. Its soul during the period of normalization was Robert Radosta. Few people are connected to a certain object as strongly as he is. When "Malostranská beseda" was mentioned, his name immediately jumped out at every folk singer. Mirek Kovařík also talks about the clubs in Slovakia, where he initially visited with Karel Kryl, and Josef "Mlok" Grim then details the organization of North Moravian Porta under the name Singing Totem in Karviná and Zábřeh in Moravia. Ivo Jahelka remembers the recessist Olomouc Tvarůžek festival, where he met Jiří Suchý and Jitka Molavcová.