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Poetry in Folk (2000). 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 series of Czech Television. Camera M. Mališek. Prepared by Jiří Vondrák Not only the legendary poet Josef Kainar (1917–1971) reflects on the meaning of the concept of poetry from the historical pictorial record, but also contemporary personalities of the folk scene Vladimír Třešňák, Vladimír Merta, Zdeněk Vřešťál, Karel Plíhal, Marek Eben and many others. The poet Mirek Kovářík, who becomes a kind of traveling guide in this documentary, is a Czech theater actor, cultural columnist and editor, actor, presenter and university teacher. He was one of the founding figures of Litvín's Pretty Small Theatre, which in the sixties of the 20th century was one of the most important Czech theaters of small forms. He is a tireless promoter of modern Czech poetry, an excellent reciter and longtime moderator of the Porto music festival. He discovered Václav Hrabět for Czech poetry, he was one of the first to recite Kerouac and Ginsberg in our country. He is also to thank for the fact that American beatniks are perhaps a bigger concept here than in North America itself.