Mini-series to center on aftermath of Jan Palach’s self-immolation

A lawyer’s quest for justice, post-1968 resignation of Czechoslovak society to be the focus of famous Polish director’s ‘Burning Bush’

Society|Arts & Leisure

Guest Writer | 24.02.2012

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Director Agnieszka Holland, seen above with ‘Burning Bush’ leading lady Tatiana Pauhofová (right), studied at Prague’s famous film school FAMU during the time when the events portrayed in the mini-series took place

A new three-part TV mini-series helmed by the internationally renowned Polish film director Agnieska Holland will take as its starting point the self-immolation of Jan Palach on Prague’s Wenceslas Square in January 1969. Palach, 20, committed that desperate act in protest at how Czechoslovak society had resigned itself to the Soviet-led occupation that began the previous August.

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