Just only 🙂 Santa Claus is symbol of commercial agression in my country, there is a phrase “we didn´t accept some red bolshevik clown from the East – Russian Ded Maroz, we kicked him off to East back, after 1989 the same clown attacks us from West only with different name.” Czechoslovak bolsheviks tried to replace Christ-child and Christian base of Czech Chrismas with Russian Ded Maroz (very similar to Santa Claus) at the start of the 1950s. I am atheist but I respect traditions, so the gifts for me are given by Christ-child, who has been never seen by anybody 🙂 . When I was a small boy it was very magical to get presents from magical unknown Being. Santa Claus is only commercial clown here, people ignore that and more and more people is allergic about Santa symbol and there is some antisanta-movenents 🙂 in the Czechlands under slogan There is all of Christ-child here:-) . Sometimes and somewhere (especialy in supermarkets) it looks like two paraller Christmas – one in TV commercials and in shops with Santa and real Christmas among people in traditional way. BTW I know that Christ-child is Christmas symbol in Slovakia some part of Germany, Austria and in Hungary as well, isn´t it?

Donnie Darko
and

two excelent and clasic Czech films of the national cinema treasury, with Oscar award (but for me Oscar is absolutly not a proof of quality)
Obchod na korze
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059527/

Ostře sledované vlaky
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060802/

Well, we have the Czech a lot of centuries old traditional meal – breaded carp with potatoes salad, as all the Czechs. Whole 24. December day we don´t eat except noon cabbage soup with egg (maigre meal) for seeing “golden pig” as symbol of good fortune, and around 6 p.m. we have Christmas Eve dinner – carp and potatoes salad and Czech beer. After the dinner people here give presents to each other under Christmas tree. We have symbol of Christmas and donoring the Christ-child, not some Coca-Cola drunked clown in red, because Christmas is celebration of Christ birth, despite the Czechlands are the most atheistic county in the western World. We also celebration old Christian tradition of Saint Nikolas day in 6. December (bishop St. Nikolas was born in year 250 after Christ) he is similar to Santa Claus but in white and with Christian cross and crosier, he is going around the streets or houses with the Angel and the Devil in 5th December evening and ask children if they have been good or bad during a year and give a presents or bad child is taken by Devil to the Hell, St Nikolas is benefactor of children a lot of centuries.

The Motorcycle Diaries

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318462/

Nice one:D .It seems that this 20 minute “short” is included in a 5 disc Czech Republic collection by director Jan Sverak,which includes Kolya,Elementry School and Dark Blue World.Please tell us where we can order this box set.

Tmavomodrý svět, Obecná škola, Akumulátor, Ropáci, Jízda – 5DVD set box
Check this link:
http://www.dvdr.cz/zbozi_video.php?lang=en&shop=vi&id_zbozi=3208&pgnum=0