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‘They Call Me Lars’: Hardboiled Czech Film Noir with Martin Hofmann Opens in Prague Cinemas

The new Czech crime thriller They Call Me Lars (Říkají mi Lars) opens in cinemas nationwide from April 16, offering an atypical take on the hardboiled detective genre set against the backdrop of contemporary Prague. Directed by Jaroslav Fuit and starring Martin Hofmann, the film adapts a popular novel by writer Daniel Gris, translating its mix of humor, cynicism, and genre homage to the big screen. Positioned as a tribute to classic noir storyte…
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/REVIEW/ A guaranteed way to kill a good crime film is a chatty script. And a perpetrator you can guess within the first twenty minutes. The creators of the film They Call Me Lars, in cinemas from Thursday, offer a demonstration of how not to make a thriller. Instead of the promised atmospheric genre film, they serve up almost two hours of boredom.

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Prague - The first of the seven-part detective series by the author writing under the pseudonym Daniel Gris about the private detective Lars has been made into a film. Martin Hofmann plays the lead role in the film They Call Me Lars, which premieres tonight at the Lucerna in Prague and opens in cinemas on Thursday. The roughly two-hour, sharp crime film set in contemporary Prague, directed by Jaroslav Fuit, was presented to journalists by repres…

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ceskenoviny.cz broke the news on Wednesday, April 15, 2026.
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