‘Broken Voices’ Filmmaker Ondřej Provazník On The Delicate Nature Of Making A Film Inspired By A Notorious Girls’ Choir Sex Scandal – Karlovy Vary

‘Broken Voices’ Filmmaker Ondřej Provazník On The Delicate Nature Of Making A Film Inspired By A Notorious Girls’ Choir Sex Scandal – Karlovy Vary

Czech writer-director Ondřej Provazník was sitting in a bar one evening in 2004 while attending Prague’s renowned film and television school FAMU when he heard a group of women singing in beautiful, choral voices to a man on their mobile phone. At the time, he couldn’t help but overhear who they were talking to: It […]

‘Broken Voices’ Review: A Girl’s Dreams Are Shattered by Sexual Predation in an Artful Drama From the Czech Republic

Writer-director Ondrej Provasnik's coming-of-age tale was inspired by the true story of a renowned youth choir whose musical director was convicted of sexual abuse.

'Broken Voices' Review: Disquieting Czech Drama Is 'Whiplash' for Singing

There are so many ways for a film like writer/director Ondrej Provaznik’s “Broken Voices” to go wrong. Based on the infamous real-life Bambini di Praga case in which a Czech choir director was convicted of sexually abusing almost two dozen young girls, it’s a largely restrained yet no less unsettling exploration of how an acclaimed choir becomes a place of widespread abuse of children. The film, which premiered on Sunday at the Karlovy Vary Inte…

‘Broken Voices’ Revisits Infamous Sexual Abuse Case That Shook Czech Republic: ‘If Anything Happens to You, Please Tell Someone’

‘Broken Voices,' directed by Ondrej Provazník and bowing at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, revisits the infamous Bambini di Praga sexual abuse case.

'Broken Voices' Revisits Infamous Sexual Abuse Case That Shook Czech ...