Anatole France: island of penguins

In his satire The Island of the Penguins, Anatole France reflected mainly on French socio-historical realities, with a central role in the anti-Semitic wave that reached its peak in the so-called "Isle of the Penguins". Dreyfus affair. But for France, a huge intellectual boom, when he allegorically portrayed French history in the form of the chronicle of the Penguin Nation, the novel can also be placed as a poignant mirror of the history of Western civilization, the essence of Christianity, the bourgeoisie, nationalism and chauvinism in the broadest sense. Directed by Jiří Horčička, the cast includes: Luděk Munzar, Václav Postránecký, Karel Máj and Jaroslava Adamová.