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He collaborates with Czech Television as a scenarist and is the co-author of a screenplay for a television documentary on the expulsion of the Brno Germans after the Second World War (A průvod Němců šel…) as well as a documentary about the failed deportation of a German family from the Potštát region (Odsunutý odsun). A documentary film was made based on his book Smrt si říká Tutter – nacistický vrah ve službách StB (Death Calls Himself Tutter – A Nazi Murderer in the Service of the Czechoslovak Secret Police) (2002, 2005 in German under the title Der Tod heißt Tutter). In 2004 he published the first volume of Příběhů železné opony (Stories of the Iron Curtain), which became the basis for a television series of the same name. In 2006, Příběhy železné opony 2 (Stories of the Iron Curtain 2) came outand one year later Nové příběhy železné opony (New Stories of the Iron Curtain). The first volume of Příběhy železné opony was even translated into German (Vorfälle am Eisernen Vorhang, 2006).

            In 2007 a one-hour documentary was completed based on his screenplay about RAF pilot and Communist prisoner Josef Bryks by director Ján Novák (Muž, který přecenil českou duši aneb Útěky Josefa Brykse); the documentary received an award from the Olomouc Region. The television series Příběhy železné opony (project co-author together with Lenka Poláková) won the Elsa and Trilobit Award. Last year, together with Miroslav Kasáček, he published the book Mlynáři od Babic (Millers from Babice) about the tragic events of the 1950s in Babice near Třebíč. In 2008, Luděk Navara was awarded the Karel Havlíček Borovský Prize for journalism and in 2010 the Antoní Švehla Prize.

Deutsch Luděk NAVARA