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Czech Republic, 2014, short film by Ondrej Hudecek

“Peacock” is an absurdist drama about the youth of Czech writer Ladislav Stroupežnický. He terrorizes a nineteenth-century Bohemian village with his mischief until war breaks out and he is forced to hide in a monastery where he unexpectedly discovers his hidden desires.

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Documentary captures Czechs' gold-medal run at 1998 Games

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Documentary captures Czechs' gold-medal run at 1998 Games

Kevin Allen  |  USA TODAY Sports

The Dominik Hasek-led Czech Republic’s gold medal hockey performance at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano is to Czechs what the Miracle on Ice is to Americans.

“In the Czech Republic, it is one of those moments where everyone remembers where they were when it happened,” American producer and director Frank Marshall says.

Marshall was fascinated enough by the team’s performance to become executive producer of the Nagano Tapes, a 73-minute documentary about the gold medal triumph, which will be shown at Olympicchannel.com starting Wednesday. It will also be shown on NBC Sports Network after the Wednesday Night Rivalry game between the Detroit Red Wings and St. Louis Blues.

Greg Groggel, director of original programming for the Olympic Channel, said when the film was previewed for a Czech audience at the recently completed Pyeongchang Olympics, “people were crying at the end.”

The documentary includes interviews from many key participants from Nagano, including Dominik Hasek, Jaromir Jagr, Petr Svoboda, Eric Lindros and Canadian coach Marc Crawford.

Nobody was picking the Czechs to win at Nagano, the first of five Olympics that used NHL players. The Canadians, Americans and Russians were the favorites. The Czechs had only 11 NHL players on their team but upset Canada in the semifinal, with Hasek stopping every shootout attempt, and beat Russia 1-0 in the final.

Czech native Ondrej Hudecek, who directed the film, was 10 when the Czechs pulled off the major upset. His ability to interview athletes in their native tongue adds another layer of authenticity to the film.

“The director started the interview with Hasek in English and then stopped it, and said ‘Can we do this in Czech?” Groggel said. “Hasek said ‘Of course’ and he was so much better in Czech.”

Marshall, whose Hollywood credits include executive producer of Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Bourne films, said he appreciated the honesty the players offered about the tournament, particularly Crawford explaining why he didn’t use Wayne Gretzky in the shootout.

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Crawford impishly says on camera that his epitaph will read that he was the “dummy” who didn’t use Gretzky.

The documentary uses a post-tournament interview with Gretzky in which says losing to the Czechs “the worst feeling I’ve ever had in hockey.”

Marshall said 40 interviews were done for the documentary.  Marshall and his team located never-seen-before 60-millimeter film shot at the Nagano Olympics. The film was pulled from a vault in a Swiss bank.

“It’s fantastic footage,” Marshall said. “The resolution is unbelievable.”

The film spends considerable time discussing the Czechs’ 2-1 triumph against Canada.

Fleury becomes one of the documentary’s stars as he discusses Hasek, the Canadians’ attitude and the shootout. In 1998, the NHL wasn’t using a shootout.

Fleury said Canadians just didn’t have a shootout mentality.

“A shootout is soccer, a soccer mentality I don’t understand,” Fleury said.

This documentary is about the Czechs’ win and how it fits into Czech history. But most hockey fans over 30 can appreciate how special it was when NHL players went to the Olympics for the first time in 1998.

“The 1998 tournament was a tournament of Dream Teams,” Groggel said. “I ask hockey people, was that the greatest hockey tournament of all time?”

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