Documentary filmmaker and film director Jan Kaplan, who has been living in the UK for decades, met with Bohumil Hrabal in the 1960s as a student in the writer's dwelling in Libeňská Street Na dam 24, which he visited with his classmate Michal Ajvaz. At that time, Kaplan had no idea that in 1990 Hrabal would serve as a guide in London. Today, the Czech-British director remembers this extraordinary day as if it were only yesterday. He also feels the same in the memory of the last meeting with the writer in the autumn of 1996 in the pub at the Golden Tiger, where Bohumil Hrabal photographed at his usual table. His portrait hangs in the pub to this day and is one of the many unpublished films that readers find in this book published for the centenary of Hrabal's birth. Documentary filmmaker and film director Jan Kaplan (born on February 25, 1949 in Prague) has lived in London since 1968. Here he also studied at the London School of Film Technique and since 1972 he has directed a number of documentary films. Among the most successful are the double agent Graham Greene (1975), Gloss and Royal Families (1981), Mr. Rothschild's Garden (1982), as Rabbin went to Oxford (1989), SS-3: Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (1992), Sarajevsky Assassination (1996) and Diamond King (2010). He has won numerous prestigious awards for his work, including in Tokyo, at the New York Film Festival and at the Chicago Festival (honorable recognition for the SS-3). Since 1983 he has been a member of the British Film and Television Academy (BAFTA). He is co -author of Prague publications in the shadow of the swastika (with Professor Callum MacDonald), Prague: The turbulent Century (with a nosarzewská) and Traveler’s Companion to Prague. In 1995 he organized an extensive exhibition of Prague in the shade of the swastika and is the author of the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Communism in Prague. In 2012, he created a large -scale video installation called 10:35 in the production of the Center for Contemporary Art DOX. Since the beginning of the 1990s, she has been working closely on most projects with her wife Krysty, director and producer. They are currently preparing a feature historical film that will be filmed in international co -production in the Czech Republic.