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One of the distinctive qualities of director Adolf Zika is the ability to recognize talent in modest people who seemingly do not surpass their surroundings. This also happened in the case of the young dancer and artist Kristián Mensa, who caught his eye literally at first sight. He immediately began working on the film script, but the global crisis in the form of the onset of the Covid-19 disease significantly affected these preparations. Now we are happy to announce that the film Mr. KRISS was completed the following year and had a successful premiere on June 8, 2021 on the Czech Television ČT2 program.

Adolf Zika managed to put the essentials of Kristián Mensa's amazing personality into the 58-minute documentary, namely, above all, the humility, modesty and fascinating calm of a man who had to overcome many obstacles and handicaps and yet reached the absolute top in his actions. When asked whether he is more of a dancer or an artist, Kristián answers that he draws with his body while dancing and dances on paper with his drawings. And you will see all of this with your own eyes in the film. Its excellent execution is also evidenced by its very high rating on the website csfd.cz.

The corona crisis in the spring of 2020 significantly affected the lives of all people, not only in the Czech Republic. Director Adolf Zika filmed a unique and historically valuable documentary called Spring in Emergency about how our republic lived throughout the state of emergency. He looked at the whole situation from a completely different perspective than we know it from the media and created a visually interesting and original view of how the epidemic, quarantine and state of emergency changed us.

The entire film was created on the fly from the first to the last day of the declared state of emergency and features ordinary residents of various age groups, experts on the issue of epidemics, teachers, singers, athletes and many other people who are somehow affected by the state of emergency.

How did hysteria and panic affect us? Were all the measures justified? Will the world ever return to normal? The film reflects on many of the questions that surround us and shows the entire epidemic as an interesting test of the current global system.

We are delighted to finally announce that after more than six months of intensive work, Adolf Zika has completed a 30-part documentary series for Czech Television commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.

The first episode of this unique mini-documentary series, Velvet Footprints, or “30 Years of Freedom in 30 Images”, will premiere on November 17, 2019, on Czech Television’s ČT1 channel at 8:00 p.m. — symbolically on the anniversary itself. This episode will also launch a month-long “docu-marathon,” with all thirty episodes broadcast consecutively, one each day, on ČT1 right after the evening news.

Until the end of the 2019 holidays, an exhibition of ADOLF ZIKA's private collection of photographs will be on display at the ART Gallery in Prague's Old Town Square, which includes a unique opportunity to purchase the latest originals or author's prints by Adolf Zika. All sales prints are numbered and the first fifty are signed and come with an author's certificate of authenticity.

Today marks exactly 18 years since the entire content of “THE LAST BOOK OF THE CENTURY” was created in a single day. The author of the unique project is photographer and director Adolf Zika, who invited 120 professional photographers to use their cameras to record the life around them on Tuesday, October 10, 2000. An ordinary day with dreary autumn weather, traffic jams in the streets, the peak of the beet campaign, people rushing to work, having fun in the evening in bars, cinemas, theatres... or even the birth of a new life... From the pictures taken, Adolf Zika compiled an epic publication with the subtitle “A Day in the Life of the Czech Republic”, which became the largest book project of 2000 and which is celebrating its coming of age today.