Photo from 'Czechoslovakia - Portrait of A Tragedy' - ČT/Saturday House
In search of Sid
BBC From Our Own Correspondent
2020-03-19
A random face in a documentary about the Prague Spring led to a wild goose chase to track down its owner. It belonged to Zdeněk ‘Sid’ Kučera, a jazz trumpeter and singer whose band was filmed performing Georgie Fame’s Bonnie and Clyde in a Prague club. Sid emigrated not long after the Soviet tanks arrived – but finally got in touch from his adopted home in Switzerland.