Literary critic and scholar Jan Mukařovský talks at an evening event organised by the Czechoslovak Committee of the Defenders of Peace and held at the Rudolfinum in Prague to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Leonardo da Vinci in a fragmented segment from Československé filmové noviny (Czechoslovak Film News) 1952, issue no. 26. Mukařovský presents the Peace Award to the makers of the Soviet-German documentary film Přátelství zvítězí (Friendship Will Overcome, 1951) in a fragmented segment from Československé filmové noviny (Czechoslovak Film News) 1952, issue no. 33. Mukařovský opens a ceremonial session to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Victor Hugo held at the Rudolfinum on 21 February in a fragmented segment from Československé filmové noviny (Czechoslovak Film News) 1952, issue no. 9.