只为一个奇迹

        三年前，一个谜名叫Lada的捷克旅行者无意之间发现了一只有点脏兮兮的行李箱，里边是22卷胶卷。出于好奇，她将它们带回布拉格，并且全部冲洗了出来——756张照片纪录了6位陌生的亚洲人的，时间是2001年5月到7月，大多数照片是在德国和挪威拍摄的。Lada和她布拉格表演艺术学院的六位朋友开始了漫长的“寻找‘遗失的假期’”之旅。

他们问遍了捷克的亚洲事务研究专家、来自亚洲的游客，花了一年时间才确定了照片上6个人的国籍是中国人。

他们花了三年时间寻找着6位中国游客的足迹，行程达5000多公里，他们又辗转来到香港，确定这六位游客来自中国北方的城市……线索只有这些照片而已……

他们又建立了自己的网站，希望更多的人能够提供线索，有些人认为他们疯了，这简直是大海捞针，无论如何，让我们也祝福这些可爱的捷克年轻人一臂之力吧！To do all we can do

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Czechs find Chinese subjects of 'lost holiday' snaps

      Searching for six Chinese people who could be anywhere on Earth might be far worse than looking for a needle in a haystack, especially the only clues the seekers have are photographs. But that is exactly what some Czechs have tried to do and they succeeded.

　　Three years ago, a Czech traveller named Lada Jelinek found a dirty suitcase by chance in a waste container in Sweden's Goteborg. Inside was a plastic bag full of film rolls.

　　Jelinek took all 22 rolls back to Prague and had them developed. The result was fascinating: 756 photos of six unknown Asian tourists dated from May to July of 2001. Many of the photos were taken in Germany and Norway.

　　Jelinek's friend Lucie Kralova and another six Czechs, most of whom were students of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, decided to find the unknown Asians and give the photos back to them.

　　They asked experts on Asia, Asian tourists in Prague and Chinese living in the city. They had positively identified the photographed people as Chinese according to their physiognomy and attire.

　　The Czech team spent three years and covered a route of more than 5,000 kilometres to follow the traces of the six Chinese. They recorded the whole procedure to make a documentary film about the journey to find the photographs' subjects.

　　The team successfully tracked down a German couple that were in the pictures and a cook at a Norwegian town. They all still remembered the six Chinese, but could not provide any more useful information.

　　"We have visited several tourist destinations where the pictures were taken. However, the majority of the 756 recovered images were taken in remote corners of Norway spots well hidden in nature that were hard to identify. We have managed to locate these places," said the project staff on its website www.lostholiday.com.

　　In May 2005, they also organized an exhibition of the recovered pictures in Prague, thanks to which they managed to identify certain spots where the Chinese took pictures.

　　The film was broadcast on China Central Television (CCTV) over the weekend. The six Chinese in the spotlight, all government officials from North China's Hebei Province, contacted CCTV by phone shortly afterwards. But they have not contacted the Czechs behind the effort.

　　"It is really incredible, it is like a miracle," said Kralova, director and co-author of "Lost Holiday."

　　"The most important scene in the film should be our meeting with the six Chinese to give them their photos back, to explain to them the story and to ask them many questions They are our friends now All the team have dreamed about them, we have practically lived with them for almost three years," she said.