Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales – glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light – make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. Read More »
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Chodník cez Dunaj AKA A Path Across the Danube (1989) Miloslav Luther, Roman Luknár, Vladimír Hajdu, Georgiana Tarjan
In WWII, Czechoslovakia split into the Slovak State and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Read More »
…and the Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965) Zbynek Brynych, Miroslav Machácek, Olga Scheinpflugová, Zdenka Procházková
Dr. Braun is forbidden to practice medicine because he’s a Jew living in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. Read More »
How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1975) Václav Vorlícek, Jaromír Hanzlík, Libuse Safránková, Frantisek Filipovský
There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife’s family as a servants. Read More »
Like Never Before (2013) Zdenek Tyc, Jirí Schmitzer, Petra Spalková, Tatjana Medvecká
The end of summer in Like Never Before also means the end of a life. Read More »
Transport From Paradise (1963) Zbynek Brynych, Zdenek Stepánek, Ilja Prachar, Jirí Vrstála
Transport from Paradise is set in an unusual World War II concentration camp. Read More »
The White Lady (1965) Zdenek Podskalský, Vlastimil Brodský, Rudolf Hrusínský, Milos Kopecký
This castle has its own ghost – a mysterious White lady. Read More »
Diamonds of the Night (1964) Jan Nemec, Ladislav Jánsky, Antonín Kumbera, Ilse Bischofova
Diamonds in the night is the tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Read More »
Smart Philip (2003) Václav Marhoul, Tomás Hanák, Vilma Cibulková, Pavel Liska
Inspired by the stories of the American writer Raymond Chandler, the classical hero is private detective Phil Marlowe Read More »
Larks on a String (1990) Jirí Menzel, Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár
Prague in the early 1950’s. Bourgeois elements are being re-educated by working in a scrapyard full of the detritus of industrial society. Read More »
Tobruk (2008) Václav Marhoul, Jan Meduna, Petr Vanek, Robert Nebrenský
It is the story of Jiri and Jan, two Czech soldiers, battling alongside the allied forces against the Germans Read More »
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1960) Jirí Weiss, Ivan Mistrík, Daniela Smutná, Jirina Sejbalová
Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building’s attic. Read More »
Catacombs (1940) Martin Fric, Vlasta Burian, Jaroslav Marvan, Cenek Slégl
An older clerk Mr. Borman works in basement offices of the Land Registry which are cakke Catacombs by employees. Read More »
Slumming (2006) Michael Glawogger, Paulus Manker, August Diehl, Michael Ostrowski
Rich slacker Sebastian has little respect for others, especially not women. Read More »
And Give My Love to the Swallows (1972) Jaromil Jires, Magda Vásáryová, Viera Strnisková, Július Vasek
Towards the end of 1942 a young prisoner Maruska (Magda Vásáryová) awaits in her cell in prison Read More »