Cinematography: Jaromír Sofr

Direction Karel Kachyna

Cast Frank Argus · Josef Barta · Gustáv Valach · Eduard Bredun

Direction Jiří Menzel

Cast Václav Neckár · Josef Somr · Vlastimil Brodsky · Vladimír Valenta

Synopsis At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and...

Direction Jiří Menzel

Cast János Bán · Marián Labuda · Rudolf Hrusínsky · Petr Cepek

Synopsis Comedy about the people who inhabit a small town. For years the overbearing Pavek has endured Otik, the "town idiot," sharing his meals and the front seat of their dump truck. But Otik is such a sweet-natured fool that Pavek,...

Direction Jiří Menzel

Cast Josef Kemr · Szedenk Sverák · Daniela Kolárová · Marta Hradílková

Synopsis In this film, a couple, after seeing the lovely job a friend of theirs has done in converting an old mill house into a cozy mansion, moves into an old farmhouse after persuading the current owner, an old man, to...

Direction Jan Nemec

Cast Ivan Vyskocil · Jan Klusák · Jiri Nemec · Pavel Bosek

Synopsis A group of happy picnickers are accosted by a group of strangers led by a bullying sadist who has an unbreakable hold over his followers. After he interrogates one of them, a stranger then invites everyone to a nonsensical, but...

Direction Jiří Menzel

Cast Magda Vásáryová · Jirí Schmitzer · Jaromír Hanzlík · Petr Cepek

Synopsis The setting is a small town where Hrabal¡'s father Francine (Jiri Schmitzer) is in charge of a large brewery. Both the blessing and bane of his life is his gorgeous wife Marja (Magda Vasaryova). Blessing, because she is not only...

Direction Jiří Menzel

Cast Václav Neckár · Jitka Zelenohorská · Rudolf Hrusínsky · Jaroslav Satoransky

Synopsis Prague in the early 1950's. Bourgeois elements are being re-educated by working in a scrapyard full of the detritus of industrial society. The volunteer workers comprise a professor of literature, a public prosecutor, a dairyman, a saxophonist, a barber, and...

Direction Jiří Menzel

Cast Ivan Barnev · Oldrich Kaiser · Julia Jentsch · Martin Huba

Synopsis Jan Dítì (Ivan Barnev) is short in height, but high in ambition. To put it bluntly, the young provincial waiter wants to become a millionaire. And he knows just how to do it: by hearing everything, seeing everything, and creating...

Direction Jiří Menzel

Cast Josef Abrhám · Marián Labuda · Jaromír Hanzlík · Rudolf Hrusínsky

Synopsis Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of Kratochvile castle. Although with no aristocratic background, he is a man of fortune and is trying to buy the castle. To impress on his neighbours and the...

Direction Jiří Menzel

Cast Rudolf Hrusínsky · Vladimir Mensik · Jiří Menzel · Vlasta Fabianová

Direction Jiří Menzel

Cast Rudolf Hrusínsky · Vlastimil Brodsky · Frantisek Rehák · Míla Myslíková

Synopsis Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his...

Direction Vera Chytilová

Cast Lukás Bech · Antonín Vanha · Eva Kacírková · Oldrich Navrátil

Direction Jiří Menzel

Cast Gennadi Nazarov · Zoya Buryak · Vladimir Ilyin · Valeri Zolotukhin

Synopsis Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this...

Direction Vera Chytilová

Cast Miroslav Machácek · Tomás Palatý · Stepánka Cervenková · Jan Bidlas

Synopsis Ten teens from different schools find themselves chosen to take part in a special skiing workshop in the mountains. On the day of the seminar, 11 young people, each bearing an invitation, arrive. A massive avalanche occurs and the ski-lodge...

Direction Gianluigi Calderone

Cast Antonio Banderas · Toni Bertorelli · Valentina Lainati · Ivano Marescotti

Synopsis The story starts at the point in Benito Mussolini's life when, at the age of nineteen, he gave up being a schoolmaster, left his home town of Forli and, as a guest worker on a building-site in Lausanne, Switzerland, underwent...

Direction Jiří Menzel

Cast Josef Abrhám · Marián Labuda · Rudolf Hrusínsky · Nina Divísková

Direction Jiří Menzel

Direction Radúz Cincera · Ján Rohác · Vladimír Svitácek

Cast Karla Chadimová · Leopolda Dostalová · Miroslav Hornícek · Vlasta Jelínková

Synopsis This Czech comedy was arguably the first theatrical interactive movie ever created. The audience could vote what should happen next by pressing buttons of different color. As intentional irony, there's only one ending.

Direction Otakar Vávra

Cast Ladislav Chudík · Jana Brezinová · Marta Vancurová · Zuzana Cigánová

Synopsis The dramatic story of Jan Amos Comenius, a 17th century Christian hero and a testimony of the persistence of Christian courage.

Direction Vera Chytilová

Cast Marta Kanovská · Julián Chytil · Josef Abrhám · Dagmar Cejnkova