Cinematography: Jan Curík

Direction Frantisek Vlácil

Cast Katerina Irmanovová · Anna Pitasová · Karel Smyczek · Vjaceslav Irmanov

Direction Vera Chytilová

Cast Vladimir Bosak · Eva Bosáková · Jirí Kodet · Josef Langmiler

Direction Jaromil Jires

Cast Jaroslava Schallerová · Helena Anýzová · Petr Kopriva · Jirí Prymek

Plot Inspired by fairy-tales such as Alice in Wonderland and Little Red-Riding Hood, "Valerie and her Week of Wonders" is a surreal tale in which love, fear, sex and religion merge...

Direction Pavel Jurácek · Jan Schmidt

Cast Pavel Bartl · Pavel Silhánek · Stanislav Michler · Consuela Morávková

Direction Jaromil Jires

Cast Josef Somr · Jana Dítetová · Ludek Munzar · Evald Schorm

Plot In the 1950's, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen...

Direction Evald Schorm

Cast Jana Brejchová · Jan Kacer · Jirina Jirásková · Vlastimil Brodsky

Direction Veljko Bulajic

Cast Christopher Plummer · Florinda Bolkan · Maximilian Schell · Irfan Mensur

Direction Jaroslav Balík

Cast Marta Vancurová · Viktor Preiss · Libuse Svormová · Petr Svojtka

Plot It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. One of them, law student Pavel (Viktor Preiss),...

Direction Karel Kachyna

Cast Jirí Bartoska · Michal Hofbauer · Monika Hálová · Dita Kaplanová

Plot It’s a hot holiday season in the city and Alena is pretty much left to her own little self, fantasizing and running her personal daily rituals, keeping most people at...

Direction Jaromil Jires

Cast Magda Vásáryová · Viera Strnisková · Július Vasek · Hana Pastejríková

Plot This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she was tortured and eventually executed by the...

Direction Zbynek Brynych

Cast Hanus Bor · Jana Brejchová · Eduard Cupák · Jan Curík

Direction Zbynek Brynych

Cast Zdenek Stepánek · Ilja Prachar · Jirí Vrstála · Cestmír Randa

Plot Teresienstadt is an unusual concentration camp. Conceived as a model camp to be showcased, the inhabitants are forced to participate in a charade to convince an imminent Red Cross delegation...

Direction Karel Kachyna

Cast Vladimir Mensik · Miroslava Hozová · Rudolf Hrusínsky · Martin Mikulas

Plot A father takes his family to the country to escape the coming horrors of the war. The youngest of his three children, Prdelka, becomes friends with a local fisherman.

Direction Zdenek Sirovy

Cast Karel Engel · Frantisek Hanzlík · Jaromír Hanzlík · Adolf Kohut

Plot Twenty-year old Tonda (Karel Meister) and seventeen-year old Honza (Jaromír Hanzlík) follow a man and girl leaving a café and then spy on them and with bated breath watch their...

Direction Ivo Toman

Cast Otomar Krejca · Bedrich Prokos · Zdenek Díte · Martin Ruzek

Plot The film is depicting Czechoslovak tank brigade fighting along with the Red Army in the WW II. During the War Czechoslovak armored brigade was formed and trained in the Soviet...

Direction Karel Kachyna

Cast Jana Svandová · Michal Dlouhý · Marek Mikulás · Lubomír Kostelka

Plot In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana Svandová) and her...

Direction Karel Kachyna

Cast Vladimir Mensik · Lukás Vaculík · Michal Dlouhý · Jan Hrusínský

Plot Colourful picture of working-class Prague in the thirties focuses on the vain struggle of a small trader against shoe factory. From a stylistic point of view, this film is out...

Direction Evald Schorm

Cast Andrea Cunderlíková · Jana Krupicková · Lucie Zulová · Dana Matejkova

Plot The father of fourteen-year old Natasa is the chairman of the housing department at the Municipal National Committee. His position is probably the cause of the high living standard of...

Direction Frantisek Vlácil

Cast Václav Voska

Plot About meteorologists working on Lomnický stít. The film shows contrast between a man and mountains.

Direction Gerhard Klein

Cast Hannjo Hasse · Christoph Beyertt · Wolfgang Kalweit · Georg Leopold

Plot Relates the facts of the so-called "Gleiwitz provocation" on the night of August 31, 1939, the false flag operation directed by Alfred Naujocks under the command of Reinhard Heydrich, after...