Direction: Jirí Weiss

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Jirí Weiss. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Golden Fern

1963 · Movie · 115 min. · Czechoslovakia

7.1

54 votes

7.1

54 votes

Romeo, Juliet and Darkness

1960 · Movie · 92 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Jirí Weiss

Cast Ivan Mistrík · Daniela Smutná · Jirina Sejbalová · Frantisek Smolík

Plot Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building's attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German army, love blossoms between the...

7.1

215 votes

7.1

215 votes

Martha and I

1991 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Jirí Weiss

Cast Marianne Sägebrecht · Michel Piccoli · Václav Chalupa · Ondrej Vetchý

Plot Prague, 1934. The family of fourteen-year-old Emil Kluge is horrified when one day Emil's uncle, his mother's brother, Ernst, appears on the doorstep with his new bride. For Martha, the...

6.1

43 votes

6.1

43 votes

The Stolen Border

1947 · Movie · 81 min. · Czechoslovakia

Not rated

Not rated

Murder Czech Style

1968 · Movie · 90 min. · Czechoslovakia

Not rated

Not rated

New Fighters Shall Arise

1951 · Movie · 104 min. · Czechoslovakia

Not rated

Not rated

The Coward

1962 · Movie · 98 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Jirí Weiss

Cast Daniela Smutná · Ladislav Chudík · Oleg Strizhenov · Wilhelm Koch-Hooge

Plot In this moral study of heroism set in a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian...

Not rated

Not rated

The Wolf Trap

1958 · Movie · 90 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Jirí Weiss

Cast Jirina Sejbalová · Jana Brejchová · Miroslav Dolezal · Libuse Freslová

Plot The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial politician (Miroslav Dolozai) who enters into a...

Not rated

Not rated

Spravedlnost pro Selvina (TV)

1968 · Movie · 70 min. · Czechoslovakia

Not rated

Not rated

90 Degrees in the Shade

1965 · Movie · 90 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Jirí Weiss

Cast James Booth · Anne Heywood · Rudolf Hrusínsky · Ann Todd

Plot In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic problems of his own uncovers serious stock...

Not rated

Not rated