Soundtrack: Zdenek Liska

Direction Ján Kadár · Elmar Klos

Cast Josef Kroner · Frantisek Zvarik · Ida Kaminska · Hana Slivkova

Plot Tono Briko (Josef Kroner) is a slothful Czechslovakian carpenter. The time is World War II, and the occupying Nazis are nationalizing all Jewish-owned businesses. To please his ambitious family, Tono...

Direction Frantisek Vlácil

Cast Josef Kemr · Magda Vásáryová · Nada Hejna · Jaroslav Moucka

Plot A minor Czech clan falls afoul of the King in medieval times, against the backdrop of Christianity replacing Paganism.

Direction Frantisek Vlácil

Cast Petr Cepek · Jan Kacer · Vera Galatíková · Zdenek Kryzánek

Plot Ondrej, a young boy who loves bees and bats, is introduced to his new mother, a woman much younger than his father. He brings her a basketful of flowers which...

Direction Juraj Herz

Cast Vlasta Chramostová · Rudolf Hrusínsky · Jiří Menzel · Ilja Prachar

Plot Karl works at a crematorium in Prague. Obsessed with his duties, he believes he is not just cremating the dead, but liberating the souls of the departed. With Nazi forces...

Direction Frantisek Vlácil

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

Direction Frantisek Vlácil

Cast Miroslav Machácek · Vítezslav Vejrazka · Vít Olmer · Cestmír Randa

Plot The story takes place in the early 18th century when a priest arrives in a small town to investigate the rumors that a miller's family, who survived a house burning,...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Ivan Kraus · Juraj Herz

Plot A nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.

Direction Karel Zeman

Cast Milos Kopecký · Rudolf Jelinek · Jana Brejchová · Karel Höger

Plot The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself.

Direction Frantisek Vlácil

Cast Petr Cepek · Emma Cerná · Jan Vostrcil · Jana Krupicková

Plot In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who...

Direction Lubomir Benes

Plot Puppet variation on the themes of the classic tale of King Midas.

Direction Karel Zeman

Cast Lubor Tokos · Arnost Navrátil · Miroslav Holub · Frantisek Slégr

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Jirí Hálek · Ludek Kopriva · Míla Myslíková · Václav Borovicka

Plot Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank is more interested in the slightly unsettling fact that Josef and Mary's garden...

Direction Juraj Jakubisko

Cast Philippe Avron · Jirí Sýkora · Magda Vásáryová · Míla Beran

Plot The story is about three orphans who have lost their families in war. Although the two men Andrej and Yurick and the lady Marta are adults, they act foolish like...

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Plot In stop-time animation, a wardrobe moves through the countryside. It arrives in a house, a child's voice recites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," and various objects, such as toys and dolls, move...

Direction Karel Kachyna

Cast Miroslava Safránková · Radovan Lukavský · Petr Svojtka · Libuse Safránková

Plot The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against...

Direction Jindrich Polák

Cast Zdenek Stepánek · Frantisek Smolík · Dana Medrická · Irena Kacírková

Direction Karel Zeman

Direction Frantisek Vlácil

Cast Juraj Kukura · Marta Vancurová · Gustáv Valach · Václav Babka

Direction Karel Kachyna

Cast Vladimír Dlouhy · Zdena Hadrbolcová · Lubos Vraspir · Borivoj Navrátil

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay · Keith Griffiths

Plot In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys...