Jiří Menzel

Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to ...

Two stories are simultaneously told. One dutiful mother progressively becomes a frustrated woman who is the only one assuming the family ...

Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect “bourgeois elements”, a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, ...

A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the ...

Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal ...

This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It’s a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and ...

Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte (Rudolf Hrusínský), an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his ...

Crime in the café-concert is both a comedy and a detective anti-totalitarian allegory set in a Prague’s old cabaret. The star is a local ...

Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left ...

Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene ...

Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no ...

The childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal living in his provincial hometown of Nymburk. Release: our dear mister foerster died 1962 720p bluray ...

In a small town still occupied by the Germans as World War II’s tide is turning toward the Allies, apprentice train-watcher Milos is ...

The movie’s main storyline follows the life of Otík, a mentally retarded young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered ...

A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings, symbolizing ...

The Lavicka’s, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant ...

Jan Dítě has been released from a Czech prison just before the very end of his 15-year sentence. Settling in a town near the border, he occupies ...