czech new wave

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

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost ...

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

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

Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she’s found it when she beds Milda, a ...

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 ...

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most ...

Kopfrkingl enjoys his job at a crematorium in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. He likes reading the Tibetan book of the dead, and espouses the ...

Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to ...

Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of ...

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the ...

In Milos Forman’s satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, ...