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Tag Archives: Czech
How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions AKA Jak básníci pricházejí o iluze (1985) Dusan Klein, Pavel Kríz, David Matásek, Míla Myslíková
How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions is a 1985 Czech comedy, the second in a series of films about a young, ideological poet Read More »
Kytice AKA Wild Flowers (2000) F.A. Brabec, Martina Bezousková, Sylvie Kraslová, Sára Vorísková
Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales – glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light – make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. Read More »
Chodník cez Dunaj AKA A Path Across the Danube (1989) Miloslav Luther, Roman Luknár, Vladimír Hajdu, Georgiana Tarjan
In WWII, Czechoslovakia split into the Slovak State and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Read More »
…and the Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965) Zbynek Brynych, Miroslav Machácek, Olga Scheinpflugová, Zdenka Procházková
Dr. Braun is forbidden to practice medicine because he’s a Jew living in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. Read More »
The White Lady (1965) Zdenek Podskalský, Vlastimil Brodský, Rudolf Hrusínský, Milos Kopecký
This castle has its own ghost – a mysterious White lady. Read More »
Diamonds of the Night (1964) Jan Nemec, Ladislav Jánsky, Antonín Kumbera, Ilse Bischofova
Diamonds in the night is the tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Read More »
Larks on a String (1990) Jirí Menzel, Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár
Prague in the early 1950’s. Bourgeois elements are being re-educated by working in a scrapyard full of the detritus of industrial society. Read More »
Tobruk (2008) Václav Marhoul, Jan Meduna, Petr Vanek, Robert Nebrenský
It is the story of Jiri and Jan, two Czech soldiers, battling alongside the allied forces against the Germans Read More »
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1960) Jirí Weiss, Ivan Mistrík, Daniela Smutná, Jirina Sejbalová
Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building’s attic. Read More »
Slumming (2006) Michael Glawogger, Paulus Manker, August Diehl, Michael Ostrowski
Rich slacker Sebastian has little respect for others, especially not women. Read More »
And Give My Love to the Swallows (1972) Jaromil Jires, Magda Vásáryová, Viera Strnisková, Július Vasek
Towards the end of 1942 a young prisoner Maruska (Magda Vásáryová) awaits in her cell in prison Read More »
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1983) Vera Chytilová, Leos Sucharípa, Libuse Pospísilová, Vlasta Spicnerová
The strains of Debussy’s “Afternoon of a Faun” waft through this amusing comedy about an aging lecher’s ever-optimistic pursuit of the fair sex, for fair sex, or better. Read More »
The Straw Hat (1972) Oldrich Lipský, Milos Kopecký, Iva Janzurová, Vladimír Mensík
Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse picks up and eats a straw hat. Read More »
Bony a klid (1988) Vít Olmer, Jan Potmesil, Veronika Jeníková, Josef Nedorost
Martin becomes involved with a black market gang when he attempts to find the people who supplied him with fake money. Read More »