Tag Archives: Czechoslovakia

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 »

Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building’s attic. Read More »

An older clerk Mr. Borman works in basement offices of the Land Registry which are cakke Catacombs by employees. Read More »

Towards the end of 1942 a young prisoner Maruska (Magda Vásáryová) awaits in her cell in prison Read More »

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 »

Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse picks up and eats a straw hat. Read More »

Portrait of customs and vicissitudes of the Ruthenian and subcarpáticos Jews in the 30s of last century. Read More »

A comedy about five students who are unjustly suspected of trying to lose their virginity before their graduation. Read More »

A robbery in a Prague jeweler’s shop results in the shop manager Kubát and his deputy Litera being shot and wounded. Read More »

Martin becomes involved with a black market gang when he attempts to find the people who supplied him with fake money. Read More »

Drama set on an isolated farm on the Czech-Polish border immediately after the end of WWII. Read More »

Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana Read More »

One day of autumn 1950, during the forced collectivization, the farmers lead their cattle into the common stables of the new cooperative. Read More »

She (Jirina Bohdalová) is approximately forty-years old, intelligent and attractive, but, unfortunately, lonesome as one could be. Read More »

Juraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in hus life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. Read More »