The Lavicka’s, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. Read More »
Tag Archives: Czechoslovakia
The Little Mermaid AKA Malá morská víla (1976) Karel Kachyna, Miroslava Safránková, Radovan Lukavský, Petr Svojtka
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. Read More »
Fantastic Planet AKA La planète sauvage (1973) René Laloux, Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin
Slaves and masters dominate the narrative of the faraway world of Ygam. Read More »
Black Peter AKA Cerný Petr (1964) Milos Forman, Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martinkova, Jan Vostrcil
Petr is 17 years old and starts work. Incredibly (for Czechoslovakia in 1963) this is as a security worker against shoplifting in a busy self-service shop. Read More »
Wolf’s Hole AKA Vlci bouda (1987) Vera Chytilová, Miroslav Machácek, Tomás Palatý, Stepánka Cervenková
A group of teenagers are mysteriously invited to a skiing workshop in the mountains. Read More »
The Shop on Main Street AKA Obchod na korze (1965) Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos, Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Hana Slivková
Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Read More »
The Strike AKA Siréna (1947) Karel Steklý, Josef Bek, L. Bohác, Josef Dekoj
The first Czechoslovak film to receive the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, The Strike is a cornerstone example of political agitprop. Read More »
Birds, Orphans and Fools AKA Vtáckovia, siroty a blázni (1969) Juraj Jakubisko, Philippe Avron, Jirí Sýkora, Magda Vásáryová
Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko is often described as the Fellini of Eastern Europe. After the 1968 film The Deserter and the Nomads Read More »
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 »
Eden and After AKA L’éden et après (1970) Alain Robbe-Grillet, Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc
A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Read More »
Keby som mal pusku AKA If I Had a Gun (1971) Stefan Uher, Marián Bernát, Jozef Gráf, Emília Doseková
Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. 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 »
The Sun in a Net (1962) Stefan Uher, Marián Bielik, Jana Beláková, Olga Salagová
Oldrich “Fajolo” Fajták (Marián Bielik), a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová (Jana Beláková) Read More »