A hillbilly inherits millions and goes to the city, leaving his village to live a rich man’s life in post communist Czech Republic. Read More »
Tag Archives: Czech Republic
Jan Saudek – Trapped By His Passions No Hope For Rescue (2007) Adolf Zika, Jan Saudek, Sára Saudková
Jan Saudek, Czechoslovakia’s most famous living photographer, is the subject of this often-shocking kaleidoscopic biopic by friend and colleague Adolf Zika. Read More »
Film Adventurer Karel Zeman (2015) Tomas Hodan, Tim Burton, Tony Dalton, Kamil Fila
A biographical film looking back at the life, work and significance of the genius of world cinema. Read More »
Nowhere in Moravia (2014) Miroslav Krobot, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Lenka Krobotová, Johana Tesarová
When she’s not serving regulars in a pub in a sleepy northern Moravian village, thirtysomething Maruna spends time with indecisive mayor Jura Read More »
In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2001) Martina Kudlácek, Miriam Arsham, Stan Brakhage, Chao Li Chi, Documentary, Biography
Using footage from filmmaker Maya Deren’s avant-garde films of the 1940s Read More »
Hidden Assassin (1995) Ted Kotcheff, Dolph Lundgren, Maruschka Detmers, Assumpta Serna, Action, Drama, Crime
The Ambassador of Cuba was Murdered in New Yorkin June. To protect against another attack of the terrorists in the US-Cuba-summit at Prague that the CIA sends one of their greatest national brokers, Michael Dane (Dolph Lundgren). Read More »
Tmavomodrý svet / Dark Blue World (2001) Jan Sverák, Ondrej Vetchý, Krystof Hádek, Tara Fitzgerald, War, Drama, Action
March 15, 1939: Germany invades Czechoslovakia. Czech and Slovak pilots flee to England, joining the RAF. Read More »
Flammen & Citronen / Flame And Citron (2008) Ole Christian Madsen, Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Drama, History, Thriller
During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid (“Flame”) and Jørgen Haagen Schmith (“Citron”), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who’s in direct contact with Allied leaders. Read More »
Probudím se vcera / I Wake Up Yesterday (2012) Milos Smídmajer, Jirí Mádl, Filip Blazek, Eva Josefíková, Comedy, Sci-Fi
This quirky student comedy tells the story of Petr Kovár (Filip Blazek), who gets the chance to return to the past for a while and he meets the love of his life, his classmate Eliska, again in June 1989. There is one hook: physically he is seventeen again (played by Jirí Mádl), but his mind remains that of a modern “forty-something”.
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Prague Duet / Lies and Whispers (1998) Roger L. Simon, Gina Gershon, Rade Serbedzija, Patricia Hodge, Drama, Romance
Dr. Lauren is staying in Prague for a conference and falls in love with Czech writer Jiri Kolmar. However, she learns some awful secrets about Jiri’s family during the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps.
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