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Tag Archives: Czech
Panna a netvor / Beauty and the Beast (1978) Juraj Herz, Zdena Studenková, Vlastimil Harapes, Václav Voska, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
A more horrific and gloomy version of The Beauty and the Beast. Read More »
Ikarie XB 1 (1963) Jindrich Polák, Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Smolík, Dana Medrická, Sci-Fi
Lelícek ve sluzbách Sherlocka Holmese / Lelicek in the Services of Sherlock Holmes (1932) Carl Lamac, Vlasta Burian, Martin Fric, Lída Baarová, Comedy
Ferdinand XXIII., the king of Portorico, is exaggeratedly scared of anarchists. Thus he hires a famous detective Sherlock Holmes to find him a double. Read More »
Teticka / Auntie’s Fantasies (1941) Martin Fric, Rùzena Nasková, Ferenc Futurista, Frantisek Smolík, Comedy
Rich spinster Berta celebrates her sixtieth birthday. Her faithful admirer Dr. Jelinek proposes. But Berta can not forget Edward, the great love of her life, and refuses the offer…
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Zítra vstanu a oparím se cajem / Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977) Jindrich Polák, Petr Kostka, Jirí Sovák, Vladimír Mensík, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-aging pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Read More »
Slunce, seno, jahody / Sun, Hay, Strawberries (1984) Zdenek Troska, Pavel Kikincuk, Bronek Cerny, Veronika Kánská, Comedy
A Czech agricultural student, Šimon Pláni?ka, arrives at the small South Bohemian town of Hoštice, and joins the local JZD (agricultural co-op) with the intention of trying out his experiment regarding the “Milk yield of cows in regards to a cultured environment”. 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 »
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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Podobizna (1948) Jirí Slavícek, Otomar Krejca, Ljuba Skorepová, Vladimír Smeral, Drama, Horror
People are afraid of the usurer Chazaj and are convinced that he is the bearer of evil. One day Chazaj pays a visit to the poor artist Simon Jordán and asks him to paint his portrait. Simon agrees but as he progresses with the work his mind conjures up terrible thoughts and in the end he commits suicide.
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