Flower Buds tells the story of the gradual breakdown of a family living in a small town. Read More »
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Seven Days of Sin (2012) 7 dni hrichu
This story actually happened in the region around the city of Sumperk in Jeseniky Mountains in May 1945. Read More »
Stín kapradiny / The Shadow of the Ferns (1984) Frantisek Vlácil, Marek Probosz, Zbigniew Suszynski, Miroslav Machácek
Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most Read More »
Those Wonderful Men with a Crank / Bájecní muzi s klikou (1979) Jirí Menzel, Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlasta Fabiánová, Blazena Holisová
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte (Rudolf Hrusínský), an owner of a circus caravan Read More »
The River / Reka (1933) Josef Rovenský, Jarmila Beránková, Vasa Jalovec, Jaroslav Vojta
Poetic folk tale, set in the beautiful Czech countryside, of two 14-year-olds who fall in love. Read More »
The Country Teacher / Venkovský ucitel (2008) Bohdan Sláma, Pavel Liska, Zuzana Bydzovská, Ladislav Sedivý
Petr, youthful, quiet, and sensitive, comes from Prague to teach natural science in a country town. Read More »
Before the Finals / Pred maturitou (1932) Svatopluk Innemann, Vladislav Vancura, Jindrich Plachta, Frantisek Smolík, Antonín Novotný
Two high school boys, both taken with a girl in another school, are expelled Read More »
At Home in Kocourkov / U nás v Kocourkove (1934) Miroslav Cikán, Jan Werich, Jindrich Plachta, Václav Trégl
At Kocourkov railway station, an escaped fraudster Ferdinand Kaplan arrives and is welcomed Read More »
Faithless Marijka / Marijka nevernice (1934) Vladislav Vancura, Hana Maria Pravda
Portrait of customs and vicissitudes of the Ruthenian and subcarpáticos Jews in the 30s of last century. Read More »
The Apple Game / Hra o jablko (1977) Vera Chytilová, Dagmar Bláhová, Jirí Menzel, Jirí Kodet
Doctor John, who works in a Prague maternity hospital while still living at home with his mother Read More »