A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and Read More »
Tag Archives: Czechoslovakia
Funeral Ceremony / Smutecni slavnost (1969) Zdenek Sirový, Jaroslava Tichá, Josef Somr, Jana Vychodilová
Matylda, widow of Jan Chladil, decides to bury her husband in the village Read More »
Desire / Touha (1958) Vojtech Jasný, Jan Jakes, Václav Babka, Jana Brejchová
Four stories, four seasons of the year, four periods from the human life. Read More »
Closely Watched Trains / Ostre sledované vlaky (1966) Jirí Menzel, Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský
An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter Read More »
Capricious Summer / Rozmarné léto (1968) Jirí Menzel, Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Frantisek Rehák
The friends enjoy the charms of nature – and of their guests. Read More »
Killing the Devil / Vrazda ing. Certa (1970) Ester Krumbachová, Jirina Bohdalová, Vladimír Mensík, Ljuba Hermanová
She (Jirina Bohdalová) is approximately forty-years old, intelligent Read More »
From Saturday to Sunday / Ze soboty na nedeli (1931) Gustav Machatý, Ladislav H. Struna, Magda Maderova, Jirina Sejbalová
Mána is a young secretary. One evening she and her roommate Read More »
Ski Fever (1966) Curt Siodmak, Claudia Martin, Martin Milner, Toni Sailer
An American student at an Austrian resort disapproves of the games Read More »
Jan Hus (1954) Otakar Vávra, Zdenek Stepánek, Karel Höger, Vlasta Matulová
1412 – 1415: Master Jan Hus in his sermons in the Bethlehem Chapel denounces plague the church organization. Read More »
The Emperor’s Nightingale / Cisaruv slavík (1949) Jirí Trnka, Milos Makovec, Helena Patockova, Jaromir Sobotoa
A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. Read More »