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Tag Archives: Czechoslovakia
Such Is Life / Takový je zivot (1930) Carl Junghans, Vera Baranovskaya, Theodor Pistek, Mána Zenísková
Realistic portrait of a poor working family in late 20s Prague: the washerwoman mother whose burial Read More »
Witches’ Hammer / Kladivo na carodejnice (1970) Otakar Vávra, Vladimír Smeral, Elo Romancik, Josef Kemr
The time is the seventeenth century. The beggar Maryna Schuchová hides the Host in her scarf at the Communion. Read More »
Time of the Servants / Cas sluhu (1989) Irena Pavlásková, Ivana Chýlková, Karel Roden, Jitka Asterová
Dana is young medical student with no self esteem, she can’t deal with life Read More »
Concert at the End of Summer / Koncert na konci léta (1980) Frantisek Vlácil, Josef Vinklár, Zlata Adamovská, Ladislav Bambas
Composer Antonín Dvorák (Josef Vinklár) conducts a rehearsal in the Royal Albert Hall in London Read More »
Vertigo / Závrat (1963) Karel Kachyna, Eva Solcová, Petr Skála, Oldrich Velen
Geologists looking for tin stay at a country hotel. The manager’s daughter experiences her first love. Read More »
Snake Poison / Hadí jed (1981) Frantisek Vlácil, Josef Vinklár, Karel Brozek, Renáta Dolezelová
Her mother dead, 18-year-old Vladka travels to a remote village in the dead of winter Read More »
The Junk Shop / Sberné surovosti (1965) Juraj Herz, Václav Halama, Frantisek Ketzek, M. Cirmonová
Juraj Herz adapts Bohumil Hrabal’s story about a man who works in a junk shop. Read More »
A Midsummer Night’s Dream / Sen noci svatojánské (1959) Jirí Trnka, Joss Ackland, Ann Bell, Richard Burton
The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Read More »
Freckled Max and the Spooks / Pehavý Max a strasidlá (1987) Juraj Jakubisko, Martin Hreben, Gerhard Karzel, Eddie Constantine
Young orphan Max leaves the circus to escape his abusive fosters. Read More »