Tag Archives: Czechoslovakia

The first Czechoslovak film to receive the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, The Strike is a cornerstone example of political agitprop. Read More »

Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko is often described as the Fellini of Eastern Europe. After the 1968 film The Deserter and the Nomads Read More »

How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions is a 1985 Czech comedy, the second in a series of films about a young, ideological poet Read More »

Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. Read More »

In WWII, Czechoslovakia split into the Slovak State and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Read More »

Dr. Braun is forbidden to practice medicine because he’s a Jew living in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. Read More »

This castle has its own ghost – a mysterious White lady. Read More »

Oldrich “Fajolo” Fajták (Marián Bielik), a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová (Jana Beláková) Read More »

Diamonds in the night is the tense, brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Read More »

Prague in the early 1950’s. Bourgeois elements are being re-educated by working in a scrapyard full of the detritus of industrial society. Read More »