Tag Archives: Czechoslovakia

Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte (Rudolf Hrusínský), an owner of a circus caravan Read More »

Poetic folk tale, set in the beautiful Czech countryside, of two 14-year-olds who fall in love. Read More »

Two high school boys, both taken with a girl in another school, are expelled Read More »

At Kocourkov railway station, an escaped fraudster Ferdinand Kaplan arrives and is welcomed Read More »

Portrait of customs and vicissitudes of the Ruthenian and subcarpáticos Jews in the 30s of last century. Read More »

In a medieval fantasy kingdom, two orphans, May and his sister Martha, live in poverty. Read More »

Doctor John, who works in a Prague maternity hospital while still living at home with his mother Read More »

In 1942 Czechoslovakia, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich is appointed to become the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. Read More »

An older clerk Mr. Borman works in basement offices of the Land Registry Read More »

Stage mime Antoine Moreau (Tom Courtenay) is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance Read More »

Pictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema Read More »

A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops Read More »

One of the gems of the czechoslovak new wave. Impressionism on a film screen inspired by Maupassant’s Mouchette. Read More »

In a Nazi concentration camp, an escapee awaiting execution is spared Read More »

Some people with a strange cat arrive in a small village. The cat wears glasses, and when someone takes Read More »