Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte (Rudolf Hrusínský), an owner of a circus caravan Read More »
Tag Archives: Czechoslovakia
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 »
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 Story of the Voyages / Skazka stranstviy (1983) Aleksandr Mitta, Andrey Mironov, Tatyana Aksyuta, Lev Durov
In a medieval fantasy kingdom, two orphans, May and his sister Martha, live in poverty. 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 »
Operation: Daybreak (1975) Lewis Gilbert, Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland
In 1942 Czechoslovakia, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich is appointed to become the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. Read More »
Catacombs / Katakomby (1940) Martin Fric
An older clerk Mr. Borman works in basement offices of the Land Registry Read More »
The Last Butterfly / Poslední motýl (1991) Karel Kachyna, Tom Courtenay, Brigitte Fossey, Ingrid Held
Stage mime Antoine Moreau (Tom Courtenay) is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance Read More »