Jiří Menzel

80-year-old Ali Ungar comes across a book by a former SS officer describing his wartime activities in Slovakia. He realises his parents were ...

The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.

Two young technicians, Filos and Kája, come to a small village that is a bit cut off from the rest of the world in order to find the best place ...

“A man is immortal as long as he lives in the memory of others,” said well-known Czech writer Arnošt Lustig with a wry smile. In December ...

Operation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968. The fleet of Polish tanks which ...

After many years, Anka Lomnická, a former countess and emigrant, arrives in Prague. By chance, she finds herself seated next to two characters ...

Kateřina works at an inn run by her evil stepmother. One day, she meets a young man she doesn’t know in the forest. He is Prince Jan, and ...

This film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák.

Ivan, in his early forties, returns, after many years of absence to his native town – a typical Middle – European small town in ...

The story of a family that is forced to flee the ČSSR in 1969 and seeks a new home in Germany.

A celebrated theatre director’s perfect life unravels when his wife’s secret lover exposes the hollowness beneath his success, leading to a calm ...

An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them ...

A fairy tale of three brothers who try to save a princess kidnapped by an evil wizard.

Prague 1994, hotbed of international profiteers. Here you can still find buyers for discarded everyday objects, here you can still buy cheap ...

A film about the uncertainties faced by a man in post-Communist Slovakia, his relationship with a teenage son and English teacher girlfriend ...

An unknown Polish writer can’t publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally ...

A film impression about Bohumil Hrabal – an encounter with the man and his literary work. The film was shot in places well known and close ...

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.

Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty. Now he is playing time from time to rich ...

Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different for the mother of eighteen-year-old ...

​Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.

The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his sixtieth birthday party by the news from the ...

The main character of the story which takes place in the twenties in Budapest is the poet Dr. Rácz György, who returns after ten years of ...

A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a ...

The general practitioner Balla and his wife abandoning her higher education begin their common life in the small mountain village in the hope of ...

A young man studying law finds a place to stay with a young conductor, thinking that he will find an idyllic Lesser Town atmosphere here and will ...