Anna (1987)

El agente 007 se enfrenta a una nueva misión en Bratislava: ha sido designado expresamente por el general Koskov para que lo proteja al desertar de la KGB. Tras escapar hacia Austria, Koskov se reúne con la organización de Bond en Londres para ponerlos al corriente de los planes de general Puskin, que tiene la intención de asesinar a una serie de agentes británicos. Bond no cree la historia de Koskov, más aún cuando éste es capturado de nuevo por la KGB. Para dar con el paradero de Koskov, Bond regresa a Bratislav, donde encuentra a la novia del general, que también corre peligro. La ayuda a escapar, y descubre que Koskov se halla en Tanger junto al general Whitaker, traficante de armas.

El 27 de mayo de 1942 murió víctima de un atentado Reinhard Heydrich, jefe del gobierno nazi de Praga. El doctor Franz Svoboda, miembro de la Resistencia y autor material del atentado, se esconde en casa del profesor Novotny.

Praga, Checoeslovaquia, durante el período de entreguerras. Jan Dítě, un joven y avispado camarero que quiere hacerse millonario, llega a la conclusión de que para alcanzar su ambicioso objetivo debe ser diligente, escuchar y observar todo lo que pueda, ser siempe discreto y usar lo aprendido en su propio beneficio; pero las turbulentas mareas de la historia se interpondrán continuamente en su camino.

A film adaptation of the novelette of the same title written by Dominik Tatarka depicts the life of a young generation of artists that was formed in Slovakia during the war. Anabella, a young and beautiful girl meets a group of artists. She awakens their erotic desires but also pure feelings of love; she becomes the object of their secret fantasies as well as their artistic inspiration. And it seems that the boundaries between reality and fantasy suddenly cease to exist.

En 1945, después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la caída del régimen nazi, los derrotados, fueron maltratados atrozmente, especialmente aquellos alemanes étnicos que habían vivido pacíficamente durante siglos en los países vecinos de Alemania, como Checoslovaquia y Polonia. Una desgarradora historia de venganza contra civiles inocentes, la historia de actos tan crueles como la ocupación nazi durante los años de guerra.

Checoslovaquia, 1941. Mientras la guerra continúa, el Protector del Reich Reinhard Heydrich llega a la Praga ocupada por los nazis y establece un régimen de terror que obligará a los luchadores por la libertad a actuar. Pero el precio a pagar será demasiado alto.

A day in the life of Arnošt, a soldier staying in Josefov. A sense of desperation permeates the environment as well as the mind of the protagonist. It is sunday, and saturday left just a hangover. Days go by, nothing changes. A metaphor for the political situation in the Czech lands at a time where depicting a soldier as a drunk was considered out of place to say the least.

Anna (interpretada por la prometedora estrella eslovaca Judit Bárdos) pelea por poder clasificarse para los Juegos Olímpicos de Los Ángeles. La joven se entrena día tras día bajo el ojo supervisor de su preparador, hasta que gente de las altas esferas políticas descubren su talento y deciden acelerar su carrera. Así es como Anna entra a formar parte de un proyecto de investigación de esteroides anabolizantes ilegales auspiciado por el estado. La atleta no tardará en darse cuenta de lo que de verdad ocurre cuando empiece a padecer los efectos negativos para su salud que tiene la ingesta de tales productos.

A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dis­patcher at the small railway station in Bílý Potok, a remote village on the Czech–Polish border. He's a loner, who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the loneliness of the station tranquil – except when the fog rolls in. Then he hallucinates, sees trains from the last hundred years pass through the station. They bring ghosts and shadows from the dark past of Central Eu­rope. Alois can’t get rid of these nightmares and eventually ends up in sanatorium. In the sanatorium, he gets to know The Mute, a man carrying an old photograph who was arrested by the police after crossing the border. No one knows why he came to Bílý Potok or who he’s looking for, but it is his past that propels Alois on his journey…

Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family to the big city and becomes an enterprising vacuum cleaner salesman. There he embarks on a series of adulterous adventures, has encounters with boxing pros and famous portrait artists, and schemes to purchase the perfect pond to fulfill his passion for fishing. When the Nazis gain control, the comedy turns sour - he loses his lake, his job, and finally, his family.

Two female clerks using up their savings to enjoy a few days of carefree life, two plumbers looking for an erotic adventure, a building contractor determined to drink away all wages of his workers and a former major who became an alcoholic due to political persecution — these people meet in a ski resort bar somewhere in the High Tatras. During one night they gradually reveal their unfulfilled dreams, illusions and disappointments of ”average" people of those times.

Operation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968. The fleet of Polish tanks which arrive to liberate their neighbor, ostensibly threatened by a counter-revolution, includes the old tank nicknamed Ladybird, which is the last to leave the barracks.

British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory where it is being manufactured.

This light comedy finds a Czech taxi driver taking his family on a weekend outing in the country. His wife, daughter-in-law, son and two grandchildren are the passengers who disturb the solitude of two young lovers. While the women attend the horse races, the father sits home getting drunk and watching football. The overweight daughter-in-law is upset because she has blown her chances to become a ballerina. All members of the family are caught up in their own individual problems in this realistically portrayed family comedy

Laid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger generation. The two groups must live together, but it's not easy at all.

"Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak director Peter Solan and Czech director Zbynìk Brynych shot three different stories. The result was an extraordinary experiment in the world cinema, which we can call an insight in the relationships of men and women of different age groups, an analysis of love and marriage of those who are at the beginning, in the middle or going towards the end of their life."

Czech refugee Krystyna travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna. After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna finds that celebrity often doesn't travel well, and she must go through a battery of humiliating auditions to try and get work in her adopted land. But when Krystyna and Anna finally meet, they provide a support structure for each other.

Despues de las atrocidades cometidas por los nazis en un pueblo checo, Reinhardt Heydrich, un comandante de las SS, es asesinado por unos campesinos.

After an attack against the guard of the Third Reich, Nazi repression intensifies, and the Czechoslovakian resistance's organized sabotage in an aircraft factory leads to Gestapo shootings.

An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her shop, she sometimes doubles as a fortune teller. When Jan, a Czechoslovakian jazz musician and Elsa's old lover comes to town to perform at a "peace and friendship festival", her well-organised life is jolted out of balance.