Zdeněk Liška

Nacimiento : 1922-03-16, Smecno by Kladno, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Muerte : 1983-07-13

Películas

The Music of Zdeněk Liška
Himself (archive footage)
One of the best Czech composers of film soundtracks is often described as a genius of film scores. He was not afraid to experiment and the timelessness of his work is proven by the admiration of the world, including the generation who came to know his music only after his death.
Podnájem na Champs Ellysèes
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The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer
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In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys from the child's head, leaving him without the top of his head for most of the film. The professor then teaches the lad about illusions and perspectives, the pursuit of an object through exploring a bank of drawers, divining an object, and the migration of forms. The child then brings out a box with a tarantula in it: the professor puts his "hands" into the box and describes what he feels. The boy receives a final lesson about animation and film making; then the professor gives him a brain and his own open-book hat.
Povídka Malostranská
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Kam zmizel kurýr
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A mysterious man named Michael Allan Jones arrives in Prague to search for his ancestors. Specifically, he is interested in the year 1611, when a meteorite allegedly crashed near Dobruška. The search for him is helped by nice writer Marcela, who writes a short story about this topic. He thinks it wasn't a meteorite, but a UFO. With her, Michael visits several Czech locations with a mysterious past.
The Medal
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The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In his devotion to the Habsburg Monarchy, he fanatically carries out his military orders, but he ultimately suffers the Empire's disfavor.
Příhody brouka Pytlíka
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Ferda in the Anthill
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House Call
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Third movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu
Ferda The Ant In The Foreign Service
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Everyone knows Ferda the Ant, who knows how to work with everyone and selflessly helps all small animals from the beetle empire. Everything with him is fun, but he can also punish stupidity and injustice.
Silnější než strach
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And I'll Run to the Ends of the Earth
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Majka "Chatterbox" is a girl entering adolescence. She was born with a minor disability. While her mother keeps scolding her for the way she walks, her classmates mock her and call her a "duck". Along an innocent first love affair and a secret friendship, she receives little understanding from her parents and lots of malice from her schoolmates. Majka finds refuge with her grandmother and in her own fantasy world. Director Peter Solan made a sensitive portrait of a twelve year-old schoolgirl. The eloquent film language talks to child and adult audiences alike.
On the Great River
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Second movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu
Waiting for the Rain
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It’s a hot holiday season in the city and Alena is pretty much left to her own little self, fantasizing and running her personal daily rituals, keeping most people at a safe distance, yet trying to get male attention.
Shadows of a Hot Summer
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The story of 1947, when Bender's band, after a beating of the Nazis, tried to fight their way through Czechoslovakia to Austria. They come out of the forest to occupy the family's rural estate, kidnap doctors to help heal one of their wounded.
Settlement of Crows
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First movie of the famous Czech adventure trilogy: Osada Havranů Na veliké rece Volání rodu
Meeting in July
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A romantic story about Jakub, a student in the summer camp, and his teacher Klara.
Súkromná vojna
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Hodina pravdy
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A Story of Love and Honor
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A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as well as economic, political, and social hypocrisy. Two extraordinary but lonely artists share a passionate love, as evidenced by the preserved letters that they exchanged.
Smoke on the Potato Fields
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Un doctor regresa de un largo exilio en París para trabajar en la clínica de un pueblo en su Checoslovaquia natal, donde establece una relación casi paternofilial con una joven embarazada repudiada por su madre.
Smrt mouchy
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Příhody Ferdy mravence
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Castle of Otranto
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"The Castle of Otranto" is animation/short/mockumentary based on "The Castle of Otranto", a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole, the first Gothic novel. The novel takes place in Otranto in southern Italy. In Jan Svankmajer's mocumentary, the amateur archaeologist Dr Vozáb has set to prove that the supernatural ghost love story takes place not in Italy but in Otranto Castle near Nachod in Czechoslovakia.
The Little Mermaid
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The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems to work at first, the prince is enchanted with her lovely appearance. But the memory of a foreign princess still haunts him: The one who found him on the beach where the mermaid had left him, and whom he (of course) believes to be his saviour. To resolve this mistake is too much for the mute little mermaid, and not even her father, king of all seas, can help her in the impending catastrophe.
Odysseus and the Stars
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A group of children are investigating a chain of mysterious events during the seventies.
The Bride with the Most Beautiful Eyes
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Exotic, yet lyrically aimed fairy tale about a young gypsy Pista in search of a beautiful, gentle and faithful bride. An old man told him where to find a girl with those qualities, so Pista sets out on a journey to find the girl of his dreams without knowing that she is special: an hour a day human and rest of the day a chicken...
Plavení hříbat
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Já a Kiki
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Hudba kolonád
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Horúčka
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Škaredá dědina
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Sirius
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In SIRIUS, a young boy whose most cherished companion is his loyal German shepherd devises his own form of resistance when the Nazis arrest his father, then order the confiscation of local canines, including his pet, to be retrained as attack dogs against the rebellious populace.
This Is How Love Begins...
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Královské řádění
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Sokolovo
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Kto odchádza v daždi...
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Poslední ples na rožnovské plovárně
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Já a Fousek
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Já a Bleděmodrá
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Miracle
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This student film by the award-winning Helena Třeštíková bears many of the hallmarks of her later work. Made as a graduation piece when she was at the FAMU Film and TV Academy in Prague, we see the director developing the distinctive observational style of filmmaking that she has used so effectively throughout her career. Over the course of several months, she follows a young pregnant woman as she becomes slowly acquainted with the joys and responsibilities of motherhood.
Robinson Girl
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Blazenka likes to imagine she is on a desolate island and has to find a way how to survive. After the death of her mother she stays together with her baby brother and has to take care of the family. In this difficult situation, she plays this role-game that helps her to deal with the sudden loss of her mother.
Pavlínka
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Nemecká
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Do zbrane, kuruci
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Rozhodnutie
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Joachim, Put It in the Machine
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A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical days and few successful days. The clumsy luckless person Frantisek has finally a guidance for his life.
The Man from London
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A British citizen by the name of George Reiner (Jirí Sovák) arrives at Prague airport. He was once a Czech safe-breaker, and has now returned home after thirty years to steal twenty-dollar gold coins still kept in the safe at a private villa in Pilsen whose owner fled to the West.
Adam and Otka
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On the holidays, ten years old Adam and his little sister Otka, four years junior to him, travel from a village Vykán to their aunt to Prague. Their parents left for Hungary to the world championship in ploughing. The children have the address but they do not know the way to the Northern Town. They set out for a place on foot, across the historical parts of the town.
Tři nevinní
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Horká zima
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Accordion Song
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This story of a Soviet soldier who was killed during the liberation of Prague in May 1945 combines Zdenek Seydl's animated drawings with documentary footage by war correspondents.
Poradila teta Beta
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Já a Bělovous Zrzunda
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Já a můj dvojnožec
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Vodník a Zuzana
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The Miner's Rose
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Adapting a 1930s song, Brdečka presents a ballad of true love between a miner and his sweetheart in a tale that ends in tragedy.
The Legend of the Silver Fir
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According to one Beskydy Mountains legend, if you do a good deed you will see silver trees. Little Ondra knows trees like that. In his family's cottage hangs a picture showing silver firs, a person falling from a height and a watch. In art lessons Ondra paints trees of the same kind. - One day Lojzek Hojgr, a man who climbs fir trees to gather the seeds, comes to see Ondra's parents. Long-ago Ondra's father has had such a job and Lojzek is his long-time friend. Hojgr moves into a half-ruined wood cabin. Ondra's father takes him on a visit to Lojzek and both demonstrate the beautiful but dangerous work of seed-gathering to the boy.
Podezření
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Pokus o vraždu
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Známost sestry Aleny
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Príbeh potulného scholasta
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Muž v osidlech
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Love
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Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she has no experience with a partner love. She has been living alone with her divorced pretty mother Eva (Milena Dvorská), a dentist, for many years. Recently, however, Eva met her former school-days love at a graduates' party, nowadays a famous hockey goalkeeper Brukner (Frantisek Velecký). Also his marriage fell apart; he leaves the national team and decides to leave Prague for his home town and to share flat with Eva. He takes with him his son Petr (Oldrich Kaiser), in Andrea's age, who gets his last chance to finish a grammar school in the town.
Kronika žhavého léta
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Days of Betrayal
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This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
Zpívající film
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Inferno
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August Strindberg in Paris divorced from his wife, children and friends. In the company of Parisian artists and writers, including Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch, but often he feel they ridicule and persecute him. Isolated Strindberg venture successfully in alchemical experiments.
Field Lilies
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The second, and unfortunately. the last feature film made by a unique talent among Slovak filmmakers, Elo Havetta, is one of the most originial pictures of Slovak cinematography. The film was conceived as a paraphrase of Vincent Šikula's prose, the tragic episodes of which screenwriter Lubor Dohnal and Havetta composed into a dramatic story. The main characters are veterans coming home from the First World War. And while they feel a need to find A home and settle down, they are also driven by a passion for a vagrant's free life.
Hriech Kataríny Padychovej
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Čierne ovce
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Štědrý večer pana rady Vacátka
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Vlak do stanice Nebe
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Příběh se starou lenoškou
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Eagle Feather
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The film captures the new events in the lives of the main characters of the film "The Copper Tower". After two years spent in prison because of smuggling they return to the Stratená dolina valley and plan a revenge on police lieutenant Pardek.
Die gestohlene Schlacht
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Opory společnosti
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About Show-White
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Sixth-grade pupil Katka daydreams during a math class about being Snow White and being freed by a prince who looks very much like Dzery from the eighth grade. Katka, her girl friends Lenka and Martina, and her fellow-pupils Franta, Joska and freckled Vrabcák, have spent five years going to the same little one-class school in their home mountain village of Pastvina. Their kind teacher Smetácek was very understanding about their games and fantasies, but he didn't teach them much about arithmetic. They are now laughed at for their ignorance by the strict Bidlo, their new teacher at the near-by little town. As he does every year, Smetácek is preparing a theatre performance with the local children. Katka suggests the fairytale about Snow White
The Secret of a Great Narrator
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The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not hide his admiration for this literary giant, and in addition to the screenplay he also wrote a three-part TV play about Dumas (starring Vladimír Menšík). In Kachyn's film, Dumas played the father and son of the Štěpánková brothers, and it was a very difficult and difficult task for these young actors.
The Death of Black King
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Dosť dobrí chlapi
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Konfrontace
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Leonardo's Diary
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Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.
Moje první benefice
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Milenec léta
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The Town in White
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Kam slunce nechodí...
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Zvláštní případ
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Hry lásky šálivé
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Murder in the Excelsior Hotel
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In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates the murder of a wealthy woman, Mrs Matoušová, which threatens the reputation of the eponymous luxury hotel popular with Prague’s elite. Even the retired police inspector Mrázek (František Filipovský), who works at the Excelsior as a hotel detective, is unable to help at first. Although the investigation inevitably uncovers the hotel staff’s scheming, Vacátko and his team unerringly follow the trail that leads them to the murderer…
Hľadači svetla
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Hlavní přelíčení
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The Matches of a Beautiful Dragoon
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In a suburban villa, a woman of means is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec from the Prague Liben neighborhood reports the case to Police Councilman Vacátko, upon whose order an investigation is launched immediately. Zdychynec begins to suspect the wooer of his own daughter, a handsome dragoon named Rudi, of the crime. In Rudi's absence, Zdychynec searches his rented room in the apartment of the elegant Mrs Dragicová. All his findings - among others, sand left on Rudi's jackboots and a decent amount of money in his bedside table - convince the superintendent that he is following the right lead, especially when Rudi refuses to say where he was at the time of the murder.
Chance
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Otra vez salto sobre charcos
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El hijo del domador de caballos del emperador cae enfermo de poliomielitis.
Zločin slečny Bacilpýšky
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Burglar and Umbrella
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In the morning twilight of Prague, the dead body of the safe-breaker Toufar is found floating on the river Vltava with a knife in his back. Police inspectors visit Toufar's lover, the prostitute Anna Kulatá (Jirina Bohdalová), nicknamed Umbrella, and it is apparent that the moment before she opened the door of her flat, someone fled through the window. Umbrella is summoned for examination to the head of the criminal police - Police Councilman Vacátko Jaroslav Marvan, but although shocked by the photograph of the dead man, she does not confess to anything. Before Toufar, Umbrella lived with the safe-breaker Penicka (Radoslav Brzobohatý), who loved her very much and made her quit her street trade. But when he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, Umbrella began to live with the brute Toufar, who chased her to street again. In the case of the murder, Penicka is therefore the prime suspect.
Luk královny Dorotky
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A la deriva
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Un pescador salva a una mujer de morir ahogada y se la lleva a su casa. Allí se convertirán en amantes, pero la esposa del pescador parece sentirse también atraída por la extraña invitada.
Pán si neželal nič
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Jabberwocky
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Mientras una niña lee en "off" el poema de Lewis Carroll, un armario deja ver en su interior todo un mundo de juguetes antiguos que "actúan" ante la cámara.
Lišáci – Myšáci a Šibeničák
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The Copper Tower
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A dramatic story of three friends happily spending time on their own in a mountain cottage in the High Tatras. On the arrival of the wife of one of them their perfect friendship is put to a test.
Fruit of Paradise
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An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence.
El angel Levine
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Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
Aesop
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This film brings us back to show us the life of the famous ancient sage Aesop, who helped people with his wisdom in their struggle for freedom and happiness.
Adelheid
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1945, Checoslovaquia. Después de la II Guerra Mundial, se producen masivos movimientos migratorios que alteran el mapa étnico de Europa de forma irreversible. Viktor forma parte del grupo de checos a los que les han sido adjudicadas en los Sudetes tierras pertenecientes a alemanes que, antes de ser expulsados, se ven obligados a trabajar para los checos recién llegados. De este modo, Viktor conoce a Adelheid Heinemann, la hija del dueño del palacete que ahora es de su propiedad. En un mundo devastado por las diferencias étnicas y la violencia nacerá entre ellos un amor surgido del dolor más profundo.
Adelheid
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1945, Checoslovaquia. Después de la II Guerra Mundial, se producen masivos movimientos migratorios que alteran el mapa étnico de Europa de forma irreversible. Viktor forma parte del grupo de checos a los que les han sido adjudicadas en los Sudetes tierras pertenecientes a alemanes que, antes de ser expulsados, se ven obligados a trabajar para los checos recién llegados. De este modo, Viktor conoce a Adelheid Heinemann, la hija del dueño del palacete que ahora es de su propiedad. En un mundo devastado por las diferencias étnicas y la violencia nacerá entre ellos un amor surgido del dolor más profundo.
The Ossuary
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A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).
The Royal Chase
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A Ridiculous Gentleman
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When a noted professor receives a new treatment for his heart ailment, his outlook on life changes. Despite doctor's orders, he is determined to live out his final days on his own terms and fulfill his fantasies. He saves the life of a young woman who tries to kill herself after his recovery from heart surgery in this symbolic story of a man trying to determine his own fate in his last days alive.
Birds, Orphans and Fools
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In the aftermath of war, two men and a woman begin acting more like children than adults, leading to tragedy.
Celebration in the Botanical Garden
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One of the lead characters is Maria, an inn keeper; always a bride but never a wife. She meets the newcomer Pierre, who disturbs the peace of the small village and teaches the locals how to enjoy life. The film is full of fireworks of lovely colours, and a warm feeling. It is like a carousel of humour and human situations that carry us away, from the very first frame to the unexpected ending, making the viewer laugh gaily. Using a mosaic approach to the traditional narrative line, the film director creates a picture of fairly anarchic glee. “Celebration in the Botanical Garden” is a world of fantasy, full of summer fun, good humour and delight. E. Havetta´s debut was inspired by naïve art, French impressionism, and silent slap-stick as well as Western Slovakian folk traditions.
Prague Nights
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Prague - mystical city. It was here in the Middle Ages, alchemists and magicians gathered. Rumor has it that the house of Prague hide secret obtain the philosopher's stone, and complex multi-level labyrinth of underground tunnels and cellars keep many unsolved mysteries and untold treasures. Prague just full of ghosts and phantoms. Let us slightly lift the veil that hides the secrets and little to satisfy your curiosity, get acquainted with some legends of Prague.
El incinerador de cadáveres
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El señor Karel domina a sus familiares, amigos y empleados. Sólo está preocupado porque el tránsito de los difuntos hacia el más allá sea lo más limpio y rápido posible, todo mediante la incineración de cadáveres en el cementerio que regenta. (FILMAFFINITY)
Učitel a přítel zůstal veřejnosti neznám
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Honor and Glory
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This historical film by Hynek Bočan touches upon the indecisiveness of the Czech nation, ready to bend the backbone in face of foreign rule. Situating the story at the close of the Thirty Year War enabled the depiction of the misery of the people that affects even an impoverished aristocratic milieu. Rudolf Hrušínský appears here in the role of an indecisive knight, persuaded for a long time and in vain to join the anti-Habsburg movement. The story does not only captivate through the depiction of manifold human characters, intrigues and sycophancy, but also through the circumstances ruling over the devastated farmstead, sunk in mud and crudeness. One of the best films with an updating tendency has come into being here, rightly being named along the such greats as Kladivo na čarodějnice (Witches' Hammer).
Don Juan
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The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.
Metamorpheus
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Orpheus reconsidered, starting from animations of mosaic images. Eventually, there is lava.
Maratón
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It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.
Spravedlnost pro Selvina
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Niet inej cesty
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El valle de las abejas
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El conflicto entre razón y fe, la ausencia de Dios y la mentalidad pagana fue el eje argumental de una de las películas más recordadas de Frantisek Vlácil: El valle de las abejas.
Bitva na Červeném poli
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Journalist learns about battle in a small village.
The Flat
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A nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.
A Pact with the Devil
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A comedy about five students who are un-justly suspected of trying to lose their virginity before their graduation. The five girls first try to defend themselves, but when they find out that nobody believes them - neither the school principal nor even their own parents - they decide to accomplish what they have been falsely accused of. And although their clumsy attempts are mostly comic, at one point they almost cause a big tragedy.
The Flight
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The kids were smoking secretly in a barn, set fire and fled. Feeling that the investigation closely, "sits on his tail" and soon will be declared to her parents, the protagonist escapes from home. The charred ruins of the barn, he meets a young man who is also why some carefully avoids meeting people, and tied him. According to the book Hoffmann Ota (Ota Hofman).
Marketa Lazarová
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Historia ambientada en el Reino Checo durante la Edad Media que trata sobre la rivalidad entre dos clanes familiares de hidalgos pobres. Basada en la novela homónima de Vladislav Vancura, escritor checo del siglo XX.
Poklad byzantského kupce
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Wedding Under Supervision
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A comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One of the alleged rapists is supposed to get married the day he's locked up.
Tango pre medveďa
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Murder Czech Style
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The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.
Historia Naturae (Suita)
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An eight-part animated portrait of various species, accompanied by a different style of music. The various parts are: Aquatilia (foxtrot), Hexapoda (bolero), Pisces (blues), Reptilia (tarantella), Aves (tango), Mammalia (minuet), Simiae (polka) and Homo (waltz). Each animation mixes drawings, pictures, real animals and animated skeletons.
Et cetera
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A small, animated figure learns how to use a whip, a pair of wings and a house.
Jeden deň pre starú paniu
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Lidé z maringotek
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Punch and Judy
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Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.
Katya and the Crocodile
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It is the summer holiday and little Mísa Horák has taken a few animals from the school's so-called "Corner of Living Nature" home to care for. But when he brings home two Angora rabbits, a starling, a little monkey, a tortoise and a small crocodile, his parents order him to take them away. He is helped by Káta, who offers to place the animals in the child's room of her family's apartment. Mísa leaves for her friend where the animals will hopefully be able to stay. Káta goes shopping. In the meantime, Káta's younger sister Minka wakes up and begins to play with the animals, who gradually run off in disarray.
The Angel of Blissful Death
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Czechoslovak counter-espionage intercepts a coded message from the West German secret service ordering death for an unknown person on Czech territory.
Crime at the Girls School
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Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between climbers, the death of the dancer in the music theater and the strange disappearance of the mathematics professor.
Ten čas
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Chlapeček nebo holčička?
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The Snowman
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A snowman comes to life in this charming and playful stop motion short. In danger of melting once spring rolls around, the snowman eventually departs for an icier climate, perhaps to return next winter.
The Junk Shop
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Juraj Herz adapts Bohumil Hrabal's story about a man who works in a junk shop.
La tienda en la calle Mayor
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Anton Brtko es un humilde carpintero que trata de vivir con placidez en una pequeña ciudad eslovaca durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Aunque observa con ironía y desprecio a los seguidores nazis que tratan de imponer su disciplina sobre la comunidad, la presión de su esposa Evelyn y su cuñado Markus, un caudillo fascista local, no deja de poner trabas a su tranquilidad. Cuando Markus le ofrece hacerse cargo, en calidad de ario, de la mercería de la anciana Sra. Lautmann, su vida queda trastocada. Mientras Evelyn se ilusiona con la idea de enriquecerse, Tono intenta hacer entender a la Sra. Lautmann que queda relegada del negocio por ser judía, pero no sólo le resulta imposible a causa de la sordera de la mujer, sino que además entre ambos surge una relación de ternura y comprensión mutua. Las situaciones cómicas en la tienda se suceden mientras la fiebre antisemita se va intensificando en el exterior.
The Bells Toll for the Barefooted
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A dramatic story from the end of WW II and a remarkable contemplation of the value of true friendship, meaning and purpose oflife or the possibility to be humane even in inhuma ne conditions. In a frosty mountain setting a cruel struggle for life takes place. After a fight, two partisans return to their brigade carrying along a young German soldier as a captive. But suddenly, amidst the hopelessness of barren mountains. all protagonists find themselves in a liminal existential situation.
Čintamani & podvodník
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Bubny
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The House in Karp Lane
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Tales About Children
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Three small short stories, each of which was created by one of the famous Czechoslovak filmmakers of children's films: Magdalena, Fraud and Karp.
Blue Apron
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Surrealistic short animation by Hermína Týrlová.
Tak blízko u nebe
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Passing Through a Thick Forest
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Mykoin PH 510
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Defendant
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Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.
Trio Angelos
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Handlíři
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Vlněná pohádka
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Král komiků
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Tři zlaté vlasy děda Vševěda
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On the Tightrope
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Viaje al fin del universo
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La tripulación de una nave espacial busca un planeta que esté menos podrido que aquel de donde provienen. Durante su travesía descubren una nave abandonada manejada por cadáveres.
Death Is Called Engelchen
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Pavel is a Czech partisan fighter in the waning days of the war. Just as peace is declared, Pavel is shot in the spine and sent to the hospital emergency ward. As he fades in and out of consciousness, he recalls the events that led to his participation in the underground. Holding German occupation commander Engelchen responsible for all the horrors and deprivations heaped upon his comrades, Pavel is kept alive by the possibility of recovering and exacting vengeance upon the Nazi officer - no matter how long it takes.
El barón fantástico
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El astronauta Toni aterriza en la Luna y tras desmayarse cae en una profunda ensoñación. En su particular alucinación, el viajero estelar se encuentra con míticos visitantes de la Luna como Cyrano de Bergerac, Nicholas, Barbican, Michael Ardan y el barón Münchhausen. Se toman unas copas y el barón, tomando a Toni por habitante lunar, decide llevarlo a la Tierra para que conozca cómo viven los seres humanos. Aterrizan en Constantinopla, donde Blanca, una princesa del harén, se fija en Toni, a quien le pide que la libere. El barón le ayuda entonces a raptarla mediante sutiles métodos como pasarse por la espada a medio ejército aprovechando un apagón. Entonces huyen a caballo y se embarcan en un velero que se ve inmerso en una emboscada de la inmensa armada turca. De nuevo, el ingenio del barón los saca del atolladero y huyen en botes, pero son tragados por una ballena en la cual recorren medio mundo...
Zelené obzory
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Polnočná omša
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La trampa del diablo
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Siglo XVIII. A una aldea bohemia llega un nuevo párroco que adopta una actitud inquisitorial sobre la vida y costumbres de sus feligreses, tratando de averiguar si en su grey se oculta alguna oveja negra. El elemento discordante resulta ser un maduro molinero, que destaca por saber interpretar los signos de la tierra y del clima.
Man in Outer Space
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An upholsterer who is preparing a rocket for takeoff accidentally jettisons himself into space and returns to Earth 500 years later with an alien companion who wishes to learn more about the human race.
Chlapec a srna
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Obraz
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Labyrint srdce
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The Curious Letter
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An adventurous letter that wandered around the world instead of rushing to a summer camp to see its little recipient.
Spadla s měsíce
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Žalobníci
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The Song of the Grey Pigeon
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An unusual children's film set during World War II in Czechoslovakia, this compelling drama unfolds five different segments that present the war through the eyes of three youngsters. The three have a series of adventures which include saving a soldier from being captured by the Germans, helping out the resistance fighters, and meeting up with a young Russian woman trained in guerrilla warfare. As they learn more about life and danger, various circumstances constantly recall the reality of war itself. The title comes from a wounded pigeon under the care of one of the youngsters.
Hermína Týrlová
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Den odplaty
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Higher Principle
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During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
La paloma blanca
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Holubice sigue a una paloma mensajera tratando de completar el viaje de regreso hacia su dueña en Europa y el efecto que el cuidado de la paloma tiene sobre un artista, un niño enfermo, y una chica joven (la dueña de la paloma).
Partyzánská stezka
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When the Woman Butts In
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Kam Cert Nemuze by director Zdenek Podskalsky is a routine farce that slowly builds up steam to some rib-tickling slapstick episodes. (Miroslav Hornicek) is a deluded young man who is convinced he is Faust incarnate. This turn of mind leads to some ludicrous situations, such as when he believes a woman is really a cat. Before he can be rounded up and interned wherever they keep people with this type of a problem, love enters his life and the clouds that obscured his vision begin to dissipate.
Probuzení
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Pan Prokouk akrobatem
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Darujte odpovědně
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Johannes Doktor Faust
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The Faust legend retold with marionettes.
The Lost Doll
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A lovely fairytale for all tells the story of a doll that is lost, and with the help of other toys is looking for a way to her friend
The Choo-Choo Train
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A puppet fairy tale about a disobedient train that did not just want to carry coal and drove to return to his work after a sad experience.
Una invención diabólica
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Un malvado millonario llamado Artigas planea utilizar un artefacto explosivo para doblegar a las naciones libres, operando desde un submarino pirata, donde mantiene como prisionero al inventor del explosivo. En uno de sus raids hunde un buque que llevaba a la bella Jana, la hija del profesor, la cual es rescatada y llevada al cuartel general de Artigas, bajo un enorme volcán. Este filme está basado en la novela 'Face au Drapeau', que Jules Verne escribió en 1896. Combinando collage, animación fotograma a fotograma, falsas perspectivas, decorados, miniaturas y sobreimpresiones, Zeman construyó planos de un barroquismo hipnótico que, en una película como Una invención diabólica, dotaron de vida los aguafuertes elaborados por Benette y Riou para los libros de Julio Verne editados por Pierre-Jules Hetzel.
Všem nelze vyhovět
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The Knot in the Handkerchief
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A boy makes a knot in his handkerchief to remind himself to repair his leaky faucet. The handkerchief, however, is alive and kicking, and flees from its pocket to explore the outside world. The boy gets distracted by a game of soccer, forgetting the faucet. In the meantime, the handkerchief meets other pieces of fabric that come to life.
At the Terminus
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Several bittersweet stories set in a Prague apartment building.
Mr. Prokouk, Detective
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Story of Mr. Prokouk, who having read too many detective stories sees criminals everywhere.
Míček Flíček
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The Pig Shepard
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Puppet adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.
Chemistry in the kitchen
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Black diamond
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Zlatovláska
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Viaje a la prehistoria
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El genial mago checo de la animación foto a foto, Karel Zeman, entre sus numerosas recreaciones de los mundos de Julio Verne, nos llevará en un viaje a la Prehistoria por una travesía en el tiempo hacia atrás, en la que los jóvenes protagonistas conocerán a los dinosaurios. Zeman combina maquetas, acción real, dibujos animados y escenografías pintadas con resultados inigualables.
Nová těžní věž
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Topol
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Wreath of Songs
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Pan Prokouk, A Friend of Animals
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Z Argentiny do Mexika
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Do your feet hurt?
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Zrození sopky
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Lovci lebek
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Pohádka o drakovi
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Afrika – II. část – Od rovníku ke Stolové hoře
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Za tučňáky, lvouny a velrybami
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Africa - Part I - From Morocco to Kilimanjaro
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The Treasure of Bird Island
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People living on an island finds a treasure, but it does not only do them good.
African Dwarves
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V pravlasti kávy
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Tatra P 19720
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Vodní energie
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Zelená stráž
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Ostrovy milionů ptáků
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Žampiony
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Beskydy
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Po boku mužů
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Nine Chicks
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A fairy tale for children about correcting a selfish chick.
Vysoká pec
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El rey Lavra
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Primer largometraje de su realizador, se trata de una sátira basada en un poema de Karel Havlíček Borovský.
Raději dříve
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Jižní Morava žízní
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Jiráskův kraj
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Plán nese ovoce
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Mladí nastupují směnu
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Nepovedený panáček
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Pára nad hrncem
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Čína v boji
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Traktory jedou do lesa
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Nevýnosná linka
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Nový dům
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Mladí dobyvatelé vzduchu
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Cihly
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Skořepiny
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Electricity Management
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Noc kryje zločin
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Inspiration
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Cortometraje checoslovaco en stop-motion con figuras articuladas de vidrio. Narra la historia de un artista que busca inspiración en lo que ve reflejado en la naturaleza.
Cement
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Vápno
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Janko ide z hôr
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Janko ide z hôr
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Mládež vede Brno
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Nočná romanca
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Mr. Prokouk Inventor
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After a hard day at work, Mr. Prokouk decides to invent a machine to ease his labor. But inventing is work too, and Mr. Prokouk spends more time dreaming about inventions than actually inventing anything. Can he find an easy solution?
Dary jižní Moravy
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Zrcadlo na vesnici 3
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Výstraha
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Problém
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I andělé ztrácejí trpělivost
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Na kořen zla
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Mr. Prokouk Filmmaker
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Shortfilm from the Mr. Prokouk series. Mr. Prokouk wants to be a filmmaker, but the making of a film has more complications than he expected.
Západočeské lázně
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Elektrický den
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Lullaby
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The adventures of animated puppet Ku-Ku.
Collision
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PSA promoting traffic control and caution of children in the street.
Nový Zlín II – Lepší zítřek nár. podniku Baťa
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Nový Zlín I – Budujeme na troskách
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Dřevo jde s hor
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What Is Missing?
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A stop-motion advertisement for shoe company Baťa. Depicts shoe repair as surgery.
Mr. Prokouk Officer
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Cobler Mr Prokouk starts working in an office where there is a lot of paperwork too big for him.