Just before World War 1, the fifteen-year-old poverty-stricken Anne from a small Slovak town is sent to Prague to be a maid in a wealthy family. She meets Resi, the daughter of a noble family, who was born and raised to be an adornment and a trophy – of the house, of her family, of Austria-Hungary. Anne and Resi, two girls born in the same year, but at the other ends of the social ladder, find a soulmate in each other. They become best friends, lovers and the only light in a male-dominated world.
Proxima
Olga Havlová
La trayectoria vital de Václav Havel (1936-2011), un dramaturgo perseguido y defensor de los derechos humanos en la República Checa sometida al poder implacable de la Unión Soviética que llegó a ser presidente del país a finales de los años ochenta.
Kelemenová
Herself
Rathe
Durante la II Guerra Mundial, el jugador de la liga profesional de béisbol, Moe Berg, vive una doble vida trabajando como espía para la Oficina de Servicios Estratégicos de los Estados Unidos.
In late-1950s Czechoslovakia, a young couple's new love is tested by their parents' expectations and the toll of the Communist regime.
Ludmila Brozová-Polednová
Milada Horáková fue una política checa, víctima de los procesos políticos de los años 50 en Checoslovaquia. Fue la única mujer ejecutada durante estos procesos y gracias a su rigidez y lucha por sus ideales se convirtió en el símbolo de la resistencia contra el régimen comunista.
In 1940s Prague, a former Nazi prisoner returns to run his posh hair salon and struggles with family, the rise of communism and his past.
Sisters whose husbands were arrested by the Gestapo struggle to get by with their children during WWII, while one grows close to a selfless doctor.
Marie Urbanová
Lenka Fafková
Año 1942. Dos checos saltan en paracaídas cerca de Praga con la orden de atentar contra el líder nazi Reinhard Heidrich, General de las SS y conocido como "el carnicero de Praga". Basada en la historia de la Operación Antropoide, la misión de la Segunda Guerra Mundial para asesinar a Heidrich, tercero en la línea de mando y artífice intelectual de la Solución Final.
Eliška
A story of Eliska and her daughter, starting a new life in a remote house with the 'father away on business', as the mother claims. After the lie is disclosed, their relationship begins to wither. At that time, the mythical Noonday Witch begins to materialize. She is coming closer and closer and the question is poised: is the danger real or is it all in the mother's crumbling head?
Dana
A loose adaption of Bára Nesvadbová's novel of the same name. A novel that lacks a dramatic line and concentrates on the flow of emotions and feelings of two injured and beloved women, two women that the aging lothario Mára came between. The theme of the entire book is the degree and limit of love, a right and ability to love several people simultaneously while hurting them at the same time. Written by Czech Film Center
Irena
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.
Tereza
República Checa /// Durante una íntima luna de miel que se llevará a cabo durante la tarde, la noche y la mañana siguiente en una casa de campo, irrumpirá un invitado inesperado.
A bitter-sweet comedy about two people who wish to live life to the full despite their age. Ota is a retired high-school teacher and at this point in life has various foibles that complicate life for his son and daughter-in-law. Moreover, he has a complicated and risky eye operation ahead. That is why Ota decides that this is the time to look up Jana, the retired actress who had influenced the course of his life many years ago. However, his reunion with Jana - who lives in a retirement home - works out differently to his expectations. Although disappointed at first, it is actually this zestful lady who sets Ota in the right direction again. Thanks to Jana, Ota finds the courage to set out on an exciting road-movie trip of the kind he would never have had the courage for in his youth. Their meeting and the excursion, full of unexpected turns and new impressions, give their lives a new dimension.
Jana
Fogi is enjoying his never ending puberty. But simultaneously Fogi is also trying to live up to his family duties and bring up Véna, his son from the first marriage. He did not get married again but lives with Jana, a post office employee. Together they have little Anicka and they all live in a flat in a small town. At first, Jana is trying to tolerate Fogi's moods, but her patience is running out. Fogi loses his job. On top of that he starts to see himself in his adolescent son and realizes with horror that Véna repeats his own mistakes. The first fights, bans and mutual misunderstandings are approaching.
Lida
The fall from the top to the absolute bottom can be very fast. A renowned physician, also a beloved father and husband, is accused of a serious felony. Innocence is hard to prove, especially when in desperation to try to save oneself, we sacrifice the secrets that should have remained hidden forever.
máma Petra
Bittersweet comedy about four teenage boys, their friends, parents, lovers - from the moment when they are 15 to moment when they are 18. Story is set in 1970s, when is Czechoslovakia occupied by Russians.
číšnice
Film crew on the road: Director (Jaroslav Plesl), his Producer (Simona Babcáková), and their Director of Photography (Jirí Vyorálek) and Sound Arist (Johana Svarcova). Starving artists who already have a number of films to their names, Czech Lion award-winning films, excellent reviews and have been screened at numerous festivals, but they don't have audiences. Their next collaborative effort - the Director's lifetime dream - is quickly becoming oblivion because he failed to win a grant, which means it won't be made. And so the frustrated Director and his colleagues await their chance among record-holders of curious disciplines such as crawling with a squash racket or collecting four-leaf clovers. How will the collision of these two worlds end? What will the Director's next film be about?
Comedy about divorced mother that has to raise two little girls.
Hanka, partnerka Piotra
Piotr (Paweł Królikowski) jest psychiatrą. Siedzi na nocnym dyżurze, gdy na jego oddział przywożą chłopaka. To Kamil (Lesław Żurek), syn którego nie widział całe lata. Chłopak znika ze szpitala równie szybko, jak się pojawił. Jednak Piotr postanawia nawiązać z nim kontakt. Zaprasza go do siebie i poznaje ze swoją piękną, młodą narzeczoną (Anna Geislerová). Po wizycie Kamila kobieta uświadamia sobie, że Piotr jest dla niej zagadką i naprawdę nic o nim nie wie. A Piotr rzeczywiście skrywa mroczną tajemnicę…
Prof Smidt
In Prague, a musician is consumed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend Klára. He hires a private eye to spy on her, but the plan backfires, setting in motion a series of out-of-control events.
Mrs. Snajderová
It is 1961 and an Albanian student (Nik Xhelilaj) of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, together with a group of Czech students, is shooting his graduate movie on a motorcycle factory, in the small market-town of Český Šternberk, in then Czechoslovakia. Coming from a country that is completely isolated from the rest of Europe, he is fascinated by the lifestyle, society and "erotic exuberance" of the Czech golden youth, yet feeling strong links with his family in his homeland. He falls in love with a married woman (Anna Geislerová), the wife of a police superintendent (Paolo Buglioni) and is insecure about his future.
Anna
Jirka, Roman, and Ivan have been friends since school. Today they are about 35 and, although they went into different fields, their friendship has lasted. Each of the three friends hides a secret, and their lives change radically when the secrets come out. How will the three friends stand up to the tests they are forced to face? Will their friendship survive?
Radka
Marcela Molíkov
Marcela can't bear Jarda any longer, so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom's, whose husband is a creep. While Marcela is there, Jarda is jailed, because he is part of a gang steeling cars and they get caught in the act. Benes, the urbane man whose car got stolen by Jarda and his gang, befriends Marcela. Soon she feels drawn to Benes and all of a sudden she must make up her mind: Jarda is still sexually attractive to her, but Benes offers security, and her own body and mind may not pull at the same strand.
Liba Zeman
Colin Frampton is an Englishman who never stops worrying, not even on holiday in Prague. When Colin's wife is accidentally squashed by a statue, he decides that he can't face life without her. So Colin bribes Pavel to help him die. An unlikely friendship develops as Pavel's plans for Colin's death spin out of control, attracting the violent interest of local gangster Karel Karlovic.
Charlota
Tras asistir al funeral de su madre, Jean Barlot emprende un viaje y se detiene a pasar la noche en una pensión. Durante el sueño causa destrozos en la habitación. A la mañana siguiente, averigua que un extraño marqués que se hospeda allí ha pagado los desperfectos y que, además, lo invita a pasar la noche en su castillo. Barlot acepta la invitación, pero sus fuertes convicciones morales y religiosas sufrirán un fuerte impacto al espíar al marqués y a sus amigos.
svatá Anna
A screwup angel is exiled from the Heaven down to Earth, incarnated as a beggar.
Dáša
Radiografía de un grupo de vecinos que habitan en un barrio obrero de una pequeña ciudad checa que muestra las cicatrices de la industrialización. Monika, Tonik y Dasha son amigos de la infancia. Viven en un conjunto de bloques en las afueras de una pequeña ciudad industrial, cerca de la mayor planta química del país. Monika, una chica amable y con un gran corazón, trabaja en un supermercado mientras espera que su novio George, que ha emigrado a EEUU, le mande el billete de avión para reunirse con él. Tonik, que está enamorado de Monika, ha dejado a unos padres conservadores para refugiarse en la vieja granja de una tía inconformista. Dasha, que tiene dos hijos pequeños, sale con un hombre casado y empieza a perder la cabeza. Cuando la ingresan en un hospital psiquiátrico, Monika y Tonik se hacen cargo de sus dos niños...
Eliška/Hana
1940, Segunda Guerra Mundial. Checoslovaquia ha sido ocupada por los alemanes. Eliska, una estudiante de medicina, no puede completar sus estudios porque han cerrado las universidades, y trabaja como enfermera en un hospital de la ciudad. La joven también está involucrada en el movimiento de la resistencia contra los nazis, al igual que su novio, el cirujano Richard. Una noche, un hombre de las montañas es traído al hospital con serias heridas, necesitando desesperadamente una transfusión. Eliska es la única con su mismo tipo de sangre... una sangre que le salva la vida y forjará una extraordinaria relación entre la moderna, cosmopolita y educada Eliska y el rudo y bárbaro Joza, un hombre del campo con alma de niño....
Catherine
El curso ha terminado y comienza la verdadera vida. Pero antes de que los doce amigos del Instituto Internacional de Praga se separen, van a llevar a cabo la mejor fiesta de sus vidas: la perspectiva de hacerla en la piscina más grande de Praga es muy atractiva, aunque es ilegal. Pero cuando a Gregor, líder del grupo, se le mete algo en la cabeza, los demás están de acuerdo. La que va a ser la noche de todas las noches rápidamente se convierte en una auténtica lucha por la supervivencia... los jóvenes se dan cuenta de que la muerte está entre los invitados. Un misterioso asesino enmascarado inicia una cacería humana por las instalaciones, y los chicos pronto llegan a la conclusión de que el criminal es, seguramente, uno de ellos.
Dornička/Háta
Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.
Maria
Valeri Sikorski knows from his doctors that his days are numbered because of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He wants to make a last adventure in his life and goes to England, but first he stops in Berlin to pick up his best friend Victor. But Victor has disappeared. Now Valeri's journey turns into a search for his old friend Victor.
A four-story omnibus depicting different Czech slices-of-life from the titular city.
Anna
Frantisek, the main character is returning to his family. Until now he's been, "successfully" avoiding all relationships. He is an ingenuous and a pure person and thus, is regarded as an idiot. He becomes involved in various love and family conflicts. It is because he hasn't experienced much of the "real" life that he is able to perceive human relationships in their genuineness.
Beáta
The film adaptation of the novel of the same by Michal Viewegh. The hero of the novel is a primary school teacher with a successful writing career ahead of him who accepts well-paid employment from an entrepreneur who entrusts him with the task of making his unusual daughter "see sense".
Danuta
Poland 1939, shortly before invasion of the German troops. To save their belongings from the Nazis, the Jewish family Diamant transfers them to their 17-year-old catholic maid Fusia. In return Fusia provides them with food until the ghetto is dissolved, and then hides 13 people in her loft for over two years. However, as the front approaches and two German nurses take quarter in Fusias apartment everything seems to be in vain.
Viktorka
Anna
Two guys bought a car and travelled through the country untill they met a lonely girl on the road. So they begin to travel together having so much fun. And there is another guy who has a better car and who is looking for the girl because he is her lover, he is her first one. What is going on inside of this girl? Nobody knows, until the end.
Marika
Una chica de catorce años de edad, es internada en una institución para enfermos mentales en lugar de un orfanato debido a un error oficial. La someten a un tratamiento cruel que se rige por la prepotencia de las enfermeras débiles y perversas. La chica intentará una huida desesperada.
Tráva
A comedy on a typical children summer camp from the socialist time, telling the truth about it: combination of strange cynical leaders, absent-minded young assistants with complexes, teenage girls desperately in love with them etc. What a pioneer camp pretended to be and what it really was about. All this produces many embarrassing situations.