Dr. Smrčka
A drama that tells the story of the physician and politician MUDr. František Kriegel, the hero of the Prague Spring of 1968, who was arrested and kidnapped to Moscow on the night of August 21st together with five leaders of the party and the state (Dubček, Černík, Smrkovský, Špaček and Šimon). He was the only Czechoslovak politician who managed to stand up to Brezhnev in Moscow captivity, even under the threat of liquidation, and not to sign the Moscow Protovol which meant agreeing to the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
King Richard
herec v divadle
Host
(voice)
With humor our adventure story deals with the timeless theme of the conflict between unlimited power on the one hand, and the desire for freedom, courage and love on the other. A troupe of buskers lands on an island governed by a despotic ruler with strict police control. When, during their performance, a shot fired from a circus cannon goes astray, it triggers a series of unexpected events. A young man and woman, Drin and Tuvi, and Nathan the seagull have to enter into an uneven struggle with totalitarian power. A struggle which eventually changes the fates of all the island inhabitants - both human and feathered.
Commentary (voice)
Narrator (voice)
Kozderka
Drátek
A team of detectives bumbles and fumbles their way through an investigation that involves murder, blackmail and possibly someone they know.
In 1976 a famous American writer Nathan Zuckerman is challenged by Czech immigrant Sisovsky who implores him to retrieve valuable manuscripts from communist Czechoslovakia. The writer accepts this dangerous mission, where his every step is observed by secret police. Once in Prague, he meets Sisovsky‘s flamboyant and wild ex-wife Olga who is in possession of the manuscripts. The evolving relationship between the hot-headed Olga and Nathan is a confrontation between two worlds - the repressed East and free West. But, Olga won‘t give up the manuscripts to Nathan so easily…
Narrator (voice)
Situated in Prague, a 20-year-old Vietnamese named Song, hoped for a better future in Europe. But now in a Vietnamese district in Prague, he is trapped in a marijuana grow house and has life of a modern slave. Police rounds up the place. Song runs away on the rooftop of a condo building in a nearby district where he breaks down. Mr. Rypar (78) lives alone. He is fond of the old times, living in a strong opposition to modern world. Rypar goes up on the roof and meets Song standing on the very edge of the roof crying and the story begins.
Jindřich Veselý
유명한 체코 감독 이반 트로얀이 스릴 넘치는 스릴러뿐만 아니라 공산당이 체코슬로바키아에서 권력을 잡은 소위 제3공화국(1945-1948) 시기의 역사적 기록과 목격자 진술을 바탕으로 한 실제 사건을 충실하게 재구성한 작품을 선보인다. 영화는 이전에 언급된 적은 없지만 체코슬로바키아 전후 발전에 크게 기여한 즈데녜크 토만 해외 정보국장에 관한 믿기 힘든 실화를 보여준다. 그는 공산당이 다가오는 선거에서 이길 수 있게 자금을 마련하는 역할을 맡았다. 그리고 그는 항상 자기와 자신의 가족 그리고 공산당을 위해 돈을 마련하는 방법을 알았다. 막강한 권력을 가진 이 파렴치한 사업가는 자기 일을 수행함에 있어 그 무엇도 꺼리지 않았다. 암거래, 협박, 전범과 그들의 피해자에게 돈을 받아내는 것도 서슴지 않았다. 그는 자신의 위대한 업적 때문에 그 자신 뿐 아니라 친지도 높은 대가를 치뤄야했다.
Vladislav
An awkward teacher spends Christmas Eve with a student and his attractive wife.
Neil Knockout (voice)
Life is not easy for Laika, a dog on the outskirts of a big Russian city. She is caught and forcibly retrained to become a pioneer in astronautics. Soon after her lift-off into space, a number of animals follow that are hurriedly launched from Houston and Baikonur. The animals travel astray, but finally manage, with the help of a black hole, to colonize a faraway planet. After a short period of harmonious, undisturbed co-existence with indigenous life forms, however, first human cosmonaut run ashore on their planet, and their harmonious life, indeed their very survival, are suddenly in jeopardy.
ANNA ALEXANDROVNA BARKOVA (1901-1976) Journalist and poet, meeting suspicious characters. Involved in immoral love affairs. Work in the Kremlin, fired. 1934 - Arrested, 5 years of penal servitude in Karaganda. Lived in Ukraine during the WWII. 1946 - Arrested, 5 years of penal servitude in the Komi Republic. 1956 - Rehabilitated, disability pension. 1957 - Arrested, 10 years of penal servitude. The film 8 Heads of Madness is about the eternal struggle between the artist and external circumstances, the artist and her demons and longings. 8 Heads of Madness is a drama woven from fragments of an appalling era. An unhappy cross-section of the 20th century in an unhappy country, as seen through the sensitive, perceptive vision of a poet.
gardener Kostál
Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He needs to make new friends and get used to a new life which is immensely different from what this city boy was used to.
Commentary (voice)
A timid painter falls for a charming window arranger but his inexperience, her jealous boyfriend and her sudden disappearance pose romantic challenges.
Starosta
Eliska's husband has left her for a younger woman. She is childless, in her early forties, yet still attractive. Till then she had taken care of her successful husband, but now she has to start anew without his financial support. Eliska starts teaching at a local village school. Since she can't find a lodging, she moves to a former morgue. The small house is already occupied by a quirky and grumpy graveyard keeper named Bozicek. Their house sharing leads to a series of comical conflicts, but they eventually fall in love and Eliska proves to her ex-husband that she is able to stand on her own.
police commander
In trouble with the mob, a criminal spots a golden opportunity when he meets a teacher who bears a striking resemblance to him.
Ludwig Klitzsch - UFA Director
2차 세계 대전이 발발할 무렵 큰 꿈을 품고 베를린에 온 한 여배우. 그러나 요제프 괴벨스와의 만남은 그녀의 삶을 송두리째 바꿔 놓는다.
Narrator (voice)
Pedantic policeman Frantisek (Ondrej Vetchý) wants to bring up his three daughters with a firm hand. He would like to see the girls coupled with capable and successful men, but instead they have the talent to find the opposite. Moreover, one of them is constantly trying to get pregnant, second one is only dating exotic fools and the third one is expecting a baby without knowing who is the father. Frantisek and his wife (Simona Stasová) always spend their vacation at the local lake, although the wife is dreaming of the seaside. One day she meets a bohemian writer with slightly suicidal tendencies (Miroslav Táborský) and an attractive colleague with Spanish roots (Kristína Peláková) walks into Frantisek's office and things get moving...
Promodral
The Little Man lives happily in his little house in the Hollow Mountain. His peaceful life ends once he begins to have dreams about a mysterious house where he is to find what he desires. Even though he does not feel like having any desires, he crack the mystery himself.
Lékař
삼형제의 맏이로 부모님 대신 동생들을 돌보며 살아가는 소년의 유일한 취미는 병아리를 부화시키는 것이다. 그러나 여우에게 닭이 물려 죽기도 하는 등 계속된 실패로 소년은 매번 좌절을 맛보지만 시간은 흐르고 마침내 부화에 성공하게 된다. 가족의 보살핌이 결핍된 아이들의 사랑에 대한 갈구를 병아리의 부화에 비유하여 은유적으로 잘 표현한 점이 돋보인다. (2015년 제32회 부산국제단편영화제/김영조)
Taxi driver
Two eleven-year-old boys use cameras to document their worlds.
Hrdoň
In a godforsaken cave, a traveling journeyman fills his pockets with gold. Voita lost his father and mother in the war and is now seeking his fortune in the world. He got to the abyss at Gallows Mountain only by chance - or have mysterious powers led him there in this spooky stormy night? Suddenly, he notices a strange fellow among the treasures. The apparent ghost and custodian of this treasure chases away the young man, who still manages to secretly pocket a small, fateful lighter...
Based on a classical czech fairy tale.
komoří (voice)
kolega
Nino Saint Jean
17세기 유럽의 어딘가, 눈보라를 헤치고 우르수스가 살고 있는 집을 두 고아가 찾아온다. 유랑극단 공연자인 우르수스는 기이하게 찢어진 그윈플렌의 입을 보고 깜짝 놀라지만, 두 아이를 불쌍히 여겨 그윈플렌과 눈이 먼 데아를 자신의 아이들로 받아들인다. 훗날 그윈플렌은 자신의 찢어진 입을 무기로 최고의 광대로 성장하게 된다. 타고난 연기력과 기괴하게 찢어진 입으로 유럽 전역에서 유명해진 그윈플렌의 공연은 대성황을 이루지만 그 소식을 듣고 어린 시절 자신의 입을 찢어놓은 누군가가 공연장을 찾아오기 시작하고 세상은 그윈플렌의 인생을 바꿀 거대한 준비를 시작하는데….
pán u hrobníka
(voice)
Prof. Maznička
Czech teacher Peter experiences journey into the past to late 80´s to recover his true love Eliška. At present he´s nothing but relationship´s loser so he tries to find his true love at least at the past. During his journey he passes not just through relationship´s problem but thanks to his radical opinions also encounters problems with communists, even if he knows already from the future that totalitarian regime won´t last forever.
Filip Dubský (starosta)
vyprávěč (hlas) / Václav Maršíček (hlas)
This adaptation of a book by Jiří Marek consists of four animated episodes that are interconnected by a live-action element.
Narrator (voice)
Vodák (voice)
Young Ondra has asthma and so his parents throw away his favourite toy: a musty old stuffed bear named Kooky. That night Ondra dreams that Kooky is determined to find his way back home from the dump. In the boy's fantasy, the bear gets lost in a forest occupied by strange animals and remarkable beings that he never heard of while living on the toy shelf in Ondra's room. And of course even in this small imaginary world, true good exists as does real evil, which Kooky must face up to in order to become a real hero.
šejk / Olda
Father
Doktor Běhounek
Magic and spells in the peaceful town of Jack-o'-lantern, which you will not find on any map. A funny story telling you how a magician's visit can turn his life back and how Ondra may have been fortunate enough. In the poetic fairy-tale grotesque, taking place in the non-existent town of Jack-o'-lantern, the time has stopped. The hands on the clocks show twelve minutes in twelve minutes, as if they were symbolically giving the last chance. Only the mysterious figure of Acrude knows how the story of the bluddy and the fate of his heroes will come. The well-known clairvoyant Heliodromus arrives in town. In front of school, the main hero of the story Ondra is acquainted with his daughter, Adelka...
Štandlík, ředitel Opery
inspektor
Vypravěč
Kozderka
The film follows Marie, Jirka and their wealthy parents, as well as murderer Jiří Tichý. The film takes place mostly in southern Moravia.
Head of hospital
Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as well. He feels no-one takes him seriously and he loathes the doctors, who treat him with disdain. When an old man begs him to end his pain and suffering by helping him to die, Hynek gives him a "liberating" injection. But now he has done it once, he finds he can't stop. He continues killing other patients, even though he knows he can't get away with it for long.
Klein
Dreaded serial killer Peter Kurten voluntarily turns himself over to the authorities. A young lawyer, eager to prove Kurten's mental derangement, agrees to defend a man who terrorized Germany between 1929 and 1931. In studying the case and meeting with the intelligent, cold-blooded manipulator, the young idealist's values become warped.
doktor Skarab
어느 집 다락방에서 행복하게 살아가는 장난감들이 있다. 스페인 꼭두각시 인형 ‘핸섬 경’, 최고의 도자기 인형이며 귀여운 제빵사인 ‘버터컵’, 기차역장인 “테디”, 진흙 인형 ‘로랑’ 등. 아침이면 늘 맛있는 케익을 구워주던 버터컵이 어느 날 갑자기 악의 세계를 다스리는 잔인한 무리들에게 의해 납치된다. 버터컵을 구하고 평화를 되찾기 위해 친구들의 노력은 과연 성공할 수 있을까?
generál Ryneš
두 왕국의 공주와 왕자는 여러 우여곡절을 겪으면서 운명처럼 만나고 사랑하게 되지만 사탄이 둘의 사랑을 방해하기 시작한다. 하지만 두 사람은 난관을 극복하면서 행복한 결말을 맞게 되고 사탄왕과 사탄왕국 사람들은 인간들의 친구가 된다.
Documentary film about visual effects master Emilio Ruiz del Rio. From his early works on films at 1942, to his last contribution at 2007, Emilio Ruiz talks on his film experiences and traditional trickery, using foreground miniatures, glass shots, and painted cut out miniatures. It shows interviews with some of the professionals he has worked with, like, Rafaela de Laurentiis, Ray Harryhausen, Guillermo del Toro, or Enzo Castellari
vypravěč
Kozderka
This unofficial Czech remake of Alexander Payne's blockbuster seriocomedy Sideways (2004) concerns Jirka and Honza, two friends who check in as complete opposites on every level; Honza is a polished urbanite, Jirka a nickel-and-dime crook with a flair for wooing women. The men's friendship is characterized by an unending series of wild schemes and escapades. When Honza learns of his grandfather's impending death, it brings him face-to-face with his own mortality and encourages him to fulfill his long-held dream, while he still has the opportunity: to embark on a dream vacation to the vineyards of Morovia, with buddy Jirka in tow.
Madlafous
cesták
We meet Veronica shortly before her high-school graduation exams. She lives with her mother, an alcoholic, and her mother's partner. One day when he is drunk, he chases Veronica to the roof of a house and falls off, killing himself. He was in debt as he was addicted to gambling. His creditor wants the money back and starts to threaten Veronica. Her mother will not protect her since she is always drunk. Thus, the young girl must leave home and hide far away. On her journey she meets many characters. Some of them are comic, others are rather tragicomic. And Veronica tries to find good people with whom she would feel comfortable and happy, thus giving her life meaning. - Czech film center
Šašek
vedoucí Šubrt
Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… dramatically. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society.
poručík Sedláček
A filmmaker goes on the run rather than complete his latest picture in this offbeat comedy from Macedonian auteur Ivo Trajkov. A director (Trajkov) has grown weary of battling his producer for control of his latest project and decides to hit the road, borrowing his girlfriend's auto and stealing the production bankroll from the project's financiers. While at first the director claims to have a grand scheme for his ill-gotten gains, his plans take a serious left turn when he meets a strange young woman and an eccentric hitchhiker.
Arnošt Košťál
Based on actual events. Late 1941, Group Silver A are dropped into occupied Czechoslovakia on an SOE mission to set up a Radio communications centre for the resistance, and contact a German Army officer whom is forwarding information to the British.
The Friendly Police Officer
유럽으로 배낭여행을 떠난 미국인 배낭족 팩스턴과 조쉬는 여행도중 만난 올리와 함께 암스테르담에 머물던 중 알렉스라는 남자를 만난다. 그는 슬로바키아에 가면 ‘미녀와 멋진 하룻밤’을 보낼 수 있다며 어느 호스텔을 알려준다. 이들은 슬로바키아의 브라티슬라바로 향하고 그곳에서 기대 만큼이나 멋진 꿈 같은 밤을 보낸다. 하지만 그 다음날 갑자기 올리가 사라지고, 같은 호스텔에 묵고 있던 일본인 배낭여행족 유키도 행방불명이 된 것을 알게 된다. 이후 조쉬 마저 연락이 두절되자 무언가 이상한 느낌을 갖게 된 팩스턴은 친구들을 찾아 나섰다가 끔찍한 고문실에 갇히고 마는데…
Comedy about group of suiciders.
Narrator (voice)
Old Miller
때는 19세기 프랑스. 전국을 돌아다니며 괴물들과 악귀들을 퇴치해 준다는 명목으로 돈벌이를 하는 ‘사기꾼 퇴마사’ 형제 윌(맷 데이먼) 그림과 제이크(히스 레저) 그림. 프랑스 정부는 이들 형제의 어설픈 사기행각을 눈치채게 되고, 그림형제는 목숨을 건지기 위해 정부와 협상을 한다. 정부는 그림형제를 알 수 없는 이유로 처녀들이 연이어 사라지는 정령이 깃든 마법의 숲, ‘마르바덴’으로 이들을 보내버린다. 그 곳에서 살아남기 위해서 그림형제는 소녀들을 구해야만 한다. 마법의 숲 마르바덴에 도착한 두 형제. 미스터리로 가득찬 숲 속에서, 전설에 둘러싸인 ‘거울여왕’(모니카 벨루치)과 맞닥뜨리게 된다. 라푼젤 성에 잠들어 있는 거울 여왕과 그녀의 주변을 맴도는 정체 불명의 늑대인간. 그녀의 정체와 비밀을 파헤치면서 그림 형제는 진짜 모험을 시작하게 되는데…
Waiter at Opulent Hotel
고등학교 졸업과 동시에 여자친구에게 채인 스콧 토마스. 수년 간 이메일과 채팅으로 사귀었던 자신의 독일어 과목 공부를 도와준 독일 친구가 남자가 아닌 아리따운 여성임을 알게 되자, 세 명의 친구들과 함께 그녀를 만나러 유럽 여행에 나서면서 갖가지 소동이 벌어진다.
Hanousek
Pan de Martinier
Defendant at the trial
For ten years, immigrant Tobias has worked at a Swiss clock factory and, in the relentless ticking, he saw life go by without much expectation. One day, he sees Caroline, a former schoolmate from back in Eastern Europe, and falls in love with her, but she's married and has a daughter.
Vilda Houf
제2차세계대전 당시 영국공군 소속으로 전쟁에 참전한 '체코' 전투기조종사들의 이야기를 그린 전쟁영화
Waiter
Mr. Laffler is strange. Everyone in the office he runs knows that. The clerk, Costain also knows this, so he is very surprised when his otherwise impersonal boss does something as human as inviting Costain to dinner. But not at home. At home, he says, he does not accept guests. He leads him to an inconspicuous, secluded restaurant U Sbirra, where a very closed company of strange people meet.
Václav Passer
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to arise...
Frantisek is a deaf man who has spent years in prison for the apparent murder of a man he believed was threatening his then girlfriend, Liza. Once released, Frantisek begins to search for Liza, but the task proves harder than he hoped.
Rudovous
Prince Victor looks in vain for a swan which was wounded by one of his servants. Instead he discovers a beautiful girl with golden hair who has an arrow in her shoulder. She is dumb and can't explain her origin. He falls immediately for her. The girl quickly recovers, but disappears mysteriously.
Háli
Gustav
비극적인 사고로 엄마를 잃고 아빠, 새엄마와 함께 살아가는 릴리. 아이를 사산한 후 분노의 화살을 릴리에게 돌린 새엄마는 흑마술로 릴리를 죽이려 한다. 유명 동화 《백설 공주》를 기반으로 한 판타지 호러 영화.
Novotný
첼리스트 루카. 한때 교향악단에서 환호성과 박수갈채 속에 파묻혀 지냈지만 지금은 장례식 연주와 묘비명에 페인트칠하는 변변치 못한 소일거리로 생계를 연명한다. 독신이지만 그에게는 항상 여자가 있다. 냉소적이며 자유주의자인 그도 고독을 쉽게 피해갈 수는 없다. 친구가 묘한 제안을 해왔다. 한 여자와의 계약 결혼. 그녀가 영주권을 얻을 때까지만 부부처럼 지내면 된다고 한다. 처음엔 거절했지만 두둑한 돈봉투의 유혹을 뿌리칠 수 없다. 그 돈이면 무거운 첼로를 싣고 다닐 수 있는 중고차 한 대쯤살 수 있으리라. 루카에게 난처한 일이 생겼다. 계약결혼한 여자가 다섯 살바기 코흘리개 아들을 남겨두고 애인을 찾아 독일로 망명해 버린 것. 꼬마 콜리야는 할머니 집에 맡겨졌으나 그 할머니마저 노환으로 몸져 누워버려 어쩔 수 없이 법적인 아빠 - 루카에게 온 것이다. 처음엔 계속 훌쩍거리기만 하는 아이가 왜그리 귀찮은지. 콜리야는 어느새 루카의 전부가 되었다. 자전거도 타고, 사진도 찍고, 캠핑도가고, 만화영화도 같이보고. 코흘리개 루카를 아빠라고 부른다. 하지만 만남은 언제나 이별을 준비하는 법. 둘만의 행복한 시간을 보내던 콜리야와 루카는 서독에서 온 엄마의 방문을 받는다.
Ohnivec
An evil witch is trying to steal a magic purse possessed by the local ruler. Thanks to Princess Blanka's love, Prince Petr wins out over the witch.
Burín
This international co-production, shot at Barrandov Studios with international cast including Czech actors is an attempt to create a sci-fi fantasy in the tradition of Star Wars and Star Trek. Sometime in the distant future, several earthlings turn up on a strange planet ruled over by a despotic ruler with magic powers. A young earth-man initiates a successful uprising.
sluha Fridrich
Young English gentleman Richard travels with his uncle Archibald to Prague, Czech kingdom. There he meets a beautiful girl Olivia, a young noblewoman with a secret. They fall in love with each other but he doesn't know Olivia is a companion of evil count Kronberg, ruler of pack of Prague vampires.
Don Omar
An interesting attempt at a postmodern crazy comedy with elements of parody. The plot turns on the search for the recipe of a liqueur made by the film’s financial backer.
paranoik
des. Voháňka
Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Technical auxiliary battalions, aka "the black barons". Although it might seem like a political satire and it's mostly funny, it shows the reality and the absurdity of military service under the communist regime. Based on a novel by Miloslav Svandrlik.
Volek
A young man has led his whole life with his grandfather. When he was in school, he was the only one who was refused to join the Youth Brigade, since his father was sentenced to death for spying. When it is time for him to do the compulsory military service, he has to do it in a platoon for "unreliable" persons.
Corp. Plíhal
Tankový prapor (Tank Battalion) is a Czech comedy film. It was released in 1991. The movie represented the first privately produced movie in Czech Republic. It was a blockbuster. Today, the movie is perceived as a classic, it is the most acclaimed movie of his creator, director Vit Olmer, it starred Lukáš Vaculík, a popular star of youth movies in the main role, as well as the by-then well received comedian Miroslav Donutil.
Three intertwined stories about Serbian truck driver who is involved into drug trafficking without knowing, Czech family who live by the road which makes them a lot of troubles since many cars crash into their house, and a bus full of Swedish grannies who go on a Trans-European package holiday.
Karel
