Jan Klusák

Documentary about the making of Vera Chytilová's film DAISIES

Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always discreet and use what he learns to his own advantage; but the turbulent tides of history will continually stand in his way.

A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaborating with the secret police, Jaroslav Foglar can’t find a bottle-opener, and Ivan Diviš makes observations about his own funeral. This is the Czech Republic in the late 90s, as detailed in Karel Vachek’s documentary.

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the stationmaster. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes hold and everyone’s worst instincts are released. Interrogations, the abolition of rights and the search for scapegoats ultimately lead to murder

An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughter's cheek.

A three-part depiction of various forms of communication.

In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse: The brother's senses have become painfully acute, while his sister has become nearly catatonic.

Documentary short about the title composer, born in what was called "Czechoslovakia" when the film was made.

A meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.

This original adaptation of Oscar Wilde's sad, socially conscious fairy tale, The Happy Prince, hinges on the conflict between fact and dream, reality and poetry. The contrast is reinforced by the film's visuals, confronting modern art with Gustave Doré's old engravings.

In modern hospitals are carried out intensive cardiac surgery. Daily operations individually comments attendant Cajthaml ... Stylized ,, dream "scene are combined with documentary footage of actual operations, which were filmed at the University Hospital in Hradec Králové. The unique cinematic experiment theater and TV director after only a few years remind viewers.

할머니와 함께 사는 10대 소녀 발레리는 마을 축제가 다가오면서 성적으로 각성하게 되고 혼란을 느낀다. 이글이라는 청년으로부터 한쌍의 귀걸이를 선물받으면서 발레리의 환상은 현실과 뒤섞이고 악몽이 된다. 발레리는 자신의 부모가 야수의 모습을 감춘 주교라고 상상하게 되고 할머니는 그녀의 상상 속에서 흡혈귀가 된다. 사제가 그녀를 겁탈하기 위해 뒤를 쫓고...

평범한 생활을 하던 에바는 남편에 대한 싫증으로 비밀에 싸인 남자 로버트의 유혹을 받아들여 여행을 떠난다. 그녀는 여행 중에 왜 많은 사람들이 불행한 관계에서 벗어나지 못한 채 살아가는지 이해하려고 한다. 영화는 우화적인 이야기와 시각적 콜라주의 실험적이고 과감한 결합을 보여주며 남자와 여자의 끝없는 싸움을 그려낸다. 동시에 남자와 여자가 삶을 공유하면서 결혼에 대한 진실까지 함께 받아들일 수 있는지 질문한다. 1970년 칸영화제 경쟁 부문 상영.

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.

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.

A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the pastor, and tries to embarrass him in various ways, including being caught with the local girl, Majka.

A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana's father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts...

An animated Gothic tale based on Gérard de Nerval’s short story about a young man crossed in love, who asks the wizard Gonin for help and suffers the consequences.

세계 대전이 있은 지 수년이 지난 후 문명세계는 멸망했다 자연은 시간이 지나자 회복하여 맑은 공기와 무수한 동물들의 낙원을 만들었지만 인류의 문명은 망가진 채로 방치되었다 전쟁 전 세상을 기억하는 늙은 여인은 전쟁 후 새롭게 태어난 소녀들과 함께 사라져버린 '남자'라는 생명체를 찾고 있다 늙은 여인은 아이들에게 생존에 필요한 지식을 알려주지만 문명 없는 세상에서 소녀들은 소녀가 아닌 야만에 길들여진 생명체일 뿐이다 그러던 어느 날 소녀들은 들판의 젖소를 사냥하다 늙은 남자를 만나게 된다 늙은 남자는 늙은 여자와 소녀들을 자신의 거처인 오존호텔로 안내한다

This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, the three protagonists are a complete antithesis of the industrious heroes of socialist aesthetics. Martyrs of Love cemented Nemec’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their ideology.

This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, the three protagonists are a complete antithesis of the industrious heroes of socialist aesthetics. Martyrs of Love cemented Nemec’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their ideology.

Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via discussions both with the patient and with people who know him, tries to find out what made the young and seemingly satisfied man decide to end his own life. Jan's pretty wife Jana (Jana Brejchová) claims not to know about anything but she is conducting an affair with a family friend, almost publicly and with the blessing of her parents.

한 무리의 남녀들이 숲 속에서 피크닉을 즐기고 있다. 그런 그들 앞에 루돌프라는 남자와 일행들이 나타나 끌고 간다. 루돌프는 남녀들을 한 자리에다 묶어두고 장난치다가 파티 주최자인 중년 남성에게 혼나고, 남녀들은 중년 남성을 따라 숲 속 파티장으로 이동한다. 이윽고 파티가 시작하려던 도중 한 여자의 남편이 파티장을 떠났다는 사실이 밝혀진다.

마리라는 똑같은 이름을 가진 두 소녀는 세상이 썩었다고 생각한 나머지 일탈 행위를 즐기며 자신들만의 삶을 영위하려 한다. 그러나 자신들의 생각이 틀렸다는 결론에 도달한 두 소녀는 어떤 선택을 내린다. 관습을 깨뜨리는 몽타주와 이미지의 왜곡 등 다양한 영화 장치를 통해 무정부주의적 유머를 선사하는 베라 히틸로바의 초기 대표작.

A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and death, set amidst complex hospital apparatus and the sadness, hope, or resignation of the patients. Existentialist rather than optimist, the approach is one of humanistic atheism, accepting death as part of life. Interviews with doctors and nurses explore their outlook; all speak of death as a fact, without either sentimentality or religiosity. The studied objectivity of the film only imperfectly hides an intense emotionality.

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly, or watched them cowardly and in silence. They are trying to repress their feelings of guilt and justify their behavior to the young generation with memories of their heroic war feats. Michal, however, does not want to have anything to do with their problems. He subconsciously perceives the unpleasant atmosphere in the family as well as his father's hypocrisy. After one of many quarrels with his father, he runs away from home, determined to go his own way.

A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world.

It is the depths of winter and in the middle of a desolate landscape on a snowy slope stands a log cabin, inhabited by an old man. The man puts his last log into his stove and the warmth of the fire visibly delights him. He rocks his rocking chair energetically and sings merrily. The flames die away and the old man looks around for something to put on the fire. In the end he sacrifices the chair, but soon that too is burnt up. The man tears the remnants of posters from the walls, gathers various rags and throws everything into the stove. Then he takes an axe and gradually chops up the wooden walls of his house, although it is obvious that he cannot win this duel with cruel nature. The fire gradually eats up the planks and beams until the cabin entirely collapses. The man wants to get warm, and so runs around the dying flames. (https://www.filmovyprehled.cz/en/film/396670/the-log-cabin)

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends to his job as a television repairman, Slavek fondly remembers how he first met Ivana and the days they spent getting to know one another. Slavek also grows increasingly aware of the environment that surrounds him and questions the society his new child will be entering. Loaded with a repeated plea for social change, this is the first feature from Czech writer/director Jaromil Jires.

A short documentary about the work of railwaymen and life on the railway.

마르타는 주목받는 젊은 모델이다. 영화는 마르타의 바쁜 작업 과정과 일상의 활기찬 생활을 기록하는 한편, 그 사이에 종종 찾아오는 마르타의 무표정을 가만히 포착한다. 한 인물에 대한 다큐멘터리적 접근이 돋보이는 베라 히틸로바의 초기 단편.

In a rare instance of literary adaptation, Chytilová was inspired by Franz Kafka’s writings. Mr. K stashes stolen jewelry away at home and seldom allows his wife to wear it. A nosy neighbour, Mr. B, drops in. A cat observes it all.

This epic adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo was directed by Henri Fescourt, and stars Jean Angelo, Lil Dagover, Pierre Batcheff, the beautiful Marie Glory, and Bernhard Goetzke as the Abbé Faria.