Martin Huba

“A burned-out group of Brno intellectuals decides to go to Kolochava in Ukraine to perform ‘A Ballad for a Bandit’ there.” With these words, the author's collective presents their film, in which they use primarily documentary imagery to compose a lyrical grotesque about an epochal trip, which might be their goal. But it doesn't have to be. The main tool of expression here is the film’s edit, which places various shots, statements, and meanings next to each other, often in a sort of productive conflict. Just like in a poem, the “poetic function” of art and its ability to serve as the primary tool for expressing beauty is manifested in full force before our very eyes.

On 26 September 1928, Karel Capek and President T.G. Masaryk meet in the gardens of Topolcianky castle to decide about the fate of their joint literary work. Their fiction film dialogue is based on quotes from a future book and their mutual correspondence, considerably freeing the original format of literary conversation from binding conventions. Capek and Masaryk reproach and offend each other, but they also ask key personal questions and questions about the social functions of a writer and politician respectively. "It's a film about two extraordinary men; it's about the fact that emotions can be sometimes more powerful than ideas even in such exceptional people.

2차 세계 대전이 발발할 무렵 큰 꿈을 품고 베를린에 온 한 여배우. 그러나 요제프 괴벨스와의 만남은 그녀의 삶을 송두리째 바꿔 놓는다.

An opera troupe in a small town decides to perform Mozart's Don Giovanni. The view behind the scenes uncovers the world of opera without the glitter. A tale of love and disappointment, about music and passionate love-making and about people that live their lives in spite of the opera.

유명한 정신과 의사인 파벨 요세크는 공산주의 정권에 대한 저항 운동으로 국가에서 상을 수여받을 예정이었다. 하지만 그의 인생에 관한 다큐멘터리를 촬영하는 동안 사실은 그가 비밀경찰과 협력했으며 당시 아내의 남자친구였던 예술가 보르제크가 강제 이민하도록 의사로서 주요 정보를 유출한 것이 드러났다. 점차 표면 위로 진실이 떠 오르고 진실은 그동안 보여지던 것과 사뭇 다른데…

A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls.

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.

어머니의 장례식장에서 돌아오는 길에 후작의 초대를 받아 그의 성에 머물던 장 베를로트는 우연히 신성모독적인 의식과 난교 장면을 목격한다. 후작은 충격과 혐오감으로 성을 떠나려는 베를로트에게 그가 앓고 있는 공포를 치유하자고 권유하며 뮐로프 박사가 운영하는 정신병원으로 데려간다. 그 곳에서 그는 간호사 샤를로트를 만나고, 과거에 병원에서 일어났던 사건들을 알게 된다.

Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or can they?

The nurse Helga meets Baltic nobleman Arno when he's wounded in the Russo-Finnish war. They have a short but passionate affair before Arno is called back to the front and dies. Helga has a daughter, Dorli, as a result of the affair and they have to struggle to survive after the Red Army wins the war.

1943년, 체코의 한 아름답고 평화로운 마을에 사는 조셉과 마리 부부. 행복하기 그지 없는 이들 부부에게 한 가지 아쉬움이 있다면 조셉이 불임이어서 아이가 없다는 것이다. 그러던 어느날, 다비드라는 이름의 유태인 청년이 부부의 빈방으로 숨어들면서 전쟁이 시작된다. 소심한 조셉에겐 감당하기 어려운 사건이었지만, 겁에 질려 큰 눈을 껌벅이는 청년을 외면할 수 없었다. 이제 이들 부부에게는 히틀러 모습의 나치 끄나풀인 호스트가 경계 대상 1호가 된다. 사실 조셉은 눈치를 못 채고 있지만 마리를 짝사랑하던 호스트가 시도 때도 없이 부부의 집을 방문하곤 했던 것. 그를 막지 못하면 유태인 청년과 마을 전체가 학살당할 위험에 처하게 되는데...

Oligophrenic Fany (Bohdalová) lives with her aunt who suddenly manages to travel abroad. Fany has to move to her sister (Jirásková). Two very different women, one mentally disabled and the second one intelligent doctor has to live together and learn from each other about tolerance, loneliness, life and why call dogs "Mister".

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.

A funny outlaw tale inspired by traditional folk humour. Pacho is no ordinary outlaw. He detests injustice and feudal oppression and he copes with each troublesome situation with the help of his cleverness and wit.

A girl is transformed into a maple tree by her impulsive and angry mother. Three poor wandering musicians come by the tree and create instruments from it. Walking around the country instead of happiness they bring death everywhere with their cursed instruments. However they cannot get rid of them, unless they bury the wooden instruments at the place of the tree. The three are anything but harmonious, each taking in their disputes various stances.

Zivorad, unassuming young man from the village, is 'pushed' from his uncle to high positions, becoming a police inspector who is looking for hashish, a scientist, a man who rises agriculture land and whatnot...

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