Rudolf Biermann

Josef is a writer aged sixty, who thinks that nothing can surprise him any more. One evening, though, his phone rings and he finds himself caught up in a series of events that turn his world upside-down. His best friend – also a writer – tries to commit suicide; his young girlfriend Katka tells him she’s pregnant; and the man with hare ears – his alter ego from one of his stories – appears to him in everyday situations.

Somewhere under the mountains, the country is dominated by high-ranking criminals, people linked to politics, the mafia, but also to the police, the courts, and the big business. The ...

Somewhere under the mountains, the country is dominated by high-ranking criminals, people linked to politics, the mafia, but also to the police, the courts, and the big business. The ...

Liesel Landauer and her friend Hana are linked by a lifelong relationship and an exceptional house built by the architect Von Abt for Liesel and her husband Viktor in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s.

초대 체코슬로바키아 대통령의 아들이자 외교관과 외무부 장관이었지만 그 죽음은 아직도 비밀로 남겨져 있는 얀 마사리크의 삶을 담아내고 있다. 하지만 얀 마사리크의 삶에도 많은 비밀이 숨겨져 있다. 그는 후회없이 인생을 즐겼으며 여자와 음악을 사랑했다. 그의 마음에는 불타오르는 예술가의 혼과 외교관으로서의 도덕성이 계속 충돌했다. 이 극적인 이야기는 제2차 세계대전이 시작되기 직전으로 거슬러 올라간다. 30년대에 마사리크의 외교 경력은 최고조를 찍었다. 그는 영국에 거주하며 강대국들을 설득해 체코슬로바키아 편에 서서 독일의 침략을 막으려고 노력한다. 훌륭한 연설가, 평생 함께할 재밌고도 사랑스러운 동반자, 삶을 실컷 즐기는 사람으로 칭송받던 그도 어두운 면을 가지고 있었다. 그는 알코올, 약물 그리고 지속적인 자해로 자신의 이름이 주는 책임과 자신의 삶에서 도피하려고 한다. 당시 주영체코대사로 있던 그가 공식석상에 나타나지 않았으며 외교 관계자 및 친구와도 관계를 끊는다. 그렇게 몇 달간 미국 어딘가로 사라진다. 이 영화는 역사적인 배경을 바탕으로 매력적이면서도 불안정하고 자신의 삶을 망치는 남자와 조국의 미래를 위한 그의 헛된 투쟁에 관한 스릴 넘치는 이야기다.

Four very different people live in the same building but avoid each other because of differences in how they live their lives, what they believe in, and where they come from. They would probably never exchange a word, but misfortune pushes them towards each other. Their lives entangle in ways that profoundly challenge deep-held beliefs and prejudices surrounding material status, sexual orientation, nationality and religion. Slowly, and even painfully, they begin to open up to each other and recognize the essential humanity each of them possesses.

An adaptation of a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh is a comedy about friendship, fateful loves, beauty and ugliness, alcohol, and the search for human happiness. The plot revolves around three friends - Jeff, Skippy and Tom - whose ups and downs and relationship breakups keep bringing them back to a shared bachelor apartment. Their counterparts in the story are two women - the class beauty Eva, who becomes the object of desire of all three guys in turn, and the ugly Hujerova, whose ironic attitude to herself and life in general gives her the ability to survive in a world that prizes beauty and to find her own path to happiness. - Czech film center

Based on a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh, Angels of everyday focuses on a few intimate family members: a recently widowed young doctor Ester; a school canteen cook and her son; a driving instructor, his wife, and their closest relatives.

열대 휴가를 떠난 두 중년 커플의 유쾌한 섹스 코미디!!온드라와 비텍은 수년동안 회사 동료이자 룸메이트였고, 그들의 아내들과 아이들은 친구처럼 지내왔다. 하지만, 온드라 비텍은 중년으로 들어서며 자신들의 부인을 사랑하지만 열정적으로 섹스하던 때를 그리워하며 서로를 위로한다. 카브리해에서 휴가를 떠난 두 커플. 휴가지에서 지루함을 느끼던 온드라와 비텍은 서로의 부인에게서 눈길이 떠나지 않는데..

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…

Operation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968. The fleet of Polish tanks which arrive to liberate their neighbor, ostensibly threatened by a counter-revolution, includes the old tank nicknamed Ladybird, which is the last to leave the barracks.

A Theatrical Documentary Synopsis "Inside Hana's Suitcase", is the poignant story of two young children who grew up in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia and the terrible events that they endured just because they happened to be born Jewish. Based on the internationally acclaimed book "Hana's Suitcase" which has been translated into 40 languages

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.

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.

지하철 광고판에 독특한 카피가 눈길을 끈다. 카피는 순전히 한 여자에 대한 남자의 사랑 고백… 어느 새 유명해진 이 글을 그녀도 역시 보고 있을까? 그녀, 이 러브레터의 주인공은 다름아닌 미모의 아가씨 라우라! 하지만 그녀에게 사랑은 미용실에서 머리 모양을 바꾸는 것 만큼이나 손쉬운 일이다. 맘에 드는 남자가 있으면 바꾸면 그만! 더 멋진 남자, 더 끌리는 남자가 바로 내 남자. 하지만 천방지축 라우라에게 만만치 않은 상대가 나타났으니 시니컬한 매력과 지적인 향기가 배어나는 연륜 있는 남자, 올리베라 한편, 라우라의 엄마 야나는 프리랜서 번역가! 딸만큼이나 자유분방하고 영어를 즐겨 쓰며 명품 가방을 좋아하는 그녀의 꿈은 사랑하는 남자를 만나 행복하게 사는 것. 단,지저분하고 매너 없는 체코 남자는 사양이다. 한때 근사한 오페라 극장에 운동화와 스웨터를 걸치고 나왔던 그 녀석 때문일까… 두 모녀에게 어느 날 청천벽력 같은 사건이 벌어진다. 딸의 새로운 남자친구가 20년 전 내가 찼던 그 폭탄…? 철없고 발칙하지만 깜찍하고 발랄한 두 모녀 … 이들은 진정 사랑을 찾을 수 있을까?

Poetic movie about 3 generations of women.

In Slovakia, the sixteen year-old Terezka is discharged from her school with a letter to her mother. Along her surrealistic journey to find her mother, Terezka entwines reality and fantasy and meets a man that is hired to burn clothes; a woman buried on the ground; a young bride that is marrying the forty and something year-old widow of his brother to support her family as a tradition in their village; her younger brother that is intern in a special school; a decadent TV comedian and his wife; a powerful mobster in the kitchen of a restaurant; one lover of her mother in her former address; and finally her promiscuous mother that advises her to travel through the world.

Jakub's life arrived at a dead-end. He leaves his job, and gets into conflict with his father. The trouble just grows by his relation with a married woman. Breaking out, Jakub realizes the pleasures of the countryside in the old garden of his grandfather. He finds true love with an angel, and encounters various exciting moments of his new free life. Strange visitors arrive, and he wont get back to town anymore.

A film about the uncertainties faced by a man in post-Communist Slovakia, his relationship with a teenage son and English teacher girlfriend who's soon to return home to England.

At the centre of Peter Patzak's existentialist film noir stands the hopeless struggle against the arms mafia in Czechoslovakia and its connections with Austria after the fall of the iron curtain.