Anna (1987)

Georgi Koskov (Jeroen Krabbé), um general dissidente da União Soviética, escapa da Cortina de Ferro com a ajuda de James Bond (Timothy Dalton), mas logo é recapturado através de uma sensacional missão de resgate, que transforma o Serviço Secreto Inglês em uma grande chacota. A partir de então, 007 assume o caso e vê fatos surpreendentes ao conhecer Kara Milovy (Maryam d'Abo), uma violoncelista tcheca com quem se envolve. Bond acaba descobrindo uma grande trama ligada a Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker), um grande comerciante de armamento bélico.

Durante a ocupação nazista da Checoslováquia, o cirurgião Dr. Franticek Svoboda, um patriota checo, assassina o brutal "Carrasco da Europa", o Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich e é ferido no processo. Na tentativa de escapar, ele é ajudado pelo professor de história Stephen Novotny e sua filha Mascha. Versão totalmente ficcional do episódio. Foi o único projeto Hollywoodiano bem sucedido de Bertolt Brecht; o dinheiro que recebeu permitiu escrever "As visões de Simone Marchand", "Schwyk na Segunda Guerra Mundial" e a adaptação da "Duquesa de Malfi" de Webster. Hanns Eisler ganhou um Oscar por sua partitura musical. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

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 film adaptation of the novelette of the same title written by Dominik Tatarka depicts the life of a young generation of artists that was formed in Slovakia during the war. Anabella, a young and beautiful girl meets a group of artists. She awakens their erotic desires but also pure feelings of love; she becomes the object of their secret fantasies as well as their artistic inspiration. And it seems that the boundaries between reality and fantasy suddenly cease to exist.

Este documentário narra as retaliações feitas contra alemães no Leste Europeu, com o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Testemunhas destes horrores descrevem que civis foram vítimas de estupros, espancamentos e limpeza étnica.

Czechoslovakia, 1941. As the war continues, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Nazi-occupied Prague and establishes a regime of terror that will force freedom fighters to act. But the price to pay will be too high.

A day in the life of Arnošt, a soldier staying in Josefov. A sense of desperation permeates the environment as well as the mind of the protagonist. It is sunday, and saturday left just a hangover. Days go by, nothing changes. A metaphor for the political situation in the Czech lands at a time where depicting a soldier as a drunk was considered out of place to say the least.

A obra se concentra na vida de Anna (Judit Bárdos), uma atleta com pretensões olímpicas e seu drama para se emancipar em plena ditadura Tchecoslovaca. A trama orbita sobre a dificuldade de Anna em lidar com a mãe (Anna Geilerová), uma ex atleta, e com a rigidez de seu treinador respaldado pela ditadura e suas obscuras intenções políticas.

A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dis­patcher at the small railway station in Bílý Potok, a remote village on the Czech–Polish border. He's a loner, who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the loneliness of the station tranquil – except when the fog rolls in. Then he hallucinates, sees trains from the last hundred years pass through the station. They bring ghosts and shadows from the dark past of Central Eu­rope. Alois can’t get rid of these nightmares and eventually ends up in sanatorium. In the sanatorium, he gets to know The Mute, a man carrying an old photograph who was arrested by the police after crossing the border. No one knows why he came to Bílý Potok or who he’s looking for, but it is his past that propels Alois on his journey…

Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family to the big city and becomes an enterprising vacuum cleaner salesman. There he embarks on a series of adulterous adventures, has encounters with boxing pros and famous portrait artists, and schemes to purchase the perfect pond to fulfill his passion for fishing. When the Nazis gain control, the comedy turns sour - he loses his lake, his job, and finally, his family.

Two female clerks using up their savings to enjoy a few days of carefree life, two plumbers looking for an erotic adventure, a building contractor determined to drink away all wages of his workers and a former major who became an alcoholic due to political persecution — these people meet in a ski resort bar somewhere in the High Tatras. During one night they gradually reveal their unfulfilled dreams, illusions and disappointments of ”average" people of those times.

No mês de agosto de 1968 uma unidade do exército da República Popular da Polônia é enviada em uma "missão de ajuda fraterna" para a Tchecoslováquia. A unidade avança lentamente e seu tanque "Joaninha" desaparece logo após cruzar a fronteira. A suboficial Grążlowa (Eva Halubova), acompanhada por seu marido ciumento, pega uma moto e conduz uma perseguição tentando evitar ser punida pela bagunça de sua unidade. Ao mesmo tempo, ela quer pegar e humilhar seu amante, Romek (Przemyslaw Bluszcz), que havia a humilhado pouco antes da invasão.

British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory where it is being manufactured.

This light comedy finds a Czech taxi driver taking his family on a weekend outing in the country. His wife, daughter-in-law, son and two grandchildren are the passengers who disturb the solitude of two young lovers. While the women attend the horse races, the father sits home getting drunk and watching football. The overweight daughter-in-law is upset because she has blown her chances to become a ballerina. All members of the family are caught up in their own individual problems in this realistically portrayed family comedy

Laid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger generation. The two groups must live together, but it's not easy at all.

"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."

Czech refugee Krystyna travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna. After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna finds that celebrity often doesn't travel well, and she must go through a battery of humiliating auditions to try and get work in her adopted land. But when Krystyna and Anna finally meet, they provide a support structure for each other.

In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.

After an attack against the guard of the Third Reich, Nazi repression intensifies, and the Czechoslovakian resistance's organized sabotage in an aircraft factory leads to Gestapo shootings.

An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her shop, she sometimes doubles as a fortune teller. When Jan, a Czechoslovakian jazz musician and Elsa's old lover comes to town to perform at a "peace and friendship festival", her well-organised life is jolted out of balance.