Karel Roden

The year is 1764. For over a year, Josef has been leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to become an opera composer. The city, full of talented and already-established composers, seems closed to him. Looking for work as a violinist, he comes into the orbit of a rich young woman. Thanks to her, he gets the opportunity to play at salons. But his real opportunity arises when he becomes the lover of a libertine marquise. She teaches him worldly manners, rids him of signs of a provincial upbringing and introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance. Thus transformed, Josef gets an incan incredible commission: to write an opera for the San Carlo, Europe's largest theatre.

A história do ícone tcheco do século XV e senhor da guerra Jan Zizka, que derrotou os exércitos da Ordem Teutônica e do Sacro Império Romano,

Um ciclista veterano experimenta os três dias mais dramáticos de sua vida - e potencialmente o fim de sua carreira - durante a etapa irlandesa do Tour de France de 1998.

Liesel Landauer e Hana são ligadas por uma longa amizade e uma casa excepcional, construída pelo arquiteto Von Abt para Liesel e seu marido Viktor. Quando as duas começam a se apaixonar, terão que quebrar diversas barreiras para vivenciar esse amor.

Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his girlfriend Rebecca. But when a murder forces his family's past to return to threaten them, Alex is drawn into the criminal underworld and must confront his values to protect those he loves.

Knight Borek is searching for his missing son. Enthralled by the stories of children's crusades, little Jan has run away from home. Borek's crusade is a journey into his own subconscious, where he is forced to confront his greatest fear.

In 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and he is now a man with no nation; because, as the Czechoslovak ambassador in London, he failed to win the support of the British and could not avert the fall of his country and the outbreak of the World War II.

The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.

A couple embark on an early vacation. Left alone, their children cut loose until the boy gets caught for skipping school and things take an unexpected turn. Boasting exquisite camera work, the film is also unforgettable for its wholly original ending.

Baseado em uma história real. Em 1899, uma menina é brutalmente assassinada numa aldeia no interior. Num clima de crescente antissemitismo, um jovem judeu chamado Leopold Hilsner é preso.

Angel, a woman who was horribly abused by her grandmother as a little girl and institutionalized after killing her, embarks on a killing spree as an adult. Though sentenced for the rest of her life to an insane asylum, Angel was released due to inside governmental pressure while being pronounced dead in order to avoid public outcry. Now Angel’s on the loose again, and a government agent is ordered to kill her in order to cover up the blunder.

Um príncipe Norman retorna para casa para buscar a justiça para o assassinato de seu pai, morto por seu tio, Earl Durant. Depois de ganhar a confiança e a lealdade de alguns exilados agricultores, leva a uma batalha brutal com o vilão. A sede de sangue do protagonista irá levá-lo a sacrificar tudo para consumar sua vingança.

The film follows the staging of the opera Olimpiade while at the same time exploring the dramatic life of its composer Josef Mysliveček, a friend and teacher of W. A. Mozart.

A história é livremente inspirada pela vida e obra de Jan Saudek, que é provavelmente o mais internacionalmente conhecido fotógrafo checo e tem inquestionavelmente estado envolvido no desenvolvimento da fotografia internacional. Ele expôs e vendeu o seu trabalho nas maiores galerias e casas de arte, ele ganhou reconhecimento internacional e prémios, ele goza de grande popularidade e interesse - ele é um verdadeiro fenómeno.

Story follows two best friend on private investigation. They are going to their hometown to prove that Michals mother was killed by his stepmother.

No fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial, soldados russos que passam pela região da Alemanha oriental encontram acidentalmente um laboratório nazista. Lá, cientistas fazem testes que tem como base as experiências de Dr. Frankestein, eles utilizam restos mortais de seres humanos para criar super soldados nazistas

Fogi is enjoying his never ending puberty. But simultaneously Fogi is also trying to live up to his family duties and bring up Véna, his son from the first marriage. He did not get married again but lives with Jana, a post office employee. Together they have little Anicka and they all live in a flat in a small town. At first, Jana is trying to tolerate Fogi's moods, but her patience is running out. Fogi loses his job. On top of that he starts to see himself in his adolescent son and realizes with horror that Véna repeats his own mistakes. The first fights, bans and mutual misunderstandings are approaching.

Two young technicians, Filos and Kája, come to a small village that is a bit cut off from the rest of the world in order to find the best place to install a new station for the reception of a cell phone signal. Their arrival understandably arouses a feeling of expectation among the locals, especially when they learn of the interesting financial reward for the owner of the land on which the transmitter will stand. A fight flares up in the village over this reward, and all weapons, those permitted and those not, are put into use. Of course, there is also the question of whether Filos and Kája will be able to live up to the expectations that have been placed on them. Maybe they aren't even who they claim to be...

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…

The great musical comedy by F. A. Brabec V perine is the first Czech film made entirely in 3D. This stimulating comedy, in true and thorough 3D, presents a whole new computer-made world concealed in a quilt, where a large part of the film is taking place. The film V perine is a musical comedy made in the high-spirited style of Mamma Mia. In a relaxed world, where everybody used to dance rock'n'roll and the streets were full of pink Cadillacs, good and bad dreams hidden in our quilts take form. The musical adventure culminates in the magical world of dreams.

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.

Um grupo de alpinistas descobre, durante sua escalada nas montanhas escocesas, uma criança presa em uma pequena câmara no meio da floresta. Eles acabam em um aterrorizante jogo de perseguição com os seqüestradores, na tentativa de salvar a garota.

Quando Anthony e Julian, dois fracassados e inúteis, decidem deixar seus sonhos para trás e começar uma agência de detetives, acabam dando um passo maior que a perna. O primeiro caso que cai no colo deles é proteger Catalina, uma sexy acompanhante de luxo, que tem as provas essenciais sobre um escandaloso golpe internacional. Logo, os dois detetives desajeitados se vêem às voltas com a máfia russa, um corrupto senador americano e um cruel e implacável assassino.

A visual dreamscape of Prague streets, a hallucinatory vision of a world from the operating table for robotic heart surgeries, collaged together with the stories narrated by the mysterious Dr. B, who is a gifted surgeon at the centre of a conspiracy and a criminal ring trafficking in human parts, especially hearts. Because that’s where the world has ended up – humans thirsting for endless lives and shadowy businessmen and dealmakers taking advantage of this hunger. Set to original music by Němec’s student and fellow filmmaker Petr Marek and his band Midi Lidi, the rich soundscape of the film creates a distinct counterpart to the freewheeling visuals shot digitally in 3D. The former Czech president Václav Havel makes an appearance in the film recalling a script he wrote in the 1960s with Němec, his distant cousin, which the present film utilises as a reflecting surface.

A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true events.

Anthony's family runs a small Italian restaurant in London. When his childhood friend, Dario, dies in a suspicious accident, Anthony inherits a vineyard in Sant'Angelo, the village his parents came from in Italy. Surprised by the large sum of money offered to him by a curious Italian "Master of Wine" for the land he just inherited, and considering the mysterious circumstances surrounding Dario's death, Anthony decides to drive down to Sant'Angelo. Anthony soon feels he's in the middle of something he doesn't understand and wants to leave, but... He gets tangled up in "Love's" web and suddenly finds himself the target of a crazy manhunt.

Kate e John Coleman ficam arrasados devido a um trágico aborto. Apesar de já ter dois filhos, Daniel e Maxime, o casal decide adotar uma criança. Durante uma visita a um orfanato, os dois se encantam pela pequena Esther de nove anos e optam rapidamente por sua adoção. O que eles não sabiam é que estranhos acontecimentos fazem parte do histórico da menina que passa a se tornar, dia após dia, mais misteriosa. Intrigada, Kate desconfia que Esther não é quem aparenta ser, mas devido ao seu passado de alcoolismo tem dificuldades de provar sua teoria.

Píše se 13. století. Království českému a markrabství moravskému vládne Přemysl Otakar II. Na zásnuby, které mají usmířit znesvářené rody pánů z Dubé a z Vartemberka, vysílá král svého zástupce v severních Čechách, správce královského hradu Bezdězu, Oldřicha z Chlumu (Karel Roden). Cestou na hrad najdou Oldřich a jeho pomocníci (Jan Dolanský, David Matásek) stopy po loupežné vraždě neznámého kupce. Na vartemberském panství se Oldřich setkává s Ludmilou (Klára Issová), dcerou Markvarta z Vartemberka, kterou zná od jejího dětství. Ludmila se mu svěří, že se nechce vdát za Beneše z Dubé (David Prachař), přestože jejich svatba je podmínkou křehkého míru mezi oběma rody. Během slavnostní hostiny, pořádané na Oldřichovu počest, je zavražděn purkrabí (Miloš Vávra). Podezření padne na loutnistu (Saša Rašilov), jehož snoubenku se purkrabí pokusil zneužít.

It's nighttime in Prague, 21 August 1968. Soviet troops and tanks are occupying the city - random attacks, soldiers shooting, bodies lying dead on the sidewalk. With an impromptu crew, the director (Karel Roden) captures some unique evidence - material which is, however, worthless in occupied Prague; it has to be shown to the rest of the world. So, while the Soviets are concocting false reports of heartfelt receptions without military resistance for propaganda purposes, the director sets off on a risky trip across the closed Czech-Austrian border to Vienna.

Realizado por Jérôme Salle, esta é a adaptação da novela gráfica francesa de Philippe Francq, Largo Winch que conta a história de um jovem iugoslavo órfão que viveu toda a sua infância num orfanato, agora em fase adulto vivendo num arranha-céus em Nova Iorque, Largo decide procurar as suas origens, não sabendo que ele próprio vale milhões, o que é motivo de procura para muita gente. O protagonista é desempenhado por Tomer Sisley, e quanto à obra, esta já originou um série de televisão e vários videogames.

A WW I veteran still haunted by his time in the trenches settles in a small town to work for the railroad company. His pretty wife attracts the attention of the lonely young gravedigger.

Uri Omovich é um bilionário russo que está realizando uma alta transação com Lenny Cole, um gângster à moda antiga que sabe como cuidar de seus subalternos e dos políticos locais. Para festejar o acordo feito, Uri empresta a Lenny seu quadro favorito, mas o quadro desaparece do escritório de Lenny, o que inicia uma grande busca por seu paradeiro. Isto faz com que diversos criminosos da cidade se envolvam, entre eles One Two, um bandido de rua, e Archie, o braço direito de Lenny.

A condessa Elizabeth Bathory é considerada uma das maiores assassinas da história. Após a morte do marido, ela é acusada de torturar e matar cerca de 600 vítimas, entre jovens e meninas, tendo sido julgada pela morte de 80 delas.

Julie is a woman who seemingly has everything. A handsome husband, teenage daughter and a thriving, undemanding job as a translator and now even a new dream house ... But she also has a secret that is slowly changing her idyllic life...

Mr. Bean faz uma viagem ao sul da França para um tranquilo feriado de verão. Seu passeio de Londres à Riviera transforma em verdadeira loucura todos os lugares por onde passa, culminando numa exibição não-planejada de seus vídeos amadores da viagem no cultuado Festival de Cannes.

A mysterious loner (Karel Roden) rides into a small town carrying the body of a sought-after outlaw (Val Kilmer is the corpse). But after he gambles his bounty away in a card game with the sheriff (Boguslaw Linda), he must devise a scheme to reclaim the dead man. Katarzyna Figura co-stars as a tough barmaid in Polish writer-director Piotr Uklanski's inventive and bloody Western, which both spoofs and pays tribute to the spaghetti Western genre.

Uma mulher que foi adotada quando ainda era bebê e enviada para os Estados Unidos, retorna à Rússia, sua terra natal. Ela encontra a casa na fazenda em que nasceu, e a família que nunca conheceu. Mas estranhas coisas começam a acontecer, incluindo o desaparecimento de seu guia, a manifestação de fantasmas (incluindo o dela próprio!) e o surgimento de um outro homem misterioso.

Setembro de 1944. Segunda Guerra Mundial. O Alto Comando do Exército Britânico planeja a ousada Operação Market Garden, uma tentativa desesperada de tentar terminar com o conflito antes do Natal. Nada menos que 35.000 tropas inglesas são transportadas para atrás das linhas inimigas alemãs, em plena Holanda ocupada, naquilo que seria a maior invasão aérea da história. Em meio a toda esta inacreditável logística de guerra, a pequena unidade "Matchbox" vive o seu próprio inferno. Sob fogo cerrado, sete soldados britânicos acabam se isolando do restante das tropas aliadas, e oficialmente são considerados "desaparecidos em ação". Agora, eles vão viver uma guerra muito particular, sem leis, sem planos, e sem nenhum comandante para quem prestar contas. Para estes sete homens, a Guerra será uma experiência inesquecível... mas apenas para quem conseguir sobreviver.

Joey Gazelle é um mafioso que ordena a morte de alguns policiais corruptos. Só que, ao invés de atirar a arma do crime no rio, ele resolve guardá-la no porão de sua casa. Nicky, seu filho de 10 anos, e o amigo Oleg o vêem escondendo a arma. Quando Oleg vê seu padrasto Anzor batendo em sua mãe, Mila, ele não pensa duas vezes: rouba a arma e mata o padrasto. Só que Anzor é sobrinho de um mafioso russo psicótico, que deseja a todo custo descobrir quem matou um integrante da família. Desta forma logo a máfia, os russos e a polícia estão atrás de Joey, que precisa recuperar a arma o quanto antes.

Colin Frampton is an Englishman who never stops worrying, not even on holiday in Prague. When Colin's wife is accidentally squashed by a statue, he decides that he can't face life without her. So Colin bribes Pavel to help him die. An unlikely friendship develops as Pavel's plans for Colin's death spin out of control, attracting the violent interest of local gangster Karel Karlovic.

Quando sua namorada Mimi (Elena Anaya) conta que está grávida Abe fica perdido, decidindo passar um tempo com a mãe em Madrid. Na estação de trem acidentalmente Mimi troca o celular de Abe com o de Lynch (Gary Oldman), um assassino de aluguel que se apaixona por ela à primeira vista. A troca de celulares provoca confusões para ambos, já que Abe atende uma estranha chamada com informações sobre um assassinato a ser realizado e Lynch passa a ser perseguido por Dragan (Karel Roden) e Virgil (Billy Zane), que estão atrás de Abe devido à uma dívida pendente.

Returning to their ancestral lands, descendants of a formerly aristocratic family hunt for mythical creatures that occupy the nearby wilderness.

In 1990, Alan Levy, Editor in Chief of the Prague Post, proclaimed that Prague was the "Left Bank of the 90s," -- the new European haven for American artists. Levy's herald rang out like a clarion call, summoning expatriate North Americans from Nova Scotia to the Golden Gate.

Jason Bourne está vivendo na Índia quando é enquadrado por um agente russo, Kirill, pelo roubo de milhões da CIA. Kirill começa a perseguir Bourne com a intenção de assassiná-lo, mas, por engano, mata a namorada de Bourne, Marie. Jurando vingança, Bourne se propõe a provar sua inocência e trazer os culpados à justiça.

Já perto do fim da 2ª Guerra Mundial, os nazistas tentam eliminar seus inimigos usando magia negra. Uma das experiências feitas é a tentativa de invocar forças ocultas. Um deste rituais é interrompido pelas forças aliadas, que encontram um garoto com aparência de demônio e a mão direita feita de pedra, apesar do ritual não ter sido concluído. O garoto passa a ser chamado de Hellboy e é levado pelos Aliados. Sessenta anos depois, Hellboy agora luta pelo bem e é chamado quando um estranho fenômeno, possivelmente sobrenatural, acontece.

Há 60 anos o Monge Sem Nome protege um pergaminho sagrado, que lhe concede poderes mágicos. Prestes a se aposentar, o Monge precisa agora encontrar um substituto que possa dar prosseguimento à sua tarefa. O principal candidato é Kar, um malandro das ruas egoísta que, por um coincidência do destino, acaba salvando o Monge de ser capturado.

Taking a cue from Franz Kafka's "Letter to My Father," this highly personal film follows Czech director Jan Nemec as he attempts to engage in a dialogue with his deceased mother. While alive, Nemec's mother had a troubled relationship with her son; this rumination seems to be Nemec's public platform for coming to terms with unresolved familial issues. The director embellishes his film by linking personal events with 20th century history.

Blade é um ser meio homem, meio vampiro que é consumido pelo desejo de vingança contra os seres que atacaram sua mãe antes mesmo dele nascer e fizeram com que ele se tornasse o que é atualmente. Com isso, ao crescer Blade iniciou uma verdadeira cruzada pessoal para combater e eliminar os vampiros, mas agora uma nova raça mais poderosa chamada reapers, criada a partir de cruzamentos genéticos entre humanos e vampiros, ameaça eliminar ambas as raças. Visto isso, Blade se alia aos seus maiores inimigos para que, juntos, possam combater esta nova raça de seres.

Krystof, an architect whose main priority is his job, has been living for several years with Tereza, who has a somewhat different outlook on life. Their love story reveals the distinctness and contradictory nature of each person's subjective worlds and shows how the line between dream and reality differs in each and every one of us.

Emil e Oleg são dois estrangeiros vindos da Europa Oriental que chegam aos Estados Unidos para pegar um dinheiro que tinham deixado com um amigo. Quando descobrem que ele gastou tudo, Emil o mata e Oleg filma tudo. Então, eles têm uma ideia: fazer de Emil o astro de um filme dirigido por Oleg no qual terá de assassinar uma importante pessoa da cidade. E o alvo é justamente Eddie Fleming, o policial mais famoso da cidade.

Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.

Two half-siblings Jana and Miroslav are ineffectually trying to escape their mutual attraction and break free from their fatal relationship. Two time levels, presence and 1970s, inter-mesh in the film.

A four-story omnibus depicting different Czech slices-of-life from the titular city.

An intimate psychological film which elaborates the Faustian theme about the dispute between the body and the soul - a study on human identity. Two young doctors carry out the surgical exchange of the brains of two women who are dying after a car accident - a young girl and member of a criminal gang, and a lonely seventy-year-old associate professor of oriental studies. The young girl wakes from the operation thinking like the elderly intellectual and tries in vain to live with her new identity. (https://www.filmovyprehled.cz/en/film/22344/double-role)

After two troubled but powerful men rape a young hitchhiker who happens to be a vet, she drugs them and removes their testicles.

Police officer Jack Wild discovers that the well-known international terrorist Hans Becker is on a train, carrying a wealthy business man and his girlfriend. Without a second to loose Jack hires a helicopter to drop him down onto the train to try and stop whatever scheme Becker is planning.

The Dragon Ring is an italian film of two parts. It's about Desideria, the dragon king's daughter and Selvaggia, her adopted and magical sister. To get the dragon ring after the death of her father, Desideria needs to marry, but she can't find a husband, so Selvaggia sees her chance to get the ring with all its powers.

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.

The full-length film which, though based on Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, is more about the complexity of the time and the world. We witness the creation of a modern production of Don Giovanni, reflecting the controversial present. Mozart's exciting music, uninhibited erotic, and the eternal struggle against evil which constitutes the energy of our existence.

Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state.

Dana is young medical student with no self esteem, she can't deal with life, people and even not with herself. After her boyfriend leaves her, she changes to selfish woman, manipulating people and making them to serve her. She plays with her husband, neighbors and friends - for her own good and for fun.

A tribe of survivors take possession of a large but rundown building, killing all who put up resistance - but they don't know that the building is cursed by some demon god and haunted by a girl in white that seems to know a dark secret.

Pan Tau, the friend of all children, now also helps the adults. A movie producer is in trouble and decides to shoot another Pan-Tau movie. But the old Pan-Tau actor Karasek is no longer young enough to walk the almost weightless walk of Pan Tau. Mr. Novak turns up - he resembles Pan Tau like a twin brother. He succeeds every pirouette. And as if by magic, he solves all the problems between people! Who is Mr. Novak? Is he really ...?

Zatímco Kendy se jako pomocný režisér vrací do rodného města natáčet s televizním štábem třináctidílný seriál, Štěpán Šafránek, vybaven po promoci maminčinými radami, nastupuje na své první místo - na internu zdejší nemocnice. Jeho nepřizpůsobivost místním poměrům a smysl pro etiku zvoleného povolání však příliš nevyhovuje ostatním už zaběhnutým kolegům. Zatímco ti se škodolibě baví jeho horlivostí a zodpovědností, Štěpán má stále větší problémy s nadřízenými, až je nakonec přesunut na všemi odmítané místo venkovského obvodního lékaře. V Bezdíkově však potkává novou, snad už trvalou a opětovanou lásku, s níž se posléze rozhodne žít a pracovat v severních Čechách. (oficiální text distributora)

A story about a young medical school student and his adventures.

Technical school student Pavel Brychta, arrives at a youth correctional facility located within a chateau in Konečno. He is an atypical, but not hopeless case for the institution. Pavel comes from a well-off family and his antisocial behaviour on the verge of criminality was some kind of response to his difficult relationship with his authoritative father. However, it takes quite some effort for Pavel to find his place in this environment of bullying, and also diverse methods from the tutors

Fifteen years after being the cause of an alleged love suicide there, writer Paul Herzog returns to Prague where he meets Clarissa, the sister of the deceased woman. When a couple of mysterious deaths occur amongst people who were close to Clarissa and her sister, Paul becomes the prime suspect...

A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.