Marek Daniel

Casting is stressful. Hanka, the casting director, is heading for a breakdown and her state of mind isn’t helped by the myriad whims of her actors or the unwelcome visits from her ex-husband, a desperate hypochondriac. A short comedy by Marek Najbrt with a truly stellar cast.

The devil's magic quill keeps a tight record of sins. But when this precious artifact is stolen, a demon must find a way to make things right again.

After her husband's death, Hana lives on alone in the family villa. Her two sons visit her with their families, but these visits frequently end in quarrels. When Hana meets Brona, a hardy fellow, inured to winter swimming, a new world opens before her. Brona's team-mates absorb her into their team and Hana gradually learns to overcome her fear of icy water. Her relation with Brona grows into love.

“The fact that I’m playing myself doesn’t mean that it’s me.” Four old schoolmates, today well-known Czech actors (Pavel Liška, Tomáš Matonoha, Josef Polášek and Marek Daniel), decide to make a movie together. Their ambitious colleague Jan Budař takes up directing duties and financing has arrived from Poland. What started out pleasantly enough, however, soon goes awry. Liška’s pronunciation difficulties, Daniel’s alter ego Havlát, and Matonoha’s financial machinations turn the shoot into a fight for survival. More than just a film about friendship and the absurdity of actors’ lives, director Marek Najbrt gives us a witty meditation on reality and illusion, and a unique take on the reality film genre. One of Pavel Liška’s on-set comments (“I didn’t know if I should act as if I were acting, or act as if I weren’t acting, or just not act at all”) illustrates the provocative nature of Najbrt’s subversive, quasi-documentary game.

Libor, a former teacher, enjoys a well-paid position as a bank manager, living in a luxurious villa outside Prague. His business partners are taken into custody and the authorities have a few questions for him to answer. Rather than wait around, he decides to take off to Moravia with his wife and two children. In the process, he pretends that everything is normal, rediscovers the value of family life, meets up with a former colleague lost in provincial obscurity, and becomes the object of a manhunt. Libor is not a criminal type, merely someone who signs cheques and is drawn into a business world failing to recognise its own criminality (he doesn’t even flee the country).

Алоис Небель — скромный диспетчер на забытом Богом полустанке где-то на чешской границе. Вся его жизнь состоит из кормления кошки и ожидания поездов: прибытие — отправление… И уж точно никого не интересуют галлюцинации Алоиса Небеля. А между тем, они ужаснули бы любого психиатра. Однажды Алоис и герой его видений встречаются прямо на перроне…

A Czech journalist joins a Prague radio station what broadcasts Nazi propaganda in order to protect his Jewish wife. However, as the Nazi rule over Czechoslovakia calls for more and more collaboration, his relationship with his wife spirals downward.

В тихую сельскую местность из Праги приезжает новый школьный учитель. Никто не может понять, что делает этот хорошо воспитанный, блестящий молодой преподаватель естественных наук, которого обожают дети в их тихой глубокой дыре. Несмотря на то, что учителю уже за тридцать, он по-прежнему, как юноша, верит в любовь и ищет любовь. С женщинами он ее не нашел, с мужчиной также не вышло. Он решает оставить Прагу и свои поиски, надеясь найти в деревне покой и счастье. Но от себя не убежишь — внезапно он понимает, что по уши влюбился в семнадцатилетнего юношу, с матерью которого у него установились теплые дружеские отношения. Но это только для него отношения дружеские — вдова влюблена в учителя, не догадываясь, что он гей. После того, как юноша расстается со своей подругой, учитель предлагает ему взяться за ум, помочь поступить в столичный ВУЗ. Между учеником и учителем возникает дружба, которой так не хватало обоим.

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?

Milan and Goran are two criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants. One night after they complete a smuggle, they discover that one of the immigrants has left a baby behind. Milan and Goran decide to sell the baby to Lubos and Eman, who are responsible for running an illegal baby adoption center. Lubos and Eman make attempts to sell the baby to Miluska and Frantisek, a barren couple.

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

A portrait of a small Moravian village and its quirky inhabitants.

Philosophical movie, staged at the least philosophical environment imaginable: A closed scenery of a nudist spot, where some hired Czech stuff is making a plain erotic movie for a rich Russian producer. Nothing in this movie is what it seems to be at the first superficial glance.

It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.