Self
An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.
Interviewee
One of the best Czech composers of film soundtracks is often described as a genius of film scores. He was not afraid to experiment and the timelessness of his work is proven by the admiration of the world, including the generation who came to know his music only after his death.
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Himself
The filmmakers revisit some of the shooting locations of THE CREMATOR with director Juraj Herz and chronicles the making of the 1969 film.
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Немецкая драма, основанная на реальных событиях, рассказывает историю жизни одного человека на фоне военных сражений. За три года до второй мировой войны, в небольшой деревушке, владелец завода немец Август Хаберманн женится на чешке Яне, молодой и красивой девушке, но наполовину еврейке. Хаберманну нет дела до политики, он безумно любит молодую жену, но война диктует свои правила.
Director
A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events.
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Director
Провокационный абсурдистский эротический фильм рассказывает о таинственных похождениях молодого человека, заблудившегося в лабиринтах пассажа города Праги.
Plafond
Окружённый лживыми и заискивающими придворными беспечно живёт глупый Король. Его голова занята лишь нарядами. А делами королевства заведует жадная Герцогиня. Налоги огромны, тюрьмы переполнены, народ возмущён. Чтобы открыть королю глаза на творящийся в государстве произвол, придворный портной Лоренцо и уличный бродяга Тобиас пускаются на отчаянную хитрость. Волшебная ткань, невидимая для глупцов, всего лишь дерзкая выдумка. Но именно она заставит Короля обратить внимание на свой народ. Только если у него хватит смелости выйти к людям голым, Король, наконец, узнаёт правду о своих придворных.
Director
Окружённый лживыми и заискивающими придворными беспечно живёт глупый Король. Его голова занята лишь нарядами. А делами королевства заведует жадная Герцогиня. Налоги огромны, тюрьмы переполнены, народ возмущён. Чтобы открыть королю глаза на творящийся в государстве произвол, придворный портной Лоренцо и уличный бродяга Тобиас пускаются на отчаянную хитрость. Волшебная ткань, невидимая для глупцов, всего лишь дерзкая выдумка. Но именно она заставит Короля обратить внимание на свой народ. Только если у него хватит смелости выйти к людям голым, Король, наконец, узнаёт правду о своих придворных.
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Feature film.
Magician
Feature film.
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Feature film.
Director
When a young princess, instead of being fully dedicated to her love, persists in running around like a tomboy and roaming the forests with her gang, and a young prince refuses to give up all his vices and mischief, an aquaphobic fairy takes their fate into her hands. The princess then falls in love with the prince, who declares eternal fidelity to her. When he however breaks this promise, the fairy turns him into a frog. With which the loyalty of the princess is being tested as well.
Director
When rumors spread about a "child prodigy" among the Mozarts in Salzburg, the archbishop orders an investigation in which the seven-year-old Wolfgang has to demonstrate his talent before a committee of scholars. Soon afterwards, Leopold Mozart and his son are traveling all over Europe to play for patrons and admirers. The new Archbishop of Salzburg, Count Colloredo, is not very enthusiastic about Mozart and dismisses him. Mozart marries Constanze Weber, settles in Vienna and has his first successes, earning him commissions and the goodwill of Josef II. In the last years of his life, his situation worsens; Mozart runs into financial difficulties and health problems, but still works incessantly.
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narrator
A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.
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A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.
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A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.
Director
A comedy about Simon, an honest, clever confectioner. In practical life, the humble bachelor becomes an easy prey to his boss, his mother, and hordes of women eager to get married. The story incorporates well-tested methods of nearly all major periods in the history of film comedy: from a lumierish etude with the garden hose to a melancholic tramp to the menace of the streets Jacques Tati. Director Juraj Herz made a major contribution to the modest tradition of Slovak film comedy.
Dracula in silent film
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A scientist convinces him that human blood is being used as fuel for Mima's ever winning car, but does that really work?
Writer
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A scientist convinces him that human blood is being used as fuel for Mima's ever winning car, but does that really work?
Director
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A scientist convinces him that human blood is being used as fuel for Mima's ever winning car, but does that really work?
The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to fool the boss and earned a death sentence. The convict runs away from the killer through Vienna to Prague, which his Austrian colleague in crime recommended as a safe hiding place. None of them knows that the Czechs learned so much tricks under real socialism that a seasoned Italian professional is not enough to watch.
Screenplay
The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to fool the boss and earned a death sentence. The convict runs away from the killer through Vienna to Prague, which his Austrian colleague in crime recommended as a safe hiding place. None of them knows that the Czechs learned so much tricks under real socialism that a seasoned Italian professional is not enough to watch.
Director
The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to fool the boss and earned a death sentence. The convict runs away from the killer through Vienna to Prague, which his Austrian colleague in crime recommended as a safe hiding place. None of them knows that the Czechs learned so much tricks under real socialism that a seasoned Italian professional is not enough to watch.
Writer
A divorced single mother romances a young slaughterhouse worker, must to the chagrin of her ex-husband.
A divorced single mother romances a young slaughterhouse worker, must to the chagrin of her ex-husband.
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A divorced single mother romances a young slaughterhouse worker, must to the chagrin of her ex-husband.
Screenplay
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine men's hearts.
New Astrologer
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine men's hearts.
Director
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine men's hearts.
Screenplay
Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father. She goes to an enchanted castle in the woods and meets Netvor, a bird-like monster. As Netvor begins to fall in love with Julie, he must suppress his beastly urge to kill her.
Director
Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father. She goes to an enchanted castle in the woods and meets Netvor, a bird-like monster. As Netvor begins to fall in love with Julie, he must suppress his beastly urge to kill her.
vedoucí kosmetického salónu Netušil
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.
Director
The sore and tender hearts of a young couple with a toddler are explored in this drama. The little girl, four years old, is not aware that she is doing anything distressing while she ambles about the house on the day after a post-examination celebration by her father, a university student. Even though hung over, he tries hard to be patient with her. The beginning of the story follows her on her little adventures. The girl comes down with a fever, which kills her before anything can be done, and the student and his photographer wife mourn and comfort one another. Little encounters with children cause the mother pain she is seldom free of, until she gives birth to their next child, a son.
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.
The waitress Gita from the hotel "Bobí vrch" approaches her lover who has not left his wife yet and gives him an ultimatum: if he does not do all according to her wish, she will announce to the police his machinations with foreign currency.
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The waitress Gita from the hotel "Bobí vrch" approaches her lover who has not left his wife yet and gives him an ultimatum: if he does not do all according to her wish, she will announce to the police his machinations with foreign currency.
Director
The fifteen year old Maruska (Lenka Korínková) starts as a new staff in the porcelain warehouse. For the boss Svetla (Míla Myslíková) it is the last straw. She asked to extend her staff consisting of four girls and a retired lady by a man, not a child. The kind and ever fussy Svetla, battling in vain with overweight decides to leave her position and to take another one in the office. As soon as she finds out that the position will be taken by Arnost Jarolím (Josef Langmiler), she insists on a hand over inventory.
Screenplay
Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, blackmail, and the pesky need to kill others lest she be exposed.
Director
Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, blackmail, and the pesky need to kill others lest she be exposed.
Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa orchestra, but he is again and again distracted by criminal cases. Therefore he is the only one who does not see that his violin has no future. He solves the criminal mysteries in passing but the final test shows that the famous detective is tone-deaf.
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A romantic story of a young nobleman who sees a beautiful girl at the carnival who seems familiar to him. He feels that he saw her in an old castle, where only the old countess and sister live. It is precisely in their salon in the city that she meets the girl again and learns her history
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A romantic story of a young nobleman who sees a beautiful girl at the carnival who seems familiar to him. He feels that he saw her in an old castle, where only the old countess and sister live. It is precisely in their salon in the city that she meets the girl again and learns her history
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In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.
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In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.
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Impressionistic film based on a Maupassant story about five friends who fall in love with the same beautiful girl one summer.
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Impressionistic film based on a Maupassant story about five friends who fall in love with the same beautiful girl one summer.
Screenplay
A horror film set in and around an opulent theater, featuring vampirism, ghosts, romance, and music.
Director
A horror film set in and around an opulent theater, featuring vampirism, ghosts, romance, and music.
Screenplay
Хозяин крематория женат на еврейке и имеет двоих детей. Дело имеет неплохой доход, и семья кажется прочной и преуспевающей. Но тут в Чехии воцаряется нацизм, что прибавляет работы крематорию. Мужчина рад засвидетельствовать нацистам свою преданность, но как быть с членами его семьи, принадлежащими отнюдь не к арийской нации?
Director
Хозяин крематория женат на еврейке и имеет двоих детей. Дело имеет неплохой доход, и семья кажется прочной и преуспевающей. Но тут в Чехии воцаряется нацизм, что прибавляет работы крематорию. Мужчина рад засвидетельствовать нацистам свою преданность, но как быть с членами его семьи, принадлежащими отнюдь не к арийской нации?
Screenplay
A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana's father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts...
Director
A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana's father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts...
A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana's father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts...
Visitor
A nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.
Screenplay
A murder in a hospital run by incompetents.
Director
A murder in a hospital run by incompetents.
Фильм о работе отнюдь не ведущего отдела уголовного розыска. Агент Мартин занят преступлениями детей и подростков и его вызывают, его беспокоят по делам, в сущности, пустяковым. К примеру, ежедневно с грузовика, развозящего молоко, пропадают три литровых бутылки; в одном из городов деревянный конь от карусели каждую ночь оказывается привинченным к решетке высокой колокольни...
William Poker
This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped to the electric chair that he realizes that this is his last live scene. The second episode has the wife of an elderly British nobleman having an affair with the young gamekeeper of their estate. Part three finds a peasant woman taking a lover when her husband goes off to fight the war.
Screenplay
Juraj Herz adapts Bohumil Hrabal's story about a man who works in a junk shop.
Director
Juraj Herz adapts Bohumil Hrabal's story about a man who works in a junk shop.
Jewish Man
В годы Второй мировой войны словацкому плотнику Тоно Бртко в рамках программы ариизации от свояка достаётся небольшой магазин старой еврейки Розалии Лаутманн, торгующей пуговицами. Тоно прекрасно понимает, что свояк подсунул ему совершенно бедный магазин и никакой прибыли от него ему не видать. Но он боится объяснить это жене, из-за её свирепого характера, и также не может объяснить старухе Лаутманн, что теперь он является хозяином её имущества. В 1965 году фильм удостоился премии «Оскар» в номинации «Лучшая картина на иностранном языке», а год спустя Ида Каминска получила номинацию на премию киноакадемии за Лучшую женскую роль второго плана. Фильм также получил премию «Золотой глобус» и был отмечен специальной наградой на Каннском кинофестивале.
First Assistant Director
В годы Второй мировой войны словацкому плотнику Тоно Бртко в рамках программы ариизации от свояка достаётся небольшой магазин старой еврейки Розалии Лаутманн, торгующей пуговицами. Тоно прекрасно понимает, что свояк подсунул ему совершенно бедный магазин и никакой прибыли от него ему не видать. Но он боится объяснить это жене, из-за её свирепого характера, и также не может объяснить старухе Лаутманн, что теперь он является хозяином её имущества. В 1965 году фильм удостоился премии «Оскар» в номинации «Лучшая картина на иностранном языке», а год спустя Ида Каминска получила номинацию на премию киноакадемии за Лучшую женскую роль второго плана. Фильм также получил премию «Золотой глобус» и был отмечен специальной наградой на Каннском кинофестивале.
В военном гарнизоне Алкалис в день открытия памятника Иоганну Себастьяну Баху разворачиваются загадочные события. Солдат Шульц, прекрасный кларнетист, дезертирует из гарнизона при помощи молодого учителя и И.С.Баха. В тот момент, когда Шульцу угрожает опасность, ружья, направленные на него, превращаются в кларнеты. Все оружие в гарнизоне становится музыкальными инструментами. Церемония открытия памятника великому композитору превращается в музыкальное шоу.
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В маленьком городке на «Диком западе» крепкие парни развлекаются дракой, стрельбой и пьют виски. Нравы там грубы и жестоки, закон один — «Кто кого раньше застрелит». Даже шериф не в силах этому противостоять. Но однажды в салун заходит Он — Лимонадный Джо, и в городке начинается новая жизнь. В него влюбляются все первые красавицы городка. Секрет популярности героя «Коло-локовый лимонад» — единственный напиток, самого меткого стрелка и ловкого наездника.
First Assistant Director
По одноименной новелле Ленки Гашковой.
Директор большой электростанции Кудрна оказался на скамье подсудимых. Он и два его бывших подчиненных обвиняются в расхищении государственных средств. Оба бывших сотрудника Кудрны приписывали незаконные премиальные и брали часть себе. Кудрна не знал об этом. Выдавая рабочим как поощрение премии и награды, Кудрна смог быстрее закончить строительство и сэкономить обществу во много раз большую сумму, чем та, за которую его посадили на скамью подсудимых. Однако суд признает Кудрну виновным и приговаривает к трехмесячному заключению, которое тот уже отбыл в тюрьме во время следствия. Но сам Кудрна не согласен с решением суда, он считает себя невиновным.
Two magicians, Mr.Schwarzwald and Mr.Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.
Assistant Director
По роману Ариошта Люстига "Ночь и надежда".
О еврейском гетто, созданном фашистами в чехословацком городке Терезине, о том, как была арестована подпольная типография, а виновные вместе с очередным эшелоном отправлены в Освенцим.
По роману Ариошта Люстига "Ночь и надежда".
О еврейском гетто, созданном фашистами в чехословацком городке Терезине, о том, как была арестована подпольная типография, а виновные вместе с очередным эшелоном отправлены в Освенцим.
Assistant Director
