A short Czech film which documents a large family and the house they have built by hand.

Czechoslovakia’s submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990

An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughter’s cheek.

Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic background, he is a man of fortune and is trying…

The small group of actors have to face many problems while preparing a new performance.

The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation – a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his French wife, or a modern Czech villager helps a Bavarian…

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…

A movie directed by Zbynek Brynych.

A three-part depiction of various forms of communication.

A historical film that takes place on the eve of the thirty year war combines aspects of fairy-tales with historical dramas, fencing with a child heroes who find themselves in…

The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return home to Bohemia.

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…

Hlavními postavami je mladá psycholožka Doubravka a vesnický mladík Honza Macháček. On je traktorista, který při ztřeštěné sázce dočasně přišel o řidičský průkaz, takže teď pase družstevní stádo krav, ona…

A combined film, or rather personal profile, in which the naive paintings of quirky comedian and self-taught painter Josef Hlinomaze are brought to life, accompanied by the protagonist’s humorous commentary.

Five different exploits of Sinbad the sailor where he gets mixed up with the pretty daughters of exotic potentates, with powerful monsters that threaten his existence, and with all sorts…

Zofie and Dominika, two girls of very different temperaments, become friends during hop-picking volunteer work in the summer. Zofie (Jaroslava Schallerová) is serious to the point of reticence and she…

Filmmaker Jan Nemec and his crew risked their lives to create this historic documentary account of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The award-winning work is the only filmed record…

Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that…

A short experimental documentary about tourism and travel from the director of Pictures of the Old World.

The very first movie adaptation of J.R.R Tolkein’s The Hobbit. Made in just 30 days so that the producer could keep hold of the rights to Tolkein’s books.

A man plays the Bach piece of the title on the organ, accompanied by images of stone walls with cracks and holes that grow and shrink, intercut with images of…

A dramatic story from the end of WW II and a remarkable contemplation of the value of true friendship, meaning and purpose oflife or the possibility to be humane even…

An anti-war black comedy set during the Thirty Years’ War. The film combines live action with animation to suggest the artistic style of the engraver Matthäus Merian.

While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends to his…

Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl gets stage fright, while another lies to…

In this routine, allegorical sci-fi drama by Czech director Oldrich Lipsky, a disgruntled worker accidentally finds himself aboard a spaceship (long story), and five hundred years later he comes back…

Pojar’s wickedly humourous satire pokes gentle fun at a speechmaker so enamoured with the sound of his own voice, he is oblivious to the effect he is having on his…

Oscar nominated animated short film from Czechoslovakia, 1960

Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building’s attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German army, love blossoms between the…

Puppet adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale.

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

This romantic story turns on a stirring infatuation that takes hold of three young people under the influence of Simon, a Prague student. After the study year, 18 year-old Julio…

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.