Movies

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance...

A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and death, set amidst complex hospital apparatus and the...

Five Girls Around the Neck, in 1967, set out to explore that critical age of adolescence when a person's character is formed for good or evil. Schorm...

Documentary portrait of Josef Sudek. The camera captures the famous photographer at work, during walks through the city and nature, waiting for the...

A dialogue between judge and convict, winner and loser, which offers the viewer a reflection on the relativity of guilt, heroism and crime in the...

A short documentary about the work of railwaymen and life on the railway.

The story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing also gets a son with her. Dealing with such a situation...

Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.

Showing his own original footage of Prague Spring, director Evald Schorm describes the atmosphere these days in 1968.

Mr. Dezső and Rezső are selecting the heroes for their new operetta. They represent different tastes and styles, and keep arguing about the...

A synagogue service in Bohemia, where the Torah scrolls are ceremoniously taken out and read, intercut with images of a Jewish cemetery.

Blanka is an experienced and respected editor of a book publishing house, and she is currently working on a book by the young mountaineer Frantisek...