Jiří Menzel Movies

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly,...

A film impression about Bohumil Hrabal - an encounter with the man and his literary work. The film was shot in places well known and close to the...

"A man is immortal as long as he lives in the memory of others,” said well-known Czech writer Arnošt Lustig with a wry smile. In...

Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original...

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

An idiosyncratic reflection on the film Larks on a String and its history, shot by it's director Jiri Menzel.

This film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák.

A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.

An opera troupe in a small town decides to perform Mozart's Don Giovanni. The view behind the scenes uncovers the world of opera without the glitter....

Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.

Balog Mihály, the Gypsy man from Szabolcs works in Budapest. That is where he is notified that his young wife died. Again he behaves...

TV miniseries "More than words explores the possibilities and ways of behavior in non-verbal communication, primarily movements, gestures and ways of...

The general practitioner Balla and his wife abandoning her higher education begin their common life in the small mountain village in the hope of...

An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric...

A young man living in a strictly run boarding house secretly brings a girl of loose morals into his room at night, who is nevertheless well-groomed...

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...