Czechoslovakia

After her mother had passed, Darinka lives with her grandma. In her fantasy she lives her own version of Sleeping Beauty. Her musical talent helps her to cope with illness and fulfill ...

In 1992, Prague is the capital of a small kingdom. The prince is supposed to choose his bride to be at a royal ball. But to everybody's surprise, he chooses an ugly cleaning-woman. She ...

The life of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first elected President of Czechoslovakia following the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918.

Postwoman Mrs Skorepa, her husband the ambulance driver Mr Skorepa and their eleven-year-old twins Petr and Pavel live in Prague in Malá Strana (Lesser Town), one of the Prague's ...

Petr Soukup, a student from Karlovy Vary, is tasked with getting support for student protests in the spa city. However, Petr’s attention is rather absorbed in his relationships with ...

A documentary about the composer who made Czech music famous all over the world.

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

A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three generations (1948, 1968, 1988) are forced to ...

A theater play by Václav Havel.

A story depicting the problem of bullying and intimidation that the junior students of a secondary technical school undergo. Most of the boys yield to their senior colleagues but Juraj ...

A paraphrase on the folk tales about the outwitted Death. This one is a story of a folk musician who plays his violin so well that Death lights a new life candle for him.

Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life.

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Barta’s masterpiece.

Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she worked. Police captain Marha (Frantisek ...