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Jirí Weiss – Vlcí jáma AKA The Wolf Trap (1957)
The childless family of the veterinarian and mayor of a small town, Robert Rýdl, and his much older wife, Klára, is joined by an orphaned girl, Jana. The girl is grateful for her new home but she...
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Juraj Herz – Spalovac mrtvol AKA The Cremator (1969) (HD)
Czechoslovak New Wave iconoclast Juraj Herz’s terrifying, darkly comic vision of the horrors of totalitarian ideologies stars a supremely chilling Rudolf Hrušínský as the pathologically morbid Karel...
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Milos Forman – Horí, má panenko AKA The Firemen’s Ball (1967)
Quote:A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman’s first color film The Firemen’s Ball (Horí, má panenko) is both a dazzling comedy and a provocative political satire. A hilarious saga of good...
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Jaromil Jires – Mladý muz a bílá velryba AKA The Young Man and Moby Dick (1979)
Viktor is a prime example of passivity, he “lives as if he had everything already behind him”. Břéťa is a “charged solar battery, that keeps on charging energy”. Between these two men there enters a...
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Vera Chytilová – Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliste AKA Panelstory – Or...
Quote:An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into which he is supposed to be moving with his...
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Otakar Vávra – Kladivo na carodejnice AKA Witches’ Hammer (1970)
Quote:The time is the seventeenth century. The beggar Maryna Schuchová hides the Host in her scarf at the Communion. She admits to the parish priest Schmidt that she intended to give it to the midwife...
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Krsto Skanata – Prvi padez – Covek AKA First Case – Man (1964)
“The film has three plans: on the one hand, scenes of children who write a school task on the subject of the size and ugliness of a human being, on the other hand, the cadres of miners who protest...
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Lucie Belohradská – Specialita séfkuchare AKA Specialty of the House (2000)
Quote:Mr. Laffler (Jiří Lábus) is strange. Everyone in the office he runs knows that. The clerk, Costain, (Lukáš Hlavica) also knows this, so he is very surprised when his otherwise impersonal boss...
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Zbynek Brynych – Transport z raje aka Transport From Paradise (1963)
Synopsis:Transport from Paradise is set in an unusual World War II concentration camp. The lax Nazi guards permit their Jewish prisoners to roam freely about the camp and conduct their own business...
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Jindrich Polák – Klaun Ferdinand a raketa AKA Clown Ferdinand and the Rocket...
When Clown Ferdinand enters an abandoned city in his wagon he ends up on a space rocket where he meets a robot that can turn invisible. 937MB | 1h 05m | 768×576 | mkv...
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Jirí Menzel – Domy z panelu aka Prefabricated Houses (1959)
A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings, symbolising the obsolete past, alternate with shots of...
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Zdenek Viktora – Raluca (2014)
A detective falls in love with a beautiful woman he meets in a bar… Former cop Filip Marold doesn’t want to be reminded of some things from his past. But others remind him… He works as a private...
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Vojtech Jasný – Vsichni dobrí rodáci AKA All My Good Countrymen (1969)
The 1968 Czechoslovakian film All My Good Countrymen (Všichni dobrí rodáci) is a tremendous piece of cinema. It’s the kind of picture one watches on several occasions across a lifetime, both to better...
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Zdenek Tyc – Vojtech, receny sirotek (1990)
There were a lot of movies shot after 1989, the year when communist empire fell down. I am studying film university in Prague and I am working in TV so I focus on all new Czech movies very carefully....
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Jan Svankmajer – Sílení AKA Lunacy (2005)
IMDb wrote:A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more...
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Jan Svankmajer – Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe) AKA Surviving Life...
Eugene, an aging man, leads a double life: one real – the waking life he spends in the company of his wife of many years, Milana – and the other in his dreams, his sleeping hours being devoted to a...
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Jan Svankmajer – Otesánek AKA Little Otik (2000)
When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife’s pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the...
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Ivan Fíla – Lea (1996)
51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father killed her mother. She bears a striking resemblance to...
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Vladimír Morávek – Nuda v Brne AKA Bored in Brno AKA Boredom in Brno (2003)
Quote:A biting comedy concerning the lives of two young people who meet one day in a house in Brno in order to put their ideals of love into practice. A story about a couple not yet prepared for...
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Agnieszka Holland – Charlatan (2020)
The breathtaking story of a man gifted with exceptional abilities set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties. 3.52GB | 1h 53m | 1920×1080 | mkv...
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