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Vera Chytilová – Kalamita AKA Calamity (1982)
As with Chytilová’s other work, the story of a young train driver was the result of compromises the director had won in defiance of Barrandov’s dramaturges. The studio had offered her the project as...
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Vera Chytilová – Pátrání po Ester AKA In Search of Ester (2005)
Ester Krumbachová – an artist, screenwriter, director, one of the most important names of the Czech New Wave. She worked for the theatre, wrote, illustrated. She was in the middle of the artistic life...
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Vera Chytilová – TGM Osvoboditel AKA Tomas Garrigue Masaryk a Liberator (1990)
Quote:Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was the first President of Czechoslovakia (1918-1935), independence movement leader and philosopher. After the Velvet Revolution, Chytilová turns to Masaryk to ensure some...
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Karel Steklý – Siréna AKA The Strike (1947)
Quote:This winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1947 is a social drama directed by Karel Steklý, whose style has much in common with Italian Neorealism. The main themes of Steklý’s...
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Jan Prusinovský – Chyby AKA Emma in Love (2021)
Synopsis:Emma is a lively 25-year-old shop assistant living in a small town. Tomas is a 30-year-old roofer living in a village nearby the capital. They spend a night together, with no expectations....
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Jan Svankmajer – Sílení AKA Lunacy (2005)
A horror movie testing two approaches to running an insane asylum – absolute freedom versus control and punishment – within the context of a world that combines the worst of both. Jean Berlot, a young...
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Andrea Sedlackova – Toyen: La baronne subversive du surréalisme AKA, Toyen:...
If Leonora Carrington was England’s “lost surrealist” the Czech title must surely go to Marie Cermínová, AKA Toyen or “the baroness” to her friends – a name that characterised her remote and somewhat...
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Jan Nemec – V žáru královské lásky AKA In the Light of the King’s Love (1990)
Postmodernistic version of the grotesque and blasphemic novel The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch by czech anarchistic and subjectiv-idealistic philosopher Ladislav Klima (1878-1928) transposed into...
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Jirí Trnka – Kybernetická babicka AKA The Cybernetic Grandmother (1962)
Quote:Trnka took a turn into Space Age sci-fi surrealism with this dark, dystopian satire on automatization in which a child traverses a forbidding technological wasteland to meet (surprise!) her...
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Jan Svankmajer – Do pivnice AKA Down to the Cellar (1983)
A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form. 241MB | 15m 20s | 718×564 | mkv...
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Jan Svankmajer – Jídlo AKA Food (1992)
Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 268MB | 17m 03s | 696×574 | mkv https://nitro.download/view/0F1892AA39C81E8/026.Food.1992.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv...
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Vojtech Jasný – Touha AKA Desire (1958)
A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the first skit, a young child’s impressions are...
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Michaela Pavlátová – My Sunny Maad (2021)
When Herra, a Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan man, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor about the family she is about to join. 2.60GB | 1h...
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Karel Zeman – Na komete AKA On The Comet (1970)
SYNOPSIS:When a comet passes the earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa with it. Carried along is a bunch of people. Among them Angelika, who just escaped from a ruthless weapon...
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Jan Sverák – Kolja AKA Kolya [Director’s Cut] (1996)
A confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires and leaves him with a pint-sized new roommate. 3.29GB | 1h 51m | 1024×576 | mkv...
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Frantisek Pilát & Otakar Vávra – Svetlo proniká tmou AKA The Light Penetrates...
Quote:Zdenek Pešánek created the first public kinetic sculpture, for the power station in Prague. This short experimental film focuses on a kinetic sculpture by Zdenek Pešánek. For a period of eight...
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Drahomira Vihanova – Pevnost aka The Fortress (1994)
kratkyfilm.com: The fortress in the setting of the landscape gives an impression of a den or a detention colony of Kafka’s fiction. The watch-towers, barbed-wire-fencing, severe guarding, all that in...
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Drahomíra Vihanová – Fuga na cerných klávesách AKA Fugue on Black Keys (1965)
FUGUE ON THE BLACK KEYS tells the story of an African student who studies the piano in Prague in the 1960′. The movie is shot in the style cinéma-vérité and follows young Farari in the school, with...
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Ladislav Helge – Bila oblaka AKA White Clouds (1962)
Autumn 1944, the Slovak National Uprising is suppressed and the fighters must withdraw to the mountains. Commander Repta’s unit takes along the thirteen-year old Zuzka, who lost her home and all her...
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Karel Zeman – Poklad Ptacího ostrova AKA The Treasure of Bird Island (1952)
THE TREASURE OF BIRD ISLAND (POKLAD PTACIHO OSTROVA) – 1952, 77 min. Dir. Karel Zeman. Inspired by a Persian fairy-tale, and told in the ornate style of illustrated Persian manuscripts, Zeman’s first...
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