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Jirí Menzel – Zlocin v santánu aka Crime in the Night Club (1968)
Quote:The charming singer Clara Regina has many admirers. Even the minister of justice fights for her favour, especially enchanted by Clara’s lullaby. Clara’s successes with men are watched with...
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Frantisek Vlácil – Holubice AKA The White Dove (1960)
A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with the boy. Together they take care of it bringing it...
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Jirí Barta – Poslední lup AKA The Last Theft (1987)
A sarcastic story about a thief who becomes the victim of his own victims. His victims come from the other world and take his most precious possession – his blood. The phantasmal atmosphere of the...
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Miroslav Krobot – Díra u Hanusovic AKA Nowhere in Moravia (2014)
German teacher Maruna runs the local pub. It doesn’t look like she’ll ever get married, since there aren’t many suitable men in her small village. But one day, something unexpected happens here,...
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Jirí Trnka – Sen noci svatojánské AKA Midsummer Night’s Dream (1959)
The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular...
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Tomasz Winski – Hranice Lásky AKA Borders of Love (2022) (HD)
Petr and Hana, who after years together share their unspoken erotic fantasies. What begins as an innocent conversation gradually turns into experimentation with a non-monogamous approach to their...
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Vojtech Jasný – Touha AKA Desire (1958)
Four stories, four seasons of the year, four periods from the human life Touha.1958.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.AFKI.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 1 h 35 min Size: 2.53 GiB Video Codec: x264...
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Vera Chytilová – Sedmikrásky AKA Daisies (1966)
Synopsis:If the entire world is bad, why shouldn’t we be? Adopting this insolent attitude as their guiding philosophy, a pair of hedonistic young women (Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová), both named...
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Filip Renc – Requiem pro panenku AKA Requiem for a Maiden (1992)
This film is based on the story which happened in 1984 in Czechoslovakia. The main hero is Marika, 14th years old girl who was by mistake of authorities sent to madhouse for young. Here she founds...
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Karl Anton – Tonka Šibenice aka Tonka of the Gallows (1930)
Quote:This major rediscovery creates a bridge between the social realism of G. W. Pabst’s The Joyless Street and the dark lyricism of F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise. The extraordinary Ita Rina (Erotikon) is...
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Juraj Herz – Petrolejové lampy AKA Oil Lamps (1971)
Czech filmmakers have several times been galvanised by the writings of Jaroslav Havlíček. The result in most cases was a film that merged the quality of the literary template and the personality of...
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Jirí Menzel – Postriziny AKA Cutting it Short (1981)
Synopsis wrote:Short Cut is a comedy revealed more in the acting and witty dialogue than in the simple premise of the story itself: how the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal was born. Actually, the story...
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Jan Hrebejk – Kawasakiho ruze AKA Kawasaki’s Rose (2009)
Renowned psychiatrist Pavel Josek is singled out to receive a “Memory of the Nation” medal, however, it transpires that this reputedly morally irreproachable dissident once collaborated with state...
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Jan Svankmajer – Kunstkamera (2022)
An astonishing array of paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, objects and materials fill room after room – but this is not a museum open to the general public. It is the home of the celebrated...
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Karel Zeman – Pohádka o Honzíkovi a Marence AKA The Tale of John and Mary (1980)
From nytimesThe Fairy Tale of Honzik and Marenka employs an ingenious animation technique using cut-out figures that is typical of the creative genius of Karel Zeman, the writer and director of this...
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Jirí Barta – Krysar AKA The Pied Piper (1986)
THE PIED PIPER (KRYSAŘ), 1986, Czechoslovakia, 53 min. Director Jiří Barta’s stop-motion animated masterpiece, based on The Pied Piper of Hamelin, is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of...
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Vojtech Jasný – Az prijde kocour AKA The Cassandra Cat AKA When the Cat Comes...
Quote:Some people with a strange cat arrive in a small village. The cat wears glasses, and when someone takes them off, she can colour people, according to their nature and mood. The grown-ups of the...
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Jirí Menzel – Kdo hledá zlaté dno aka Who Looks for Gold? (1975)
From ce-review.orgMenzel could not work in films for some time after Skřivánci na niti. It was a period when he had to decide if he would accept the rules dictated by the regime or leave his...
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Michal Hogenauer – A Certain Kind of Silence (2019)
A Certain Kind of Silence (2019) A young woman is unwittingly drawn into a sinister cult-like group in A Certain Kind of Silence, the debut feature of Czech writer-director Michal Hogenauer. Inspired...
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Karel Kachyna – Závrat AKA Vertigo (1963)
Závrat (1963) Psychological study of Jitka, daughter of a widower. The girl helps her father run a small hotel. A group of geologists is staying at the hotel and Jitka falls in love with one of them,...
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