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Crew: Book Author
Actors: Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Martin Huba, Marian Labuda
Synopsis: Despite the 1997 death of longtime friend and Closely Watched Trains collaborator Bohumil Hrabal, 1960s-era Czech New Wave filmmaker Jirí Menzel enters into a postmortem collaboration with the famed author in this pitch-black comedy detailing the shrewd rise of an ambitious waiter. All diminutive Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Rudolf Hrusínsky, Jaromir Hanzlik, Jiri Schmitzer, Petr Cepek, Zdenka Hadrobolcova
Synopsis: Acclaimed Czech director Jiri Menzel has pulled off another successful collaboration with writer Bohumil Hrabal in this light, sometimes saucy farce about two warring hunting factions in a small village and how they end up in a rousing, comic showdown. The village community is made up of a broad Read More
Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter
Actors: Jiri Schmitzer, Magda Vasaryova, Jaromir Hanzlik, Rudolf Hrusínsky
Synopsis: 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 is, in many ways, the writer's conception. The setting is a small town where Hrabal's father Francine (Jiri Schmitzer Read More
Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter
Actors: Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova, Vladimir Valenta, Libuse Havelkova, Josef Somr
Synopsis: Czech director Jiri Menzel's Closely Watched Trains (Ostre sledovane vlaky) was the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1967. In the story, based on Bohumil Hrabal's novel of the same name, Vaclav Neckar plays a Czech railroad worker during the Nazi occupation. He Read More
Crew: Short Story Author
Actors: Ferdinand Kruta, Alois Vachek
Synopsis: Five directors team up for this drama that strings the stories together in one 105-minute Czech feature. "Mr. Baltazar's Death" is directed by Jiri Menzel. Jan Nemec directs "The Imposters" in which two elderly men nearing death keep themselves alive by telling each other lies about their careers. Read More
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