Enemies evolve into allies under unusual circumstances in this satiric comedy from the Czech Republic. In 1968,...
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Oskar
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2009
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Director, Screenwriter
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2008
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2008
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Referred to in one publication as the Czechoslovakian equivalent of The Big Chill, acclaimed writer-director Jan Hrebejk's...
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2007
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A virtuous man discovers just how deep corruption can run, and how easy one can succumb to it, in this satiric comedy-drama...
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2006
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Eight master directors of world cinema combine forces for this omnibus film that focuses cumulatively on the subject of time....
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Director, Screenwriter
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2002
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2000
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Though Hungarian politics play a key role in providing the backdrop for this account of a young woman's life, the real focus...
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1997
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A middle aged divorced man goes through male menopause in this Czech melodrama. Karl is the man and the lovely Klara is his...
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1995
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This Austrian comedy, with an Austrian and Czech cast, looks at international business in East Europe. Eva is a hotel bar...
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Adamec
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1994
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A satirical look at Stalinism and Soviet bureaucracy, the movie is based upon a previously banned Russian novel by Vladimir...
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Director
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1994
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When the people in your life are just too treacherous to deal with in a straightforward manner, the temptation to yield to...
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Vaclav
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1993
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In this cynical comedy, an renowned, out-of-work, unpublished "underground" writer from formerly Communist Poland is driven...
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Stan
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1993
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Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions,...
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Director
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1991
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This bedroom farce takes place at a large country estate in the period between the two world wars. It has been rented by...
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Director
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1989
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A family who struggles to get by uses their neighbor's luxury apartment while he is away in this delightful situation comedy....
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1987
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Director
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1985
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Director
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1985
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Acclaimed Czech director Jiri Menzel has pulled off another successful collaboration with writer Bohumil Hrabal in this...
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Director
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1984
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In a charming comedy set in the 1920s, Czech director Jiri Menzel gives an inspired rendition of a bemused, confused Dr....
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Dr. Gyorgy Racz
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1984
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A young doctor and his attractive wife have settled in a village of eccentrics that houses two school marms longing for a...
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Carpenter
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1982
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In a plot that needed a transfusion somewhere mid-stream, a vampire-mobile is the car of the hour for Madam Ferat, who uses...
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Dr. Marek
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1981
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In this weak parody of gangster movies, Carmello Mushillo (Marian Labuda) is a low man in the hierarchy of Mafia dons, and...
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1981
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Short Cut is a comedy revealed more in the acting and witty dialogue than in the simple premise of the story itself: how the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1980
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A bereaved gypsy from the city travels to the country to bury his beautiful young wife. He promises the priest some raffia...
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Priest
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1980
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1979
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This 1978 film, set in 1907, is a tribute commemorating the 80th year of Czechoslovak filmmaking. Among the accomplishments...
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Director, Screenwriter, Kolenaty
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1978
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Since he works many hours in the maternity ward of a Czech hospital, the comic couplings of a young doctor take place in...
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1977
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In this film, a couple, after seeing the lovely job a friend of theirs has done in converting an old mill house into a cozy...
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Director
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1976
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When he returns to Prague from a stint in the Army, Lada does not seem to fit in anywhere, and he cannot get the hang of the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1974
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It is little wonder that this film was withheld from release by the communist government of Czechoslovakia from 1969 to its...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1969
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A young Jewish girl survives her stay in a Nazi concentration camp and later finds difficulty adjusting to postwar life in...
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1968
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A man in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia works as a cremator of dead bodies. He believes he is doing the souls of the dead a...
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1968
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The mind of a man whose life is apparently running smoothly but who attempts suicide is delved into in this sincere movie....
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Jiri
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1967
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The Czechoslovakian Capricious Summer is based on a novel by Jan Libora. The plot focuses on three middle-aged vacationers at...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1967
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Czech director Jiri Menzel's Closely Watched Trains (Ostre sledovane vlaky) was the recipient of the Academy Award for Best...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1966
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Five directors team up for this drama that strings the stories together in one 105-minute Czech feature. "Mr. Baltazar's...
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Director
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1965
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