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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
Actors: Marian Labuda, Bolek Polivka, Vítezslav Holub, Jean Constantin, Vladimir Javorsky
Synopsis: A studious young Romany man reluctantly joins his father and a rabble-rousing family friend on a road trip to visit the wife the young man had been promised to years before in director Jiri Vejdelek's free-wheeling road movie. Jura (Holub Vitezslav) is a well-dressed student who places his Read More
Actors: Josef Abrhám, Jiri Bartoska, Libuse Safrankova, Ondrej Vetchý
Synopsis: The horrors of the Jewish Holocaust are revisited in this drama by Czech director Matej Minac. The film opens with the upwardly mobile Silberstein clan led by Jakub (Josef Abrham), as he buys a villa in the countryside just before Hitler overruns the country. His blind faith in family unity Read More
Actors: Ildiko Toth, Viktor Bodo, Roman Luknar, Mari Csomos, Eszter Onodi
Synopsis: Krisztina Deak directs this melodrama about a fractious marriage set in a Slovak village in Hungary during the early 1920s. At the film's opening, impetuous young Ondris (Viktor Bodo) marries -- in grand traditional style -- his father's foster daughter Jadviga (Iidiko Toth), who recently returned Read More
Actors: Vilma Cibulkova, Jiri Pecha
Synopsis: The residents of a small town that exists only in the imagination find their lives reflecting the turmoil of the real world in this fantasy that bridges comedy and drama. A series of episodes follows the misadventures of people living in a village "that never was and never will be" somewhere in Read More
Synopsis: A defiant misfit teenaged girl goes on a magical journey of self-discovery through a surrealistic enchanted forest after she is booted out of boarding school. Tereza goes through the beautiful countryside en route to Bratislava, the capital city where her estranged mother lives. Along the way, she Read More
Synopsis: Based on an absurdist puppet play by Alfred Jarry, this political and often ribald comedy chronicles the attempts of Ubu, a vulgar Polish military officer to fulfill a contract and murder King Wenceslaus. The contract was put out by the King's rude, crude wife Ma. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: The miraculous adventures of Jakub are chronicled in this gently eccentric Slovak comedy. The story is laid out like a novel with title cards naming each chapter. It all begins after the libidinous Jakub is booted out of his home by his father after he is caught making love to another man's wife. Read More
Actors: Petr Forman, Edita Brychta, Zdenek Sverak, Marian Labuda, Boleslav Polívka
Synopsis: Who knows what evil lurks behind your television screen? Czech writer/director Jan Sverak offers a possibility in this satirical tale of televisions that suck the life-force from every living thing. Our hero is Olda, who found himself suffering from extreme lethargy after he is interviewed on a Read More
Actors: Gennady Nazarov, Zoya Buryak, Vladimir Ilyin, Alexei Zharkov, Valery Zolotukhin, Zinoviy Gerdt
Synopsis: A satirical look at Stalinism and Soviet bureaucracy, the movie is based upon a previously banned Russian novel by Vladimir Voinovich. Ivan Chonkin, an uncomplicated man with a taste for sex, is a soldier assigned to guard a broken down airplane in Red, a tiny rural village. Unbeknownst to him Read More
Actors: Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Erland Josephson, Macha Meril
Synopsis: Meeting Venus is based on a play cowritten by the film's director, Istvan Szabo. Glenn Close plays a celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson who is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian Read More
Actors: Josef Abrhám, Marian Labuda
Synopsis: Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay. Composers and writers have penned variations on it ever since. The most Read More
Actors: Marian Labuda, Jaromir Hanzlik
Synopsis: This bedroom farce takes place at a large country estate in the period between the two world wars. It has been rented by Stoklasa (Marian Labuda) a somewhat uncouth but very wealthy businessman, who hopes to buy it. He and his family and staff have settled down comfortably when they are visited by Read More
Actors: Janos Ban, Marian Labuda
Synopsis: Jiri Menzel of Closely Watched Trains fame directed the sweet little Czechoslovakian comedy/drama My Sweet Little Village. The life's blood of the titular community is a collective farm. Marian Labuda is the farm's truck driver, and also the partner-protector of Janos Ban, who is the village Read More
Actors: Lukas Vaculik, Gerhard Olschewski, Zita Furkova
Synopsis: This well-wrought children's film is taken from a story about an arrogant princess by the Brothers Grimm. The princess Anna consistently laughs off her would-be suitors until one day she insults a king from a neighboring land by telling him his beard looks like a thrush. At that point, her father Read More
Actors: Marian Labuda, Rudolf Hrusínsky
Synopsis: In this weak parody of gangster movies, Carmello Mushillo (Marian Labuda) is a low man in the hierarchy of Mafia dons, and when he angers the head honcho, he has to flee for his life to Prague with two companions. His flight through various locales and involvement with some petty criminals provide Read More
Actors: Jitka Zelenohorska, Marian Labuda, Vladimir Durdik
Synopsis: Patrons gather at a hotel nightclub in this Czech drama in which the characters meet in a style reminiscent of Grand Hotel. Two young women save up for months to enjoy five days of luxury at the posh bars and clubs. They are picked up by two young men who believe the women are foreigners. Another Read More
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