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Actors: Jiri Machacek, Pavel Liska, Emilia Vasaryova, Simona Babcakova, Nina Diviskova, Pavel Landovsky
Actors: Jiri Machacek, Emilia Vasaryova, Pavel Liska, Simona Babcakova, Nina Diviskova
Actors: Zdenek Sverak, Daniela Kolarova, Pavel Landovsky, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Jiri Machacek
Synopsis: The long-anticipated seriocomedy Empties constitutes director Jan Sverak's third installment in his trilogy on aging that commenced with The Elementary School (1991) and continued with the beloved Kolya (1996). The filmmaker's father, Zdenak Sverak, stars as Josef Tkaloun, a curmudgeonly Read More
Synopsis: Set over a two-decade period in a tiny Central European village, this drama not only chronicles a couple's tragic star-crossed love, it also serves as a metaphor for the tragedy of lost traditions. After opening in the snowy wilds as two people spectacularly die, the story jumps back 20 years as Read More
Synopsis: Set in swinging contemporary Prague this light drama centers on a hip-young newspaper photographer who takes an aerial photograph of a peaceful village and discovers that he has taken a picture of a murder in progress. His editor shows no interest in the photo, but Ondrej, the photographer, cannot Read More
Actors: Martin Dejdar, Jiri Labus, Jjarka Rytychova, Katerina Kozakova, Jiri Schmitzer
Synopsis: This Czech drama is the first film version of Kafka's unfinished novel. The film has a theatrical feel as it follows protagonist Karel Rosmann from Europe to America where stays with his Uncle Jacob, an industrialist. Karel has many experiences there that leave him beginning to feel paranoid; Read More
Actors: Pavel Landovsky, Bronislav Poloczek, Alois Svehlik, Rudolf Hrusínsky, Jr., Jiri Schmitzer
Synopsis: It is just after the end of World War II in the new communist state Czechoslovakia, and the powers that be have decreed that the state will maintain a sizeable army. This spoof follows the adventures of one non-combatant regiment, the Black Barons, who spent the entire wartime period working in a Read More
Actors: Pavel Landovsky, Marina Vlady, Katharina Thalbach, Rudolf Wossley, Ulrich Reinthaller
Synopsis: Follow Me takes place just after the Russian suppression of Czechoslovakian freedom of expression in the spring of 1968. Pavel Landovsky plays a liberal philosophy professor who continues teaching forbidden classes in his apartment. When things get too hot for him in Prague, the professor decides Read More
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson
Synopsis: In Philip Kaufman's surprisingly successful film adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundera's demanding 1984 bestseller, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, an overly amorous Prague surgeon, while Juliette Binoche plays Tereza, the waiflike beauty whom he marries. Even though he's supposedly committed Read More
Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Annette Von Klier, Franz Buchrieser, Stefan Meinke, Krystyna Janda
Synopsis: A street-hardened cop softens up after he gets entangled with an 18-year-old but very tough girl who hangs out with other juvenile delinquents in this violent German actioner. Their strange relationship begins when the cop meets her while trying to arrest a group of her friends. During the Read More
Actors: Pavel Landovsky
Synopsis: Director Bernard Safarik based this straightforward story on his own experiences, and on Czech writer Jaroslav Vejvoda's stories about the difficulties of Eastern European refugees -- both in obtaining a visa and later adjusting to life in a new country with a different socio-economic system. The Read More
Actors: Franz Buchrieser, Frank Gorshin, Lukas Resetarits, Pavel Landovsky, Bibiana Zeller, Broderick Crawford
Synopsis: Harry Werner (Frank Gorshin) is a ruthless hired assassin who leaves San Francisco after one killing, to go to Vienna and eliminate a low-level con artist engaged in blackmailing some government officials. Unfortunately, the conman is capable of mayhem himself, and between the two, the hunter and Read More
Actors: James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Kenneth McMillan, Pat O'Brien, Donald O'Connor, James Olson, Mandy Patinkin, Howard E. Rollins, Jr.
Synopsis: E. L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime was a sprawling fictional account of American manners and mores in the years between 1900 and 1913. Among the mosaic of colorful factual and fictional characters in the novel were escape artist Harry Houdini and radical Emma Goldman. Both characters are all but Read More
Actors: Christopher Waltz, Ingrid Burkhard, Pavel Landovsky
Synopsis: Controversial electric shock therapy is the actual subject of this story of a disturbed young man who enters a clinic and receives this type of therapy and then is released to try to deal with his life. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This Czechoslovakian film adapts two stories by Giovanni Boccaccio from his 14th-century book The Decameron, -- one of the first European works of literature to appear in a vernacular tongue instead of Latin. The first story, called "The Arabian Horse," recounts how a young man gets permission Read More
Actors: Lubomir Kostelka, Radovan Lukavsky
Synopsis: This is an updated version of Jonathan Swift's classic symbolic social and political satire Gulliver's Travels. Gulliver (Lubomir Kostelka) wakes up in Balnibarbi after being involved in a car crash. Floating over Balnibarbi is the mysterious country Laputa, and Gulliver tries to go there when he Read More
Actors: Daniela Kolarova, Pavel Landovsky, Josef Somr
Synopsis: A young worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. This political and social comedy finds the worker being relegated to a social class, in spite of the utopian ideals for a classless system. He soon discovers his girlfriend Read More
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