Reviewers found this somewhat surreal film so visually stunning as to be worth watching even when it was not clear to them...
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1991
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Ten-year-old Eda lives in Czechoslovakia. It is 1945, and he goes to school with some boys who are so mischievous that they...
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1991
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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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1991
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1990
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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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1989
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1989
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1989
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1988
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Leo Popper (Karel Hermanek) is a successful traveling vacuum-cleaner salesman who provides for his wife and three children....
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1986
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1985
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The life and slow death of Communist journalist and Prague City Council member Jozka Jaburkova in the Ravensbruck...
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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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1984
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In this parody of classic horror films set in 1897 (the year "Dracula" was published), the operatic tenor Count Felix Teleke...
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Professor Ofranik
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1984
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1983
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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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Dr. Gruntorad
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1980
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Carson
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1980
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A Czechoslovakian boy begins to recognizes the true meaning of freedom adapted from D. Pavel's novel. ~ Rovi...
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1979
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In this tale of espionage and greed, all the trouble is caused by the invention of a new source of energy, Krakatit, a small...
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1979
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This oddball satire, a favorite of cult film festivals, is set in Prague during 1900. There, pulp fiction hero Nick Carter...
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Police Commissar Ledvina
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1978
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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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Pasparte
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1978
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Years of practice in a big-city medical clinic have burned Dr. Meluzin (Rudolf Hursinsky) out, and he longs for quieter...
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Dr. Meluzin
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1976
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Attempting to escape from the desert to join the Allies, a French Foreign Legion unit in North Africa is strafed by a German...
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1972
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A medieval nobleman stays away from the fighting that has plagued his country for 30 years. Content to stay with his servant...
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Rynda
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1969
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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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1969
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The Death of Tarzan is a Czechoslovakian black comedy which casts a jaundiced eye on the mythos of Edgar Rice Burrough's...
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Baron Wolfgang Von Hoppe (Tarzan)
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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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Kopfrkingl
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1968
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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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Dura
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1967
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This gentle parody of romantic melodramas centers on the romantic exploits of a portly middle-aged office clerk who marries...
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Frantisek Pokorny
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1966
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The Anglo-Czech coproduction 90 Degrees in the Shade stars British actress Anne Heywood as a grocery clerk embroiled in an...
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Kurka
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1965
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Working as a carpenter, Lucin (Rudolf Hrusinsky) endulges in alcoholism, losing his self respect as well as respect from...
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1963
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This story is based on the actual experiences of Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek during World War I and the Russian Revolution...
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1963
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This standard Czechoslovakian drama by Otakar Vavra has allusions to a greater problem and takes place at a roadside pub...
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Huppert
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1961
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The Fabulous Baron Munchausen was Czechoslovakian special-effect master Karel Zeman's follow-up to...
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The Sultan
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1961
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A combined effort of Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavian talents, this respectable musical features the excellent and popular...
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1959
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1956
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