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Actors: Jana Janekova, Boleslav Polívka, Jana Krausova, David Kraus, Igor Bares
Synopsis: An overworked psychologist struggles to balance her formidable workload with her failing love life to little avail in director/co-writer Vera Chytilova's quiet psychological drama. Between the insecure art historian (Jana Krausova) tormented by the damning remarks of her hypercritical son (David 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: Vadim Glowna, Harald Kuhlmann, Dieter Schidor, Rudolf Wessely
Synopsis: Albrech Berblinger (Tilo Prückner) is an inventive young man who is working as an apprentice tailor in 18th-century Ulm. He discovers how to make a sailplane which will enable him to fly. As his discovery coincides with France's bloody revolution, this causes him to become a pawn in the political Read More
Actors: Eduard Cupak, Ivan Vyskocil, Jana Brejchova, Zlata Adamovska
Synopsis: The "Young Man" of the title works in a chemical factory, and is very fond of the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville. His roommate also works at the factory as a chemical engineer. The lad has been told many stories about the older man's former mistress, an ambitious and selfish woman by all Read More
Synopsis: Despite the fact that this film was made in 1974 as a propaganda piece to extol the work on the newly constructed portions of the Prague subway, skillful direction helps it transcend this narrow emphasis. The lives of those who worked on the subway and the changes others experienced as a result of Read More
Actors: Ivan Vyskocil
Synopsis: This situation comedy takes satirical jabs at army life. Two soldiers get to know each other when they spend two days on leave in a small town. Soldiers go through routine drills and try to avoid their workload and seething superiors. The film has a thin plot but is still an engaging military Read More
Actors: Ivan Vyskocil, Jan Klusak, Jiri Nemec, Pavel Bosek
Synopsis: This experimental Czechoslovakian film seems disturbingly akin to the works of Spain's Luis Bunuel. A group of happy picnickers runs afoul of Jan Klusak, a bullying sadist who has some sort of unbreakable hold over his followers. Klusak subjects the picnickers to a cruel psychological game Read More
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
Actors: Vladimir Pucholt, Jan Libicek
Synopsis: A young soldier looks forward to a visit from his sweetheart in this black comedy. When an alert keeps the men confined to the military base, his friends smuggle in the young woman for a romantic rendezvous. The young lovers find themselves locked in the infirmary, and the woman takes offense when Read More
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