Jiří Menzel Movies

Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic...

Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different for the mother of eighteen-year-old Frantisek,...

By the end of the second World War, three prisoners wish to escape from the train carrying them from one concentration camp to another. To make it...

The series of children's films about Detective Martin, who intervenes in cases involving children, begins with this film. It consists of two short...

Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.

A celebrated theatre director’s perfect life unravels when his wife’s secret lover exposes the hollowness beneath his success, leading to...

After many years, Anka Lomnická, a former countess and emigrant, arrives in Prague. By chance, she finds herself seated next to two characters...

Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been...

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most...

A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three...

A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded...

In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint....

When he was five years old, Ivan Hum was kidnapped and was forced to spend his formative years in orphanages, prisons and other institutions all...

How to marry off two daughters and a maid, especially when the father has no idea that it's high time? Father Ubaldo has worries; his two daughters...