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1) Charlatan
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
Czech
Formats
Description
The Oscar entry for the Czech Republic. Few true stories tread the thin line between good and evil as precariously as that of Jan Mikolášek, a 20th century Czech herbal healer whose great success masked the grimmest of secrets. Mikolášek won fame and fortune treating celebrities of the interwar, Nazi, and Communist eras with his uncanny knack for "urinary diagnosis". But his passion for healing welled up from the same source as a lust for cruelty,...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
Czech
Formats
Description
When two Jews finally manage to escape the Auschwitz concentration camp, they compile a detailed report about the systematic genocide at the camp. However, with Nazi propaganda and international liaisons still in place, their account seems to be too harrowing to believe.
Series
Film Movement volume year 4, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Czech
Description
A trio of friends residing in an urban Czech housing project finds that happiness can come from the place where you least expect it in this quirky and heartfelt drama. As the shadow of the country's largest chemical factory looms large over their bleak industrial suburb, Monika, Tonik, and Dasha hold out hope for a brighter future in another place. While supermarket employee Monika's dreams are built around the hope that she will someday venture to...
5) Protektor
Series
Film Movement volume 9, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Czech
Description
This fateful love story is set in Prague during the late 1930s and subsequent Nazi occupation. It focuses on radio journalist Emil, who is deeply in love with his glamorous Jewish movie star wife Hana. When the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is established, Hana's career is cut short and Emil's radio station put under German control. Emil chooses to collaborate with the occupiers in order to survive and protect his wife. Ironically, this choice...
6) Kolya
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
Czech
Description
A confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires, setting off a wild set of circumstances and leaving him with a pint-sized new roommate.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Czech
Description
In 1942, Tono and his wife are struggling because of his antipathy towards the fascist regime. His brother-in-law, the local fuehrer, chooses Tono to oversee a button shop owned by a sweet, harmless Jewish widow, Mrs. Lautman. Unable to explain his position to Mrs. Lautman, Tono gradually accepts her belief that he is her assistant. When the Jews are ordered deported, the well-meaning Tono decides to shield her from the Nazis.
8) Burning bush
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Czech
Description
Acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland returns to a pivotal time in modern Czech history: the shocking act of a student of the Charles University's Faculty of Arts, who in protest of the Soviet occupation, set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square on January 16, 1969, and died four days later. Through the story of defense attorney Dagmar Buresova, who defended Palach's legacy in a doomed lawsuit, the film examines the transformations taking place...
9) Winter flies
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Czech
Description
Two teenage boys embark on a road trip in search of adventure.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Czech
Description
With this simultaneously harrowing and lyrical debut feature, Jan Nemec established himself as the most uncompromising visionary among the radical filmmakers who made up the Czechoslovak New Wave. Adapted from a novel by Arno(t Lustig, closely tracks two boys who escape from a concentration-camp transport and flee into the surrounding woods, a hostile terrain where the brute realities of survival coexist with dreams, memories, and fragments of visual...
12) The cremator
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Czech
Description
Karl Kopfrkingl works at a stately crematorium in Prague. Obsessed with his duties, he believes he is liberating the souls of the departed. With Nazi forces gathering at the Czech border, Karl descends into a mania that allows him to wholly enact his disturbed beliefs.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Czech
Description
A journey to the beginning of time (1955) : Youngest of four boys one day finds a fossil of trilobite. So his older friend take him on journey through prehistory, up to beginning of time, to see real live trilobites.
Invention for destruction (1958) : An evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano.
The fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962) : The outrageous...
Series
Film Movement volume year 7, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Czech
Description
When a young natural sciences teacher (Pavel Liška) turns down a prestigious school in Prague to work in the backwaters of a remote Czech village, it seems like an odd choice, but he's looking for the space and quiet that he thinks only the country can afford. Once settled, he meets Marie (Zuzana Bydžovská), a local widow whose husband left her to work their farm and raise an adolescent son (Ladislav Šedivý). They form a firm friendship one she'd...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Czech
Description
This film explores a young woman's romantic dilemma: torn between a primal connection and the need to provide for her children, she loves two men. Set in Prague, BEAUTY IN TROUBLE is full of unexpected twists, humor and amazing performances culminating in a surprising ending. Winner of the Krzysztof Kieslowski Award at the **Denver International Film Festival**. Winner of Best International Film at the **Santa Barbara International Film Festival**....
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Czech
Description
On the 16th of January 1969 on Wenceslas Square in Prague, a young student sets himself on fire in front of dozens of passers-by. Police Major Jireš investigates the circumstances of Palach's actions. His instructions are to stop any other "human torches." The news of Palach's self-burning quickly spreads among his colleagues - students at the Charles University's Faculty of Arts. One of them is Ondřej Trávníček, who is a radical student protester....
17) Burning Bush
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Czech
Description
Acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa) returns to a pivotal time in modern Czech history: the shocking act of a student of the Charles University's Faculty of Arts, who in protest of the Soviet occupation, set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square on the 16th of January 1969, and died four days later. 2014 **Palm Springs International Film Festival** nominee, Audience Award - Best Narrative Feature. *"GRIPPING, crisply acted....
18) Prague Nights
Publisher
Deaf Crocodile Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Czech
Description
A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious blonde, Zuzana. In an abandoned cemetery, she tells him three tales involving black magic and erotic obsession. In director Jiří Brdečka's stunning "The Last Golem," a young rabbi struggles to fashion a massive, silent giant out of living clay - until he's distracted by a mute servant girl. In the second...
19) Zátopek
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Czech
Description
His nickname was "Czech locomotive", holder of eighteen world records, and famous for his three gold medals triumph at the 1952 Olympic Games. Emil Zátopek's grandiose success comes alive in the memories of his loved ones, friends, and rivals.
20) Faust
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
Czech
Description
A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'FAUST' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. Svankmajer's FAUST is a nondescript man who, after being lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, finds himself immersed in an indescribably weird version of the play, blending live actors, clay animation and giant puppets.
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