Czechoslovakia Movies

The full-length film which, though based on Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, is more about the complexity of the time and the world. We witness the...

In the morning twilight of Prague, the dead body of the safe-breaker Toufar is found floating on the river Vltava with a knife in his back. Police...

The comedy tells the story of a lonely mother of a small, naughty and immediate son who sometimes unwittingly does some mischief. Not for nothing...

Svatopluk Innemann’s film Be Prepared! presents the early Czech boy scout movement through a simple narrative. The film extols the virtues of...

A documentary about the life of people in under-developed areas in Eastern Slovakia.

A film about a young sanitation worker who tries to prevent the pollution of a river, but pays the price...

Juraj Herz adapts Bohumil Hrabal's story about a man who works in a junk shop.

Tóna Bohácek has been a great worry to his mother, Mrs Bohácková. All his friends equal in age are already married and...

The dramatic story of a mountaineering expedition to the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, realistically captures the atmosphere of the...

Illustration of the ballad of the same name by Karel Jaromír Erben.

Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertising slides and a "newspaper", we see "the...

An animated short from Viktor Kubal

In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he...