Jiří Menzel Movies

The love story of students Jana and Tomáš begins in Prague just after the establishment of the First Republic. Their impulsive "escape...

A fairy tale of three brothers who try to save a princess kidnapped by an evil wizard.

A young man living in a strictly run boarding house secretly brings a girl of loose morals into his room at night, who is nevertheless well-groomed...

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

Two young technicians, Filos and Kája, come to a small village that is a bit cut off from the rest of the world in order to find the best...

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

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.

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

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

An idiosyncratic reflection on the film Larks on a String and its history, shot by it's director Jiri Menzel.

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

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

Kateřina works at an inn run by her evil stepmother. One day, she meets a young man she doesn't know in the forest. He is Prince Jan, and he is...

"A man is immortal as long as he lives in the memory of others,” said well-known Czech writer Arnošt Lustig with a wry smile. In...

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...