Moments, a contemporary family drama, is structured around the young, warm-hearted woman, Anežka, who is always there for her family, tries to help everybody and keep her promises. But over the course of the story she learns that one’s self sacrifice needs to be limited and that sometimes she also needs to fulfil her own […]
A child is born and three fairy godmothers watch over its fate. One gives the child extraordinary attributes, the second one strews many obstacles in its path and the third advises the child on how to find happiness despite everything. However, what happens if one of the fairy godmothers fails to perform her role? A […]
It is Zahrajko’s birthday and Spievanka wants to give him a surprise. She calls in the children from our world to help her out. They decide to throw a birthday party for him and make some presents as well. All this has to happen in secret so Zahrajko does not find out what is cooking. […]
The year is 1980. Michal and Juraj are students at a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Fearing the dissolution of their school, the tutors are moulding the seminarians into a shape satisfactory to the ruling Communist Party. Each of the young students must decide if he will give in to the temptation and choose the […]
Jarmila’s life changes significantly in quite a senior age when she and her husband move from Prague to countryside to spend the rest of their lives there. But her husband Václav gets cancer and dies soon, and Jarmila must take things to her own hands. The impulse to change her previous, quite passive life attitude, […]
A film inspired by the closely observed life of punks who spend their lives on the periphery of the city. A thirty-year-old drug addict lives in a decaying sublet at a dump with his partner and his two-year-old son. His “idyllic” world is suddenly threatened by a letter from the social services. In fear of […]
Jaroslav is a handsome and seemingly good-natured son, father and decent husband. But, in fact, he is pathologically jealous of his wife Blanka and very much afraid that she will leave him one day with their three children. Jaroslav and his family do not hesitate to employ violence, deceit and terror against others, which ultimately […]
Story of the talented Russian poet, Anna Barkova (1906-1976), who spent twenty-two years of her life in the Gulags. She survived thanks to her poems, thanks to hope and her passionate love for a woman named Valentina.
An Angel of the Lord 2 is a loose sequel to the successful Christmas fairy tale about the symbolic antitheses of good and evil – angel Petronel and devil Uriah who head off into the human world to find the lost apple of the Tree of Knowledge. They have to undergo many human and “divine” […]