This original Czech-Slovak fairy-tale talks about love, greed and narrow-mindedness, but also about human courage and ingenuity. It is the story of the young watchmaker’s apprentice Urban who, thanks to his kind heart and watchmaker’s skill, overcomes many obstacles on the journey to the miraculous watch warning before Death and thus rescues his beloved Laura.
Documentary opera exploring the nature of memory, music, and narration through imprints of controversial and progressive composer Jan Kapr, awarded by Stalin and later completely banned in communist Czechoslovakia, but performed abroad by prestigious musical bodies. Kapr Code transfers Kapr’s strong and ambivalent life story into opera music composition. The storyline follows the “documentary libretto” […]
The feature-length documentary How I Became a Partisan comes with an unprecedented story of Slovak and Czech or, better, Czechoslovak, history. The main theme of the movie is searching for the fate of forgotten Roma partisans. The author of the film is Roma director Vera Lacková. Her search for, and disclosure of, stories of Roma […]
Fourteen-year-old Darek lives with his father and younger sister in a small village on the Czech side of the Czech-German-Polish border. After his mother, with whom he had a very gentle relationship, dies, his life changes. His father loses his job and becomes addicted to booze. That is why the plan of his father’s old […]
The story of three families set in the era of the major social changes brought about by the collapse of communism and the creation of democratic Czechoslovakia. Their fates are linked by Havel’s amnesty and the events in Leopoldov prison. The idea of the amnesty was to underline that the previous system of justice was […]
In this film, based on a successful Czech TV series, Doc Martin solves personal mysteries and detective plots. Over the course of a single day, he has to look after his small child, settle his traditional misunderstandings with his partner and get to the bottom of a mystery with tracks leading deep into the past. […]
Irina is a single mother, a Ukrainian living in a small Czech town. One night, her teenage son Igor claims that he was assaulted by three young Roma. Irina demands justice and is met with great solidarity by her new society. Until she spots inconsistencies in her son’s account.
Barbora and Tom spend the holidays at their grandparents’ home under the Dragon Rock. A small two-headed dragon helps out at the grandfather’s smithy. One day Barbora and Tom decide to sleep over in the dragon’s cave, where they find an old map. The dragon starts to tell them the story of a forgotten fairyland.
This is the first film about the well-regarded figure in Czechoslovak and Slovak history – Alexander Dubček – the leader of many important social changes during the 1960s. Suddenly, on 21 August 1968, the armies of five countries of the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia and buried the process of democratisation for good.