A film made up of archive footage from the 1968 occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies, told from the perspective of the occupier – the unknown soldier of the title of the film. The director’s great-uncle was one of the soldiers in the Soviet occupying army that invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. He couldn’t […]
Roman is a top-level cyclist recovering from an injury through hard work and a strict regimen. To improve his performance, he even sleeps in an oxygen tent installed in his bedroom. That is a bitter pill for his wife, Šarlota, whose long-time wish is to conceive a child. And so, they both exude determination, lose […]
Una (9) and an alien robot have 24 hours to find her grandpa who was kidnapped by aliens. This extraordinary adventure will lead to a new friendship, the rational robotic logic will be replaced by emotions, and Una’s selfless love will save her half-alien family.
Song (20), a young Vietnamese, was naive to believe he might find a better future in Europe but now he is in the Vietnamese district in Prague, locked in a marijuana laboratory, and he lives as a modern-day slave. The police raid the building. Song runs away across the rooftop of a condo building in […]
Gorazd Šuster lets the woman of his dreams, Lucia Rener, fly off on her own to what should have been their engagement holiday. Why? Because of a call from ex-classmate Svätopluk telling him that their friend Cyril has been granted leave from the psychiatric clinic. Cyril has spent a decade trying to commit suicide. Why? […]
Film about T. G. Masaryk and Karel Čapek, two extraordinary men, the best that ever lived in our country; about the fact that the First Czechoslovak Republic, which they symbolised, had a deep content and meaning in terms of its underlying concepts. But also about the fact that emotions can sometimes be stronger than an […]
Matúš is a talented musician who gave up his successfully developing career when his adoptive mother fell ill. After her death, he’s living with his stepbrother Dávid and together they go through life, each in their own way. While Dávid accepts whatever life brings to him, Matúš feels frustrated by his failed ambitions. On his […]
It is 1937 and a young pregnant doctor Helena arrives with her husband, the director of the factory, in Svit. They want to build a utopian world in the developing Baťa-type town. However, the discovery of a dead body of a newborn baby shatters her ideas about her dream future. Her innate empathy, which is […]
The story begins at a police station with the interrogation of Mára, a teenager who is accused of stealing a car and driving it across the country. The boy will not reveal who he is, where he is from, or whether the car, registered at the other end of the country, has been stolen or […]