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” […]
Winter 1939. Flamboyant Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk has fled to America to escape his recent past. Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and Masaryk is now a man without a nation. In America, he tries to forget the personal and political betrayals he and his country have suffered – but these events shadow his every step. Having […]
An urban comedy dominated by the story of a lost forty-something man. Vojtech is going through a mid-life crisis. He has never felt in any way significant but now discovers that he is useless in every possible aspect. He lost his wife, he doesn’t meet his family, heʼs not been promoted in his job for […]
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, […]
The portrayal of a town on the very edge of the European Union and the collective identity of its residents. Čierna nad Tisou, once known as the “Golden Gate of Socialismˮ, has now become only a dilapidated scene on the Eastern periphery. The residents of the town are trying to find a new gateway to […]
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.