Story of the parents of an accursed solider told from the perspective of their 17-year old grandson Janek. “Odrowąż” dies in 1946, the Department of Security digs up his body four times to make sure that this enemy of the state is well and truly dead. The mother can’t bear the humiliation, she steals the […]
In 1938, young Czechoslovaks learn to play basketball from American Mormons at YMCA camp. When the war starts, their coach is arrested and executed and the team is taken over by young lawyer Franta. After the liberation, Franta visits the prison where their coach died, picks up a handful of soil, puts it in a […]
Two paramedics from Bratislava, Matej and Oliver, are part of a big military offensive against the city of Mosul. They advance through the city along with the Iraqi army which is liberating it from the so-called Islamic State. Their role is to rescue lives. However, they are constantly confronted with despair and hopelessness. The film […]
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 […]
A comic take on self-rediscovery and the effort to survive the tragic past. One year represented by seven days, the daily routine and Parralel Mountain. Memories of real life before this austere life occur and the hero begins to look for the reason why he wanted to forget. His brother, an identical twin, appears and […]
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.
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.
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 […]