A young woman returns to her native village in the mountains, searching for answers about her troubled childhood. As she tries to uncover the long-buried truth, dark ancient legends seem to come to life, leading to the local villagers accusing her of witchcraft.
The drama of an extraordinary man, reflecting the age-old struggle of the two principles that have controlled humanity from the very beginning: Good and evil. Love and hate, cruelty and mercy, faith and betrayal. All that within one person against a background of historical twists. Mikolášek’s extraordinary abilities are redeemed in the battle with his […]
The Glass Room is an adaptation of Simon Mawer’s novel which traces the history of Czechoslovakia in the 20th century and, at the same time, features three love stories of people who lived in the Villa Tugendhat over several decades. Liesel Landauer and her friend Hana are the protagonists of the film, relating the story […]
A genius sentenced to life imprisonment for collaboration with the totalitarian regime uses his extraordinary memory to denounce old friends and summon the Devil.
American writer Philip Roth based his book in part on his actual experience of the 1970s when he visited Prague after the Soviet occupation in 1968 to help banned Czechoslovak writers. Despite political oppression, social life in Prague was extremely exuberant, full of fun and open relationships. The greater the pressure imposed by the regime, […]
“Nobody fucks with the truth” says Vlastimil Reiner, a retired and immobile 90-year-old ex-army colonel, as his friend Tonda helps him with his personal hygiene. The two old men are about to embark on the last mission of their lives: to find and kill the former Communist prosecutor who used to send the nation’s elite […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]