Otto Hille, a man from a Czech-German family, prepares an expedition for old and seriously ill Leopold Švarc, understood to be a cleansing experience to make amends for deeds long past. Švarc is accompanied by the loyal, autistic servant Mišel, his cook Jan and doctor Ignác. Otto takes on board insolvent painter Henry. The group […]
Inspired by the work with the documentary “Olimpiade”, this feature film tells the life-story of Josef Myslivecek, friend and teacher of Mozart. Myslivecek was known as “Il Boemo”. He was a composer who sacrificed everything in order to be free, beloved and famous. Yet he died alone, sick and forgotten.
For Vera, family has always come first. She lives with her husband Václav – an honest, unassuming public notary – in a small town in Czechoslovakia. They protect their marriage with all the power of their love. But what if a crisis were to come from outside? What if the world changed so dramatically that […]
A film inspired by Joseph Conrad‘s unique and for many hard-to-understand novel Heart of Darkness, tells the story in two different levels: An adventurous journey and the real picture of the journey inside one’s soul and its darkness. To be able to peek inside the soul, we must get close to the dark parts of […]
A sweet and bitter comedy about Czech and Slovak friends who meet in Prague to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. They have known each other for a long time and this meeting would be a traditional New Year’s Eve celebration, if a seemingly innocent idea hadn’t occurred: to place mobile phones on the […]
Emma is a lively 25-year-old shop assistant living in a small town. Tomas is a 30-year-old roofer living in a village nearby the capital. They spend a night together, with no expectations. However, it becomes the start of a relationship, love, living together. Emma decides to unburden herself and is ready to tell Tomas about […]
An aged farmer moves to the urban city for the first time in his life. He befriends a paper delivery boy in the neighborhood and their connection changes the course of both their lives and the boy’s family.
Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, away from his troubled family life in Tehran, and instead immerses himself in researching his father’s past as a communist expatriate in former Czechoslovakia. On visiting the flat where his father used to live fifty years previously, he’s stopped by the police investigating a recent accident.
When Niki finds out that her father is in town after being released from prison, she disobeys her grandmother’s fierce objections and meets him in secret. Faced with his 12-year-old daughter, Tibor is forced to confront his role as a father and finally take responsibility. After 7 years without contact, the father and daughter get […]