The Perpetrator
Was Béla Hancsovszky an adventurer, terrorist or freedom fighter? On August 8, 1945, someone blows up the Tornalja Police Station, witnesses see three perpetrators, but only Hancsovsky is sentenced to death.
Czechoslovak Architecture 58–89
Architecture is the soul of the urban landscape, it remains for hundreds of years and it clearly reflects the time and its specifics. This documentary will take you beyond the facades of the key Czechoslovak architectural landmarks from the communist era. It’ll introduce you to the most important architects of that period. Despite the brute […]
The Hungarian Dressmaker
Marika, a Hungarian widow dressmaker shelters a Jewish boy in her home on the Slovak-Hungarian border during the turbulent years of World War 2 and the Wartime Slovak State.
Waves
Prague 1967 – Tomáš (28) brings up his younger brother Pavel (16). He is not interested in politics himself and tries to keep his brother away from it too. Under unlikely circumstances, Tomáš is recruited as a technician for the pro-democracy Foreign Broadcasting Department of the Czechoslovak Radio, which is gaining more and more influence, […]
66852/Reimagined
In 1941, Leo Kowal, a Slovak Nazi officer, was sent to a concentration camp for having sex with a male colleague. Through personal letters, Gestapo interrogations, digital reimaginations, and a parodic adaptation of an SS manual on persecuting gay men, a young gay filmmaker retraces Kowal’s story. Blending research with intimate reflection, he asks what […]
The Thespian
The Thespian is a film about an actor who has been performing in the theatre since the age of six and continues to act today at eighty-four – a lifetime spent playing roles of all kinds, roles he had to learn to love in order to portray them truthfully. He has always been, and remains, […]
Il Boemo
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.
The Word
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 […]
Zátopek
His nickname was the “Czech locomotive”. The holder of eighteen world records, Emil Zátopek is most famous for the Olympic Games in Helsinki, where he won three gold medals. Nobody has repeated his success and athletics experts doubt that anyone ever will. Emil Zátopek’s supreme success comes alive in the memories of his loved ones, […]