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 […]
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 […]
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.
Toman is a historical drama about Zdeněk Toman, the real-life conflicted person who headed the Department of Foreign Intelligence. He significantly influenced political developments in Czechoslovakia in 1945–1948, activities which substantially contributed to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia seizing power in a coup in 1948.
Just before World War I, the fifteen-year-old poverty-stricken Anne from a small Slovak town is sent to Prague to be a maid in a wealthy family. She meets Resi, the daughter of a noble family, who was born and raised to be an adornment and a trophy – of the house, of her family, of […]
Miroslav Válek is such a very significant personality who, in the previous century, left such a mark on Slovak culture that not to come to terms with him would mean leaving his essential role without reflection. The film makes a responsible and objective contribution to this reflection. Válek’s “inner conflict” constitutes the basic starting point […]
Knight Bořek is searching for his missing son. Enthralled by stories of the children´s crusades, little Jan has run away from home. Bořek’s crusade is a journey into his own subconscious, where he is forced to confront his greatest fear.
The film Once There Was a Town… is a surreal tale of a radioactive sausage and a several-metres-high mountain of contaminated wool, which the director watches while riding an old, crumbling Ferris wheel in the centre of Pripyat – an abandoned town. It’s an animated documentary about immense human stupidity and the consequences of strange […]
It’s the early 60’s. Three former hockey heroes of the entire Czechoslovak nation are dealing with the aftermath of a fabricated law suit by the communist party with the hockey team in 1950.One lost physical strength and health in a communist lager,the second was robbed of his beloved hockey and youth,the third one evaded the […]