Jiří Menzel Movies

Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic...

80-year-old Ali Ungar comes across a book by a former SS officer describing his wartime activities in Slovakia. He realises his parents were executed...

A fairy tale of three brothers who try to save a princess kidnapped by an evil wizard.

Two young technicians, Filos and Kája, come to a small village that is a bit cut off from the rest of the world in order to find the best...

The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very...

​Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.

A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat...

A beautiful, underachieving, 18-year-old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy, and takes a young girl under her wing.

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...

The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.

A film impression about Bohumil Hrabal - an encounter with the man and his literary work. The film was shot in places well known and close to the...

Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty. Now he is playing time from time to rich...

Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original...

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

A theater play by Václav Havel.

An opera troupe in a small town decides to perform Mozart's Don Giovanni. The view behind the scenes uncovers the world of opera without the glitter....

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...