Jiří Menzel Movies

This film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák.

A crime comedy directed by Jirí Menzel, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

The general practitioner Balla and his wife abandoning her higher education begin their common life in the small mountain village in the hope of...

A young man living in a strictly run boarding house secretly brings a girl of loose morals into his room at night, who is nevertheless well-groomed...

Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.

An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric...

Stephen, living in a troubled family, breaks into a grocery store and wreaks vandalism. He is sent to a reform school. Later he works in a cleaning...

The main character of the story which takes place in the twenties in Budapest is the poet Dr. Rácz György, who returns after ten years of...

A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings,...

An idiosyncratic reflection on the film Larks on a String and its history, shot by it's director Jiri Menzel.