Often declared the greatest Czech film ever made, this adaptation of Vladislav Vančura’s novel is a hallucinatory medieval epic, pitting clan against clan and Christians […]
Popular Czech director Alice Nellis has tried her hand at the fantasy genre with this adaptation of a beloved fairy tale collected and published variously […]
This much loved comedy is Jiří Menzel’s third feature-length adaptation of a novel by Bohumil Hrabal, drawing from the legendary Czech author’s memories of childhood […]
One of the great unsung films of the Czechoslovak New Wave has been digitally restored by the Slovak Film Institute. Superstition reigns in a mountain […]
Comic books and cinema, reality and dreams. All collide as never before in this extraordinarily inventive, zany, CinemaScope sci-fi comedy from director Václav Vorlíček, featuring […]
One of the great cult classics of Czechoslovak cinema has just been digitally restored by the National Film Archive in Prague. New Yorker Nick Carter […]
Tomáš (Noël Czuczor) holds down a peculiarly unglamorous job, but one well suited to his introverted and morbidly voyeuristic temperament: he’s on call to a […]
In one of the great anthology films, five leading lights of the burgeoning Czechoslovak New Wave – a dream line-up of Jiří Menzel, Jan Němec, […]
