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- "Sex, drugs and rock and roll", not in the West but in a Communist police state - Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia of the 1970s . Anti-hero Olin, 21, has just left a mental hospital, after having slashed his wrists to dodge military service. His prominence in the underground scene of youthful revolt makes him an increasing target for the forces of order. Eventually he is on the run, determined to cross the frontier to the "West" he dreams of.
- A low-budget Czech road movie. A computer hacker (Martin Trnavský) has 24 hours to repay some money he's stolen via Internet, and he is reluctant to do so. But there is also a girl involved (Barbora Seidlová), so deeply ashamed of her past as a peepshow stripper that she is determined to end her life. The film focuses on the pair's strengthening relationship as they head down a 'road to nowhere'.
- 7-year-old Marushka grows up in 1950s Prague, raised more by her relatives than her society-building mother.
- This romantic comedy, shot in a road-movie style, tells the story of businessman Petr Kraus (Pavel Batek) and his personal transformation. After returning from China, where he supervised the production of clothing for his customers, Petr finds out that the manufacturer had ruined the whole order and so he gets into trouble with the contractor (Jirí Lábus) who wants some astronomical compensation for the damage. Peter knows that he should solve the problem quickly, but instead he decides to go on a trip seeking his personal happiness and an escape from responsibility. Fortunately, his close friends, Tereza (Vica Kerekes) and Pavel (Filip Blazek) are there to help...
- Vladimír Michálek chose an unconventional adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel for his feature debut. Artistically reminiscent of the classic films of Karel Zeman, the director reinterpreted this dark story of a man vainly seeking a place in a rigidly ordered society by changing the desperate conclusion into a happy end. The film provided Czech comedian Jirí Lábus with a new kind of role: that of the despotic uncle of a main hero Karel Rossman (Martin Dejdar).
- A screwup angel is exiled from the Heaven down to Earth, incarnated as a beggar.
- Luisa and Erika are prototypes of young women who plunge into relationships with the "wrong" men. Luisa (Berenika Kohoutová) wants to become an actress, which upsets her husband Igor to no end. Erika (Alzbeta Pazoutová) is trying to work as much as possible so that she can afford to study and thereby achieve a better outlook on life, but she unfortunately runs up against a boss who doesn't have the best intentions with her. Ultimately Luisa's husband demonstratively commits suicide. Erika accidentally kills her boss in self-defense... The women blame themselves for all these failures, and that has got to change. Both have to grow up and start living again. Perhaps even together.
- Vladimír Michálek's fourth feature based on a book by Jáchym Topol (who had a hand in writing the script). This film about a drug dealer named Mikes (Jan Cechticky), who lives in Prague and longs to escape his own clichéd life, excels for its raw atmosphere and expressive acting. The movie was shot digitally and then transferred to film, and this became its main artistic attribute.
- The story is set in 19th century France. A mysterious man saves Charlotta's (Michaela Kuklová) life when the convent in which she lives catches fire. Ten years later she marries Raoul de Mornay (Filip Blazek), a charming earl who lives in a mansion with his rather peculiar brother, Filip (Jirí Pomeje). Charlotta notices that strange things begin to happen around the castle, though the servants bite their tongues and Raoul manages to cover crimes Filip apparently commits. When the mansion is set on fire and a murder is committed, Charlotta assumes that Raoul is behind it all. She finds herself in mortal danger and it is Filip, whom she once feared, who comes to her rescue.
- Based on a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh, Angels of everyday focuses on a few intimate family members: a recently widowed young doctor Ester (Klára Melísková); a school canteen cook (Zuzana Krónerová) and her son (Václav Neuzil); a driving instructor (Bolek Polívka), his wife (Zuzana Bydzovská), and their closest relatives. One thing that sets this story apart from the other stories we have become accustomed to from this author is the presence of angels - creatures that observe and sometimes try to change these building blocks of our everyday lives for the better. Angels cannot interfere openly in our lives, they can try to nudge us towards a certain outcome. People can choose how they will live their lives.
- A simple story set in present day about a family struggling to cope with needs of a child handicapped with Down's syndrome.
- A family film from two legends of Czech children film, Vera Plívová-Simková and Drahomíra Králová. The starting point for the action is a village family with two dogs: their Dalmatians, bearing the legendary names of the movie's title, experience dreamlike visions of life in a "dog kingdom".
- After the death of Trudy, a centenarian, some lucrative land with an old house are left at the end of the village. That is convenient for the mayor (Pavel Kikincuk), who have designs on the land and want to build a used car lot there. But Trudy's descendant Adam (Jan Dolanský) decide that he likes the villa and he'll fix it up, even though it is supposedly haunted. The plot revolves around a man with a slightly unconventional and ambiguous name Petr Soustal (Lukás Langmajer), who comes to the village to become the priest. He has no idea what's awaiting him or what all he will have to resolve and for this reason a lot of humorous situations arise...
- The story begins where the first film ended: the gossip-monger Mrs. Horácková (Jana Synková) runs out from her house to greet the young hockey players who have come to visit their friend and teammate in a nearby cottage. Horácková immediately comes up with the idea of inviting her granddaughter and adroitly putting her in the athletes' way - perhaps one of them will notice her and the girl will hit the jackpot. The plot also revolves around Horácková's revenge on Mayor Stehlík (Pavel Kikincuk), as he was the reason she had to give up the position of the secretary at the municipal office. An inspector comes to the village and he has no idea what is in store for him and a young priest with a bit of an unconventional and ambiguous name is watching over all of this...
- Zdenek Troska's summer comedy is a humorous look at life in a contemporary village. Here we follow, with detachment and comedic hyperbole, the snowballing misunderstandings and coincidences that really get the village inhabitants in a whirl. The story is not lacking love, jealousy, envy, intrigue and, above all, humorous moments where many will recognize a bit of themselves. The story begins where the second part left off: the mayor wants to exact his revenge on the local gossipers and sends them to the seaside for a vacation.
- The movie is firmly grounded in reality and shows what happens when the system fails. The story revolves around children from disadvantaged families. A tragedy occurs, spinning their behavior into a dramatic tale free of clichés and pretense, revealing their characters and showing that nothing is as simple as it at first appears.
- The teacher Tomás Majer, who came to one former special school in 2010, has disappeared. He came to the school a few months after his sister, also a teacher, was murdered. The boys that murdered Jana Majerová died mysteriously during the school year. It seems that Tomás Majer most likely cold-bloodedly revenged his sister's death. Is there no problem with that? Will the police apprehend him? Will he face trial? What do the children's parents think? And Tomás Majer's parents? Society? What will happen when similar schools are shut down? The film that shocked the public two years ago is coming to its conclusion. A drama that plainly shows the hard reality of this day and age, that shows how far things can go it we only idly watch.....
- Due to suspicion of BSE (mad cow disease), a herd of cows from a small farmstead is sentenced to be killed. The animals revolt and try to escape. People try to hunt them down but the herd, led by Bella, manages to protect itself. Further failures of people increase their aggressiveness. The escalating battle has little in common with the original veterinary prevention. However, there are also people who try to help the cows, who desire nothing more than free life in the great outdoors, even if they are also forced to learn how to live and survive without anybody to feed them, milk them or fill them up with medicine. They learn all about hunger, cold, deprivation and pain. And the loss of loved ones...
- A feature-length documentary based on the mutual experiences of a trio of directors - Miroslav Janek, Roman Vávra, and Vít Janecek - which portrays life in the border village of Bystré during the last year of the millennium. The film concentrates on the exuberant social life of the community, including many bizarre recent customs, as well as on several very intimate moments in the lives of the inhabitants.
- A woman is savagely raped and murdered. Several years later the police start to put together the clues and make progress on the case.
- A sequel to a Czech cult film Bony a klid (1988) about a group of money dealers, who trafficked foreign currencies and so called "bony" during the Communist era. Bony served as exchange vouchers used in shops with otherwise unavailable goods from Western countries. Any unauthorized trading of these currencies was punishable by law. However, as long as the police also got its cut, everyone kept quiet. Twenty five years later the group of small time criminals is back. They quickly shook the demise of their lucrative régime business off and adapted to a new market. They now specialize in governmental and European Union funding. A new young protagonist Martin (Jakub Prachar) who, like his predecessor, comes from a small city to Prague is dragged into their shady dealings...
- A simple low budget piece about the relationship between a young musician (making a living as a garbage collector) and the traumatized girl he finds 'on a trash heap.' Shot digitally, the film elaborates the atmosphere of their burgeoning emotional bond but focuses above all on creating an intimately authentic portrayal of the protagonists. The music of Ivan Král adds an important texture to the movie.
- After nine years, director Irena Pavlásková continued the theme she began with her debut Cas sluhu (1989). She returned to the character of the weakling Milan (Karel Roden), a man completely under the thumb of his manipulative wife Dana (Ivana Chýlková). In a fit of spite Milan finds himself in a psychiatric hospital and soon after enters into a complex relationship with Tána (Lucie Bílá), the doctor who is trying to help him return to normal life. In contrast to the psychological bent of her debut, Pavlásková here emphasizes the comic and socio-satirical aspects of the narrative.
- In the land of King Dobromil (Josef Somr) honest labor, decency, honesty and respect among people has become a thing of the past. Instead the country is gradually succumbing to Hell's force and, thus, those who have some remnants of decency prefer to flee. Slightly befuddled herbalist Apollonia (Iva Janzurová) has a dream that the land is rescued by an unknown 'saviour' who arrives with on an ass and marries Annie (Tatiana Pauhofová), the king's daughter. But who will believe this mad herbalist with her 'magical' herbs that often cause more chaos than benefit? When things are at their worst in the country, the king signs his soul away to Hell and the Government is taken over by his base Minister (Jirí Lábus). At this time there arrives in the Kingdom an inconspicuous happy dreamer Philip (Stepán Kubista).
- This feature came into being by editing together the best sketches of the satiric television program of the same name. Many top filmmakers collaborated on the effort including Zdenek Tyc, Igor Chaun, Milan Steindler, Petr Ctvrtnícek, Jan Hrebejk and Fero Fenic. Czech Soda's typical palette includes rough and provocative black humor, parody, and manipulation with documentary footage.
- This psychological action drama was made in tribute to the Czech school for stuntmen: thus the plot line is subordinated to showcasing their artistic sport. The psychological level depicts a family tragedy in which a hero's world caves in after the loss of his son. Thanks to a group of stuntmen he is able to begin again.
- A drama with four interconnected story lines, portraying the destinies of ordinary people. A wealthy couple, dealing with their infertility, a fact the slightly childish woman can hardly handle; a disadvantaged mother of two small children, reliant only on herself in the maelstrom of the big city; a middle-aged man, aware of his asocial personality and the need for family after years of fanatical devotion to his job; and an older woman, reflecting on her life in the hope of finding new meaning. Unjust fate deals blows to each of the characters in the same way, without differentiating social status, but how each handles the consequences is up to him and him alone. A film about family, love and coming to terms with oneself.
- Motel Halali is an ideal place. Isolated deep in the forest, not a living soul turns up all the livelong year except the staff. This is a perfect place for Dr. Reinis's (Jaroslav Dusek) course designed to help people find meaning in life. Course participants learn something about what it means to live and even more about what it means to survive. That's because a zombie comes stalking out of a forest smelling of needles, decay, and blood. Our heroes must stand alone against it, without hope of help, without a chance in this most desolate, Godforsaken spot in Bohemia.
- Nothing very unusual has happened to Michal (Michal Malátný). He finds himself in the middle of a situation he is partly responsible for and partly not, but it's up to him to solve it. Everyone expects it of him and he himself would like to arrange things honorably and peacefully for everyone involved. But it isn't possible. There seem to be plenty of alternatives. And because this is a film, Michal can try all of them.
- At the beginning of their careers Oskar, Max and Viktor created a superstar clown trio called The Busters. Their clownery personified little islands of freedom in the midst of a motionless swamp of resignation during the communist regime of the former Czechoslovakia. An explosive disagreement, however, led to the three clowns breaking up. As it turns out, the clowns, beloved by the nation, can't stand each other. Now, after thirty years in exile, Oskar (Didier Flamand) returns to end his artistic career in Prague. The meeting with his former friends leads to an unavoidable confrontation with now morbidly obese Viktor (Jirí Lábus) and terminally ill Max (Oldrich Kaiser). Even after all this time the question remains the same: who will have the last laugh?
- This bittersweet film was Roman Vávra's feature debut. The film consists of three independent stories, all connected through the motif of a field of grain. In 'Awn' a young couple takes a summer stroll in the country, in 'The Haystack' a gang of boys have an adventure with an older girl, and 'The Journey' recounts the tragicomic homecoming of a pair of aging newlyweds. For only the second time in the nineties Czech star Iva Janzurová appeared on the silver screen.
- We meet Veronica (Agáta Pracharová) shortly before her high-school graduation exams. She lives with her mother (Pavla Tomicová), an alcoholic, and her mother's partner (Bohdan Tuma). One day when he is drunk, he chases Veronica to the roof of a house and falls off, killing himself. He was in debt as he was addicted to gambling. His creditor wants the money back and starts to threaten Veronica. Her mother will not protect her since she is always drunk. Thus, the young girl must leave home and hide far away. On her journey she meets many characters. Some of them are comic, others are rather tragicomic. And Veronica tries to find good people with whom she would feel comfortable and happy, thus giving her life meaning.
- Viktor (Jirí Mádl) hesitates whether he should stay with the reliable Olina (Marika Soposká), or run after a crazy Evelina (Tereza Ramba). And it's getting much worse thanks to the two internal advisers who spend more time teasing each other than paying attention to their ward. CTRL EMOTION is a story about young people who long for love and are trying to find the courage to decide. Will they find each other or will love elude them by a moment?
- A dark comedy about a "kid" of our times. The American Dream, Czech-style. Everybody would like to glide through life and come into money so easily. It's not always that simple, though. Czechmademan is one of the few unique peeks back at the past two decades of Czech freedom. The movie is based on the narrative of a Czech multimillionaire who achieved success not by stripping companies, making crooked deals and crony-ism, but by blazing his own trail like Schweikesque self-made man. He realizes early on that he has nobody but himself to rely on. During the totalitarian regime of the 80s, he ambles along his oddball path and then experiences the Velvet Revolution atypically, too - in an asylum amidst nut-cases. After the Revolution, he really gets rolling. To Germany and back. To prison and back. To China and back. The intriguing and endless opportunities afforded by the Internet eventually blossom into virtual prosperity. The hero has everything and is even planning a highly unorthodox family... A happy ending is nigh, until everything goes up in smoke, of course...
- A feature documentary about the life and death of a radical architect David Kopecky, builder who loved to destroy, shy eccentric, bold alarmist, austere hedonist, generous usurper, inventor of life. He would never stop dismantling and demolishing until he got what he wanted. A life of a man who never gave in to anybody, or anything, and was admired as well as condemned, raises many questions: Is it possible to remain faithful to one's ideals and at the same time survive in the world of financiers and small town ideas of living? Can anyone stick to his precision and purity without destroying himself and his surroundings? Is it possible to live with a visionary? What is the price of living without compromise?
- The film's main theme is obsession. An obsession with love, with art, originality, copying, with success, money and... with oneself. Sooner or later, if we lose our rational upper hand over it and let ourselves be dragged down by it, every obsession leads to destruction. But it is only when being dragged down, in spite of all the cuts and bruises, that we find a unique DELIGHT, if only for a few short moments - and what else is life really about? It is like a drug. What at first seems to be weak and trivial is capable of expanding and growing into a serious problem that can appear to be absolutely incomprehensible and absurd to those who have never experienced anything like it.
- Thirteen-year-old Julia leaves Berlin, where she resides with her father, to spend vacation in the Czech Republic. While there she experiences first love, and also tries to help the local kids rescue a circus bear from a rich German hunter who's willing to pay for a bit of sport. If the parents get their way they'll use Mr. Big Game to finance the circus and even contribute to local pensions. The children and the bear head for the forest.
- A love story which unfolds over three days and nights on the outskirts of the metropolis. Seventeen-year-old Ema (Dorota Nvotová) breaks up with 'dude' Viktor (Lukás Latinák), has a fling with future pilot Karel (Mário Kubas), and meets a real man (Ondrej Vetchý), a taxi driver without a taxi. In the tangle of relationships, the characters sometimes have an opportunity to share their feelings, but sometimes they simply pass each other by. The story is told through Ema's eyes as she observes the world around her while searching for love, fun, and joy. But she's not the only one looking for happiness, nor the only one who finds it hard to avoid hurting others in the process. Ema's abandoned mother (Jana Hubinská)looks for another chance for love, while Karel's parents try to put long-lost meaning back into their marriage.
- The sequel to a 1987 comedy Discopríbeh (1987). This time around the central generational conflict between a father and his teenage son has been inverted: now the father is having a life crisis. The movie is intended for younger audiences and highlights the catchy tunes of Michal David and the acting of Rudolf Hrusínský and Ladislav Potmesil.
- The story of Milan Muchna's satirical comedy examines what happens when a mysterious medieval beauty (Markéta Hrubesová) arrives to expose lies and injustice in a small Bohemian town. Thanks to a magic truth potion, she is capable of forcing the inhabitants to tell the truth, something none-to-flattering for most of them.
- This black comedy takes place in the large Muk family at Christmas time. Our main protagonist, Karel Muk (Jaroslav Dusek), is a simple guy with simple dreams and a rather streamlined family life. As it says in the script: Karel worked as a cemetery manager for many years and was fond of saying: 'Only the death is sure' but he never allowed this to influence him personally. There was not much he could be praised for. His brother Robert Muk (Petr Ctvrtnícek) is a hard-driving entrepreneur and the youngest Pavel Muk (Marek Daniel) still cannot decide if the meaning of life is hidden in protecting the national park forests or in erotic adventures with the secretaries. One day, shortly before Christmas, an unexpected inheritance lands in the lap of the Muk family.
- An adaptation of a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh is a comedy about friendship, fateful loves, beauty and ugliness, alcohol, and the search for human happiness. The plot revolves around three friends - Jeff, Skippy and Tom - whose ups and downs and relationship breakups keep bringing them back to a shared bachelor apartment. Their counterparts in the story are two women - the class beauty Eva, who becomes the object of desire of all three guys in turn, and the ugly Hujerova, whose ironic attitude to herself and life in general gives her the ability to survive in a world that prizes beauty and to find her own path to happiness.
- A tragicomic mosaic of stories focusing on three siblings: 16-year-old Anna (Karolína Kaiserová), 26-year-old Jana (Tatiana Dyková), and their half brother Vladimír (Jan Budar), age 35. Each of them is looking for the right person to come into their lives, but this merely leads to fumbling through life in a muddle while repeating the same mistakes. Anna is very far from her ideal of flashy beauty, and she struggles to be perfect as self doubts gnaw at her. In her naiveté, she gets caught by the same snares that trapped her sister. The elder girl is tearing through life in the fast lane - towards her first divorce. None of them realizes just how similar their problems are to those of their mother and brother, a brother they as yet know nothing about.
- Young couple Michal and Veronika lives together for five years and experiences first "fatigue" of the relationship. Michal would probably like to take it further to next level, Veronika just finished the college and hesitates between settling down and enjoying still some freedom. In order to move things in the positive way, Michal surprises Veronika by holiday in Sweden. Of course, with the bad luck very typical for him, everything goes wrong, romantic cabin rented via Internet proves to be a scam and they end up stuck in foreign country without any plan what to do next. At that moment, they meet Simon, young Czech traveler who seems to know his ways around Nordic countries very well. He helps them first with flat tire and offers them a stay in a cottage of his friend in Denmark. Along, with this, he gradually promotes himself to the third participant in their holiday trip. He is quite an opposite of serious underdog Michal - easy going, funny, seemingly lucky in everything he does. Yet, more and more, it becomes visible that his ways are not always clean and legal, and there is more than one mystery in stories he tells about himself. Veronika doesn't seem to mind and becomes quite charmed by the merry side of his personality. Eventually, they all end up in the cottage in the Denmark, and its time to find out who is who...
- Alice Nellis's small-scale debut tragicomedy spotlights small-town elections. The protagonist, a university student name Jana (Theodora Remundová) who is trying to solve a troubled relationship with a married man, takes her mother's place on the election commission. In the meantime the mother (Iva Janzurová) is going through her own small domestic crisis with her husband (Leos Sucharípa). Thanks to excellent acting performances and restrained direction, the film convincingly outlines interpersonal relations and their light social overtones.
- A magical production about the end of a critical love between a pair of entertainers is a sensual geyser of colorful images, captivating music, and unorthodox humor. The rigorous over-styling with its Felliniesque touches and dramaturgic freedom brought out the comic side of the many Czech stars cast in nontraditional roles.
- Oskar (Krystof Hádek) loves computers and spends most of his time either in front of a monitor or with his friend Filip. When Oskar is rejected by a girl who then turns around and begins dating their rich classmate, Oskar decides to radically change his life in order to get the girl of his dreams. He spends the last of his allowance on changing his appearance and finds work with a computer company. He gets his first few breaks and soon has plenty of work to keep him occupied while transforming into a smartly dressed businessman. Everything was on the right path until a little accident happened that Oskar would really like to forget. Instead, he is forced to prove himself as an expert in quite a different field than he is used to. He ends up in a whirlwind of bizarre situations and events from which he sees no exit. He has little time for his friend Filip, school, or even work as a programmer. He's at his wit's end, but his troubles have just begun...
- As a psychiatrist, Frantisek (Josef Polásek) should have his private life under perfect control, except that he's too fond of women. In addition to his wife Eliska (Ela Lehotská), he's in several other relationships, a problem which one day gets out of hand. Now aged forty with an established, lucrative practice and a new dream house, he suddenly doesn't know where to turn and what to save first. When his secret life as a skirt-chaser comes out into the open, he sees all too well how suddenly, unexpectedly and completely his "perfect" life, envied by everyone around him, can grind to a halt: in one day, he loses his psychiatrist's license, the roof over his head and his wife, too.
- The screenplay (Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder inspired a theatre production by Dusan David Parízek. The screenplay and the production in turn inspired the film ODPAD MESTO SMRT (Waste, City, and Death) by Jan Hrebejk. Romi (Gabriela Mícová), a prostitute, is anything but successful at her job: she is of far too gentle a nature for her clients. The more obstinately she is pushed to the streets by her pimp Franz (Stanislav Majer), the closer she is to a complete breakdown. One day Romi is addressed by a property speculator referring to himself as a "wealthy Jew" (Martin Finger). He does not demand any sexual services of her. He satisfies himself with Romi telling him stories, for which he lavishly rewards her. However, no one shares the sudden happiness with Romi. Her work-mates and current clients turn their backs on her, as does Franz, with whom Romi is in love. The whole story takes place in the setting of a dilapidated city, during the clean-up of which politicians openly split their profit with speculators and lobbyists, all under protection from the police.
- Gypsy tells the story of Adam, a boy who, after his father dies, tries to cross the boundary of his Roma shantytown and to improve the lives of his brothers and sisters. He encounters racial, social and cultural prejudices and comes into conflict with the unwritten laws of his own community. Circumstances turn against him and his situation drives him to commit a tragic act: murder.