Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...
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Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion...
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Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
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A picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up.
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An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence.
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Documentary about the making of Vera Chytilová's film DAISIES
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Prague Nights
A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious...
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This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world...
See moreBohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy)
A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to...
See moreVariations of a Theme by Gustav Mahler
Documentary short about the title composer, born in what was called "Czechoslovakia" when the film was made.
See moreA znovu Žebrácká opera
Two different productions of Václav Havel's Beggar's Opera reveal the political dynamics of Czechoslovakia before and after the velvet revolution.
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