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- The film provides a personally truthful yet harsh life story of a hero and dropout. The world-renowned photographer Jan Saudek, winning international awards and being exhibited abroad long before he had gained recognition in his native country, appears in many roles in front of the camera. Often changing them, he surprises or even shocks. Nevertheless, even the best illusionist is incapable of hiding from three cameras and the unmerciful eye of the director. War, suffering, losses, blind love, dreams of a family, the intangible glory of fame, poverty, condemnation, lack of appreciation counterbalanced by wealth and sky-high freedom in the unstoppable aging process. This and much more is portrayed in this riveting documentary film about the life and work of the most famous Czech photographer.
- Former cop Filip Marold (Jan Dolanský) doesn't want to be reminded of some things from his past. But others remind him... He works as a private detective, sleeps with his secretary and spies on people for money. All up to the moment when he meets seductive Raluca (Malvína Pachlová) and his life turns upside down. Is it just a coincidence? Fate? Or has someone set a trap? Even in his wildest dreams he wouldn't imagine the things that were about to happen. Things that involve sex, murder, the big reveal and a harsh reminder of that damn past...
- The life and work of internationally renown provocative Czech photographer Jan Saudek.
- 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.
- A sequel to a cult Czech fantasy comedy The Girl on a Broomstick (1972). Once upon a time, there was a young and very stubborn pupil of magic, Saxana (Petra Cernocká), who escaped from Fairyland into the human world, fell in love with a mortal and lived happily ever after - keeping her past a secret from everyone. Now, her 9-year old daughter, Saxanka, discovers her mother's secret past and is seduced into the magical realm of wizardry, sorcerers, dwarfs, monsters, fairies... and evil comic book characters. Saxanka, accompanied by her new friend, the pixie Krakavous, visits Fairyland only to be immediately mistaken for her mother and forced to serve her mother's 300-year detention. Saxanka luckily escapes but is haunted by bloodcurdling wolves, the school guards. But there is a bigger danger in the air. Saxanka's extroverted (and desperately-husband-seeking) Aunt Irma (Jirina Bohdalová) appears in Fairyland as well...
- A Prague weatherman gets a bad case of the seven-year itch.
- 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 woman is savagely raped and murdered. Several years later the police start to put together the clues and make progress on the case.
- Intimity is a romantic film of seven interrelated love stories where the couples in love give the viewer an insight into their intimate private lives at the moment when they are solving specific problems typical for their age and personalities. A teenage couple experiences first romantic love; young artists try to cope with success intervening with their private lives; self-destructive bohemian guy meets religious pure person; cheating husband has to make fateful decision; lazy cynic unexpectedly falls in love; self-centered elderly people with unsuccessful past try to have better future together; love also intervenes in the life of a high-end call girl. All stories come to a conclusion that can bring hope for the future. In essence, these seven stories are one big story of love.
- Eighteen-year-old Maruska (Aneta Krejcíková) lives with her grandfather Vlastimil (Petr Nározný) and she longs to meet her prince and experience the romantic love that she only knows from films. Then she really does meet the prince she dreamed of. She enjoys a wonderful summer vacation and her first amorous adventure with Marek, but also her first disappointment... Maruska's grandfather Vlastimil also finds out that true love never withers. He runs into his long-lost love Libuska (Eliska Balzerová) after several years. They are like two young love-struck fools. It is love with the scent of marijuana. The witty and colorful retiree Libuska has fallen for this medicinal herb in her autumn years...We'll get a glimpse of the first true love between youths, the crises of middle-aged love and the rediscovery of love in old age.
- Iska, Karolína, and Vendula are eighteen-year-old girls who have just graduated from high school. Not wanting to let go of their carefree student lives or their friendship, they plan to hitchhike to Holland, where they've arranged to work on a farm for three months. But Vojta, Iska's little brother and her father's right hand man, joins the trio against their will. He becomes a witness as well as a catalyst for the breakup of their friendship - for the girls recognize that time cannot be stopped. Dolls is a story about searching for love and finding oneself in the volatile time of late adolescence.
- A bittersweet comedy set just prior to 1984, during the era of 'practical socialism'. For political reasons, Bedrich Mára (Bolek Polívka) has had to give up teaching at Prague's Academy of Art. He is not allowed to exhibit and has been pushed to the sidelines of interest and lucrative commissions. He and his ceramicist wife (Eva Holubová) and two sons live in a small apartment on the outskirts of Prague. Míla Brecka (Jaroslav Dusek), the school principal, and his family stand in stark contrast to the Máras. Comrade Míla and his ambitious wife (Vilma Cibulková), Bedrich's fellow student from the Academy, have gone with the socialist flow for years. They find justification for their behavior in the usual words: 'Someones got to swim along with them to make things better; someones got to make that sacrifice!'
- The descent from the top of the ladder to the bottom of the barrel can be swift. Sometimes just one sentence suffices to destroy everything you've built up like a house of cards. A respected doctor, beloved father, and husband (Ondrej Vetchý) faces very serious criminal charges. Overnight he exchanges his high-class address for a custodial-prison cell, a place from which proving his innocence proves difficult, especially when the opposition is being aided by a man who could be motivated by personal revenge. It's said that the truth always prevails over lies and hatred in the end, but that doesn't necessary guarantee victory.
- This story of one day during which a life can be turned upside down was written and directed by Alice Nellis and produced by Oscar winning director Jan Sverák. Julie (Iva Bittová), a translator, has just moved into a new house with her husband Richard (Karel Roden), and their teenage daughter Cecilie (Martha Issová). Their life is supposed to be that of a perfect, happy family. Hearing news of the death of her favorite singer is the starting point for Julie to realize that her life is not as ideal as it seems. First, she gets an impulse to buy a piano. Then, during just one day's journey pursuing this idea, she changes her life completely. She must resolve her past and present first if she wants to start a new life.
- A love story of the 21st century. Hoping for change, Ema (Jana Plodková) runs away from her family and leaves her husband. She hides at the apartment of her hairdresser, a gay guy Tony (Ondrej Nosálek), even though she barely knows him. At the beginning they are merely two strangers, connected by their mutual effort of escaping from their families. They get closer and help each other to overcome the internal, as well as external, obstacles of their lives. Their liberating friendship almost becomes a love affair, despite the fact it cannot be fulfilled. This liberation creates an intense bond between them: a new escape, a new quest. This is a love story of two people and their attempts to escape the trap of their own desires of belonging to somebody.
- A screwup angel is exiled from the Heaven down to Earth, incarnated as a beggar.
- A black comedy based on director Petr Zelenka's successful stage play. It treats a simple theme: Jana has left Petr (Ivan Trojan), a boy 'who's not doing very well at the moment,' and he wants her back. In a film in which love seems like madness (and vice versa) many bizarre things rise to the surface. Petr's mother (Nina Divísková) sends blood to Chechnya. His father (Miroslav Krobot) once did voice-overs for newsreels and his wife forces him to dial a random telephone number in order to find out if people still recognize his voice. Petr's boss (Karel Hermánek) prefers a shop window mannequin to his own vivacious wife, the neighbors enjoy sex only if someone is watching them, and Petr has such lovely eyes... When things in his apartment start to liven up, Petr feels like he's going insane. Or is he the only normal one? Maybe everyone else around him is losing it.
- Bittersweet teenage comedy based upon the best-selling novel written by a seventeen year old girl, Johana Rubinova. Johana (Veronika Khek Kubarová) lives with her father and stepmother. Her own mother passed away when Johana was a little girl. It had been two years now, when Johana tried to commit a suicide, after experiencing a split-up with her first big love, a boy called Simon. Since then, Johana rather tried to avoid any new love romances. But one really cannot escape from that and she meets a new boy, Cogo. Even she is in love with him, she is not happy. Because one day Johana finds out that he is cheating on her with her best girlfriend. Johana is trying to recover from such a disappointment by investigating in her family history. She wants to find out more about her mother's death. The result of such investigation turns Johana's life upside down. And she has to recognize that people she lives with are really different from what she thought.
- The Director is in a difficult situation: the shooting of the film has been canceled, his production company is failing, and his long-term relationship with a famous actress is all over. The Director doesn't give up though: instead of going to see Sergej in order to pay him back, he buys an old 8 mm camera in a second-hand shop and 8 mm film, "borrows" his ex-girlfriend's car without her knowing it, and hits the road. He trusts that he is capable of shooting his yearned-for film all by himself.
- 7-year-old Marushka grows up in 1950s Prague, raised more by her relatives than her society-building mother.
- Four swimmers - water polo players find themselves at the bottom of their existence after losing a match. So desperate that they even find themselves living at the bottom of their emptied pool. To save their "dignity" they start a questionable business "Husband to rent" fixing home items for local housewives. But as time will show the household items are not the only things they end up repairing.
- 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.
- "I don't get how I can be forty-five next year, when I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up!" The story begins with Erica's (Ivana Chýlková) forty-fourth birthday where she fails to receive the biggest bouquet of flowers she can imagine, but she does get a nice good wish card from her ex-sister-in-law (Zuzana Bydzovská) , an embarrassing message in a radio show from her ex-husband, cream for wrinkles from her gay friend Richard (Ondrej Sokol) and a striptease artiste from her unfathomable mother (Zuzana Krónerová). She places the good wish card on show and, even if she curses herself for it, she is moved to tears, and the present in the shape of the striptease-artiste is immediately bagged by Richard. Thus appears the successful life of Erica Oskarová, the star of the program 'Before and After'. Erica has almost everything - her own TV program, a renowned hairdressing salon, a large flat with a terrace, and freedom. But with each year that goes past she yearns more and more for the one thing she does not have - a child. And that is how our film starts...
- Three brothers (Vojtech Dyk, Tomás Klus and Zdenek Piskula) leave their home to see the world. During their journey, young men as by miracle enter into famous fairy tales (Little Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Twelve Months) and face traps, unexpected moments and even love in a story full of humor and songs. Script and music of new fairy tale are based on popular musical theatre play Miniopers by famous duo of screenwriter Zdenek Sverák and composer Jaroslav Uhlír.