Movies

A theater play by Václav Havel.

Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original...

A first-hand account of the tumultuous events of 1989 when a student-led revolution succeeded in overthrowing Czechoslovakia's repressive Communist...

Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about "jokes" under the Soviet Union.

A fictionalized autobiographical play written by Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel in 1984 upon his release from a...

Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memories, vivid recollections, and the occasional...

A visual dreamscape of Prague streets, a hallucinatory vision of a world from the operating table for robotic heart surgeries, collaged together with...

This time-lapse documentary follows the last years of former President Václav Havel's life, creating a multi-layered portrait of a...

Czech semi-documentary.

After imprisonment, Vanék can only take the worst work on a small village brewery.

A provocative snapshot of the world we live in. It is a well-known fact that our society is structured like a pyramid. The very few people at the...

Spotlights the Velvet Underground's 1993 reunion tour of Europe, interspersing footage of the band's Paris concert and interviews with the members of...

The ruined castle is inhabited by architects who, feeling the spirit of the place, want to direct the modernization of the settlement below the...

A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to...

The work of actors on a stage makes a dreamlike parallelism between artistic immagination and the concreteness of everyday life. Tribute to Prague's...

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

A César award nominated short feature.

Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska.