Jiří Menzel Movies

When he returns to Prague from a stint in the Army, Lada does not seem to fit in anywhere, and he cannot get the hang of the system of deliberately...

Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case...

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.

Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been...

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

The story of a family that is forced to flee the ČSSR in 1969 and seeks a new home in Germany.

Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat...

The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.

A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.

The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this could compromise the minister, who is an admirer of...

The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried...

Ivan, in his early forties, returns, after many years of absence to his native town - a typical Middle - European small town in Northern of Croatia....

A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments. Great mystery is immediately...

A fairy tale of three brothers who try to save a princess kidnapped by an evil wizard.

Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty. Now he is playing time from time to rich...

The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very...