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Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
Czech
Formats
Description
In this musical homage and spoof of singing cowboy films, a beautiful temperance crusader in the fictional frontier settlement of Stetson City is threatened by hard-drinking villains of the Trigger Whiskey Saloon. Riding to her rescue is clean-living Lemonade Joe, dressed in white and--as his moniker indicates--doesn't touch the "fire-water."
Series
Publisher
Facets Multimedia
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
Czech
Formats
Description
A scientist discovers how to change people's dreams and accidentally brings to life three characters from her husband's dreams--a voluptuous comic-strip heroine, a muscle-bound superhero, and a gun-toting cowboy. Worst of all, the comic-strip characters' word balloons get in everyone's way!
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
Czech
Description
Set in Stalinist Czechoslovakia during the 1950s, this tragicomedy revolves around the consequences of a single joke: a young man is expelled from university and the Communist party and sentenced to six years hard labor for an irreverent postcard he sends to a lady friend. This leaves him cynical, bitter, and out for revenge.
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A white carrier pigeon loses its way when it tries to fly home to the Baltic coast, where a young girl anxiously awaits it. Lost, tired, and ill, the bird lands in Prague. It is rescued by an artist and then gradually brought back to health by a small, frail boy. People's lives are changed forever by their encounter with the bird.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
Czech
Formats
Description
Sedmikrásky: Two teenage girls decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them.
O slavnosti a hostech: A group of happy picnickers are accosted by a group of strangers led by a bullying sadist who has an unbreakable hold over his followers. After he interrogates one of them, a stranger then invites everyone to a nonsensical,...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Czech
Formats
Description
Capricious summer (1968): In a sleepy, second-rate resort, three middle-aged friends have their lives disrupted by the sudden appearance of a magician and his assistant. The trio forget about swimming as each man sets about to seduce the assistant.
The joke (1969): Set in Stalinist Czechoslovakia during the 1950s, this tragicomedy revolves around the consequences of a single joke: a young man is expelled from university and the Communist party and...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Czech
Formats
Description
Five short films by the greatest directors of the Czech New Wave make up this extraordinary anthology ; based on the stories of legendary Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, the films represent a range of artistic expression and human emotion.
Film based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world.
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