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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.
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
Facets Multimedia
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
Czech
Formats
Description
Tells the true story of the last of the notorious witch hunts in Czechoslovakia in the 1600's. A ruthless inquisitor spins the superstitions of local peasants into religious heresy, finding cause to accuse dozens of innocent men and women of witchcraft. The inquisitor targets nobles and merchants, whose goods and properties are then confiscated. After suffering an array of medieval tortures, most confess and are then burned alive as witches.
Series
Criterion collection volume 144
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Story of a young woman who like her friends is very concerned with men and love. A reserve army group comes into town and she falls in love with a pianist, who after swearing eternal love leaves for his home.
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,...
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
Czech
Description
This version of the well-known fairy tale presents Cinderella as an independent and energetic girl who has a happy childhood as a nobleman's daughter. After her father dies, her stepmother reduces her to the position of maid at the farm and ends her carefree days until, with the aid of her three pigeons and three magical nuts, Cinderella manages to land the Prince of her dreams.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
During World War II and the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, a couple, Josef and Marie, decide to hide a young Jewish neighbor in their small apartment. They keep getting a visit from their neighbor, Horst, who is a German sympathizer and has his eye on Marie. When she rejects his advances he seeks revenge by trying to move a Nazi clerk into their home, forcing the couple to tell a lie that will change their lives forevr.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
Czech
Description
Fanda is an old man who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated wife, Emilie, and son who want him to make some serious about the future, he ignores their nagging and spends his days seeking amusement and adventure. Aided by a pal, Fanda keeps his acting skills sharpened by pretending he is a retired opera star in the market for an opulent country estate. When he fakes his own death, his wife decides she has had enough and files for...
13) Kolya
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires setting off a wild set of circumstances--and leaving him with a pint-sized new roommate.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
Czech
Description
A dysfunctional family, including a college professor, his long-estranged son and the lover they both shared are reunited. Two petty pickpockets attempt to rob a black belt in karate. A dimwitted soccer hooligan's wife buys a baby in a pawnshop. These are just a few of the unconnected strangers who find a common connection.
15) Žert =: The joke
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
Film Movement volume 4, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Czech
Description
Something like happiness: A trio of friends residing in an urban Czech housing project find that happiness can come from the place where you least expect it in this quirky and heartfelt drama. As the shadow of the country's largest chemical factory looms large over their bleak industrial suburb, Monika, Tonik, and Dasha hold out hope for a brighter future in another place. While supermarket employee Monika's dreams are built around the hope that she...
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...
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
Criterion collection volume 145
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Czech
Description
In a small provincial town, arrangements and events surrounding the firemen's annual ball, honoring a retiring firechief, go wrong at every turn.
20) Šilení =: Lunacy
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
Czech
Formats
Description
A young man becomes involved with a decadent marquis and his lavish and kinky lifestyle in 19th century France.
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