Jiří Menzel Movies

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...

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...

Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.

A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three...

Prague 1994, hotbed of international profiteers. Here you can still find buyers for discarded everyday objects, here you can still buy cheap houses -...

An idiosyncratic reflection on the film Larks on a String and its history, shot by it's director Jiri Menzel.

Two young technicians, Filos and Kája, come to a small village that is a bit cut off from the rest of the world in order to find the best...

A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded...

A celebrated theatre director’s perfect life unravels when his wife’s secret lover exposes the hollowness beneath his success, leading to...

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

Kateřina works at an inn run by her evil stepmother. One day, she meets a young man she doesn't know in the forest. He is Prince Jan, and he is...

A young man studying law finds a place to stay with a young conductor, thinking that he will find an idyllic Lesser Town atmosphere here and will be...

In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint....

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

The series of children's films about Detective Martin, who intervenes in cases involving children, begins with this film. It consists of two short...

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...