Jiří Menzel Movies

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...

When he was five years old, Ivan Hum was kidnapped and was forced to spend his formative years in orphanages, prisons and other institutions all...

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

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...

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...

The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his sixtieth birthday party by the news from the...

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

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most...

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...

After many years, Anka Lomnická, a former countess and emigrant, arrives in Prague. By chance, she finds herself seated next to two characters...

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

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

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 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...

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

Jiří Suchý recalls two of the most prominent artistic and creative figures in Czechoslovak culture of the last century:...

By the end of the second World War, three prisoners wish to escape from the train carrying them from one concentration camp to another. To make it...