Jiří Menzel Movies

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.

How to marry off two daughters and a maid, especially when the father has no idea that it's high time? Father Ubaldo has worries; his two daughters...

A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings,...

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 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 love story of students Jana and Tomáš begins in Prague just after the establishment of the First Republic. Their impulsive "escape...

This film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák.

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

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...

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

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...

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

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

A comedy about a charismatic man who lacks the confidence of his surroundings. However, he was not completely satisfied with the original script and...

A recording of the legendary production “Audience“ from the Prague Drama Club with Josef Abrhám and Pavel Landovský. In...