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artists' life

based on novel or book

Stefan Uher Director

Jolanta Umecka as Anabella

Eduard Bindas as Procurist

Otakar Janda as Raven

Ladislav Mrkvicka as Tristan

A film adaptation of the novelette of the same title written by Dominik Tatarka depicts the life of a young generation of artists that was formed in Slovakia during the war. Anabella, a young and beautiful girl meets a group of artists. She awakens their erotic desires but also pure feelings of love; she becomes the object of their secret fantasies as well as their artistic inspiration. And it seems that the boundaries between reality and fantasy suddenly cease to exist.

CzechMate: In Search of Jirí Menzel

2018

7.5

♡ 4

Shivendra Singh Dungarpur Director

Dusan Dusek as

Ken Loach as

Agnieszka Holland as Self

Milos Forman as Self

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 acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.

The Way of the Psychonaut: Stanislav Grof's Journey of Consciousness

2020

7.5

♡ 1

Susan Hess Director

Rupert Sheldrake as

Michael Murphy as

Jill Purse as

Susan Mokelke as

The Way of the Psychonaut explores the life and work of Stanislav Grof, Czech-born psychiatrist and psychedelic psychotherapy pioneer. Stan’s quest for knowledge and insights into the healing power of non-ordinary states of consciousness, influenced the discipline of psychology and profoundly changed many individual lives. One of those transformed by Stan is filmmaker Susan Hess Logeais. The documentary utilizes Susan’s personal existential crisis as a gateway to Grof’s impact, from the micro to the macro.

Kým sa skoncí táto noc

1966

Slovak

7.4

♡ 1

czechoslovakia

Drama

Peter Solan Director

Eduard Pavlícek as Kunert

Marián Labuda as Milos

Jitka Zelenohorská as Mira

Jana Gýrová as Olga

Two female clerks using up their savings to enjoy a few days of carefree life, two plumbers looking for an erotic adventure, a building contractor determined to drink away all wages of his workers and a former major who became an alcoholic due to political persecution — these people meet in a ski resort bar somewhere in the High Tatras. During one night they gradually reveal their unfulfilled dreams, illusions and disappointments of ”average" people of those times.

I Served the King of England

2006

7.3

♡ 5

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based on novel or book

prague, czech republic

Jirí Menzel Director

Pavel Nový as Generál

Julia Jentsch as Líza

Vladimír Kulhavý as Nemecký lekar

Adolf Hitler as Self

Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always discreet and use what he learns to his own advantage; but the turbulent tides of history will continually stand in his way.

Man on a Tightrope

1953

7.2

♡ 4

76%

Elia Kazan Director

Cameron Mitchell as Joe Vosdek

Fredric March as Karel Cernik

Terry Moore as Tereza Cernik

Gloria Grahame as Zama Cernik

The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.

The Fourth War

1990

5.5

♡ 8

64%

John Frankenheimer Director

David Palffy as Gawky Soldier

Harry Dean Stanton as Gen. Hackworth

William MacDonald as MP Corporal

Dale Dye as Sergeant Major

Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on opposite sides of the German-Czech border. Both men are responsible for a group of troops in their remote settings, and both have been shaped by their combat experiences and a shared aversion to their superiors' ways of doing things. After a defector is killed, things escalate into a full-fledged battle with serious geopolitical ramifications.

Fair Play

2014

6.8

59%

Andrea Sedlácková Director

Roman Luknár as Bohdan

Tatjana Medvecká as Doctor

Anna Geislerová as Irena

Vlastina Svátková as Nurse

In the 1980s, Anna, a Czech sprinter, starts training for the Olympics. After she collapses during training, she learns she is being given steroids and decides to stop using them until her mother helps the coaches give them to her.

The Savage Peace

2015

concentration camp prisoner

7.6

♡ 7

Peter Molloy Director

Michael Pennington as Narrator

Joseph Stalin as Self

Harry S. Truman as Self

Meda Mládek as Self

How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic Germans who had lived peacefully for centuries in Germany's neighboring countries, such as Czechoslovakia and Poland. A heartbreaking story of revenge against innocent civilians, the story of acts as cruel as the Nazi occupation during the war years.

Toman

2018

6.7

♡ 7

based on a true story

Ondrej Trojan Director

Jared Doreck as

Jaroslav Plesl as Imrich Rosenberg

Roman Luknár as Jan Masaryk

Miroslav Táborský as Jindrich Veselý

This fascinating historical drama looks at the life of "the Czech Schindler," Zdenek Toman, a controversial figure who was an unsavory politician and dubious entrepreneur, but also the savior of hundreds of Eastern European Jews.

The Firemen's Ball

1967