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- An engaging poetic story, taking place at the time of the German occupation of the Czech Lands, about two people of totally different background - a young half-Jewish girl and an itinerant musician - becoming close to each other. During their dramatic and hazardous wandering about the Czech countryside, they both learn to be tolerant, responsible, and to love selflessly, which helps them withstand the horrors which surround them.
- The detective story set in the early 20th century is full of suspense, twists and emotions. Love, hate and desire for revenge are the strongest motivation for the trio of its protagonists. Military trenches are still full of war victims when superintendent Mondl arrives from Vienna in a small Czech town with the task to track down the serial killer of young men and dispel all doubts that the murders are ritual. Who is the perpetrator, and what is his motive? Suspicion gradually centers on a few persons, including Alma. Once employed as a cook, she now takes care of a little orphaned girl Lea, previously a patient of a mental sanatorium, daughter of her deceased former employer. The experienced detective wants to believe that there's a streak of good waiting to be released in every human being. Human animals once damaged the innocent soul, and got their comeuppance. The detective finds the truth, and opts for justice. But merciless fate soon pays him back.
- A cartoon series starring two rabbits who live in a magician's top hat. Bob and Bobby are two fun little characters who think up something new to do every day. Even with the best of intentions sometimes things go wrong, but their jolly adventures usually have a practical message: exercising is healthy, work can be fun, and sharing is a great way to be a good friend. Bob and Bobby also tell kids to never cheat, be lazy or start fights - and also that it's wise to eat plenty of carrots.
- The hero of this comedy is Jakub, who is a psychologist. He tries to help others, but is less successful in solving his own problems. He is in debt, has a mortgage to pay as well as alimony and child maintenance, and is refurbishing his consulting room. He is utterly exhausted. On top of it all his brother asks him to take care of their elderly father, who is getting to be ever more helpless and is in the early stages of senile dementia. The old man is like a naughty child and looking after him brings about some grotesque situations for Jakub. At the point when the situation has become practically intolerable for Jakub, vis major intervenes in the form of a special medicine with incredible effect: BrainStorm. And so they all get a second chance to set right what they had not managed to during the time originally allotted by nature.
- A computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation.
- Czech series about the life and work of acrobats, tamers, clowns, and other employees of Circus Humberto, spanning the period from the first half of the 19th century until the time of the first independent Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1939), based on the famous novel by Eduard Bass that played such a vital role in anti-fascist resistance, as Bass saw beyond the horizon of the time of war and Nazi occupation, to the future without fascists, racial theories, and one nation holding others in contempt. The series tells the life stories of six generations of the famous Humberto family--touching biographies of people for whom the circus ring became fatal.
- A fairy tale based on motifs taken from Josephine tales. Like Josef II, the fictitious emperor Maxmilián often disappears from the castle in disguise in order to find out how his vassals live. On one of these 'trips' he meets a drummer returning home from his stint in the army. They live through various adventures together, meeting bandits as well as human foolishness and perfidiousness which almost leads them to the scaffold.
- A portrait of a small Moravian village and its quirky inhabitants.
- An ordinary man with an ordinary job, ordinary family and ordinary affair has an unordinary day after he signes the Charta 77.
- Vibrant lady Irena Ditrichová owns a large prosperous firm with subsidiaries abroad. After being involved in a serious car crash, she decides to sell the firm and use the proceeds for helping people in need. When her son Jaroslav finds out that she's started handing round her possessions which he was supposed to inherit, under the pressure of his very materialistic wife he starts trying to have his own mother declared legally incapacitated. But grandson Lukás comes to Granny's help and engages a lawyer, her friend of long standing. During the court hearing the lawyer develops an essential reflection: is it possible to declare that a parent is suffering of dementia only because she handles her possessions freely even despite the disapproval of her children?
- The Kingdom of Three Lakes has been struck by an evil curse. The sorcery of magic beings has removed all fish from the local lakes, in order to punish the arrogant King Boleslav for having stolen the prophetic Fish Eye for his new wife, the haughty Queen Gabriela. And as it often happens, worst affected by the punishment of potentates are the common people, in this case those for whom fishing is the main livelihood. And so they start revolting. Meanwhile the thief and swindler Nevergive tries to worm his way into the favor of the royal family, claiming that he knows how to break the curse. He hopes to be helped by the magic wand which he's cunningly stolen from the magic beings, and thanks to it suddenly wields great power. But young fisherman Ludvik turns up in the kingdom, and there's hope that he will be the one to break the curse, save the kingdom and win the hand of Princess Lidunka.
- Your life is an extreme situation for them. They are young, pampered, and only just starting to familiarize themselves with the environment and the professions about which they have so far had a vague idea but also great preconceptions.
- A drama focusing on the age-old conflict between faith, family and love in which every is hard. The lyric unfolds in Sub-Carpathian Ukraine in the 1930s. An enclave of Jews living there rigorously adheres to their ancient customs, religious rituals and tradition. Among them lives a young woman, Hanele. For love, however, she manages to break away from the faith of her ancestors and to even break with her family. But her decision also brings about a split with the entire community which then makes her feel the horror of damnation.
- Wanting to test her suitor Lubos's character and his relation to her son Vasek, Anna accepts his offer for her and Vasek to spend summer holidays at his father's country house. She's looking forward to family ease and peace, but Granddad, Lubos and Vasek have different plans.
- A family comedy about a venturesome schoolboy Vasek and his search for his father, supposed to have perished during a mountaineering expedition in the Himalayas. The story confronts the adult world with that of the boy, his dreams and desires - a world which simply refuses to accept things that goes against his ideas of what's good and fair - Till the moment when one day during holidays, Vasek introduces Lubos, a brave member of the mountain rescue service, to his Mum.
- In September 2000 two global financial institutions - the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank - held their sessions in Prague, the city in the middle of Europe. This brought about a gathering of people who wanted to express their displeasure with the existence of these organizations. A film camera and a small digital camera recorded the parallel local events of two weeks. In the documentary we become witnesses to different ideological conceptions as well as grotesque situations.
- Appearing on the scene in the series of thirteen detective stories is the Prague underworld of the 1920s and 1930s. The trio of police inspectors hunting for criminals from petty thieves to murderers under the baton of police counsel Vacátko pull well together, and no sinner escapes them. But you won't escape either, as they will take you captive by their peculiar humor and perfect solutions of the cases with which they are confronted.
- Twelve-year-old Libor lost his parents in an automobile accident. He lives in luxury at the house of his rich uncle and aunt, has everything but lives a life barren of emotion. On the way back from a party at the boarding school for the children of the wealthy, Libor is kidnapped and held for ransom. However, Libor escapes his kidnappers and gets to a small railway station in South Bohemia. This is where the Panenka family lives, and after various emotional twists the boy realizes that he has found a home. And truly so, because they are mistaking him for someone else.
- Ten-year-old Fanynka is the star of the local gymnastics team. She lets her fellow pupils know that she is the best and they play her at her own game. She has a complicated relationship with her mother and lives alone with her father. Her mother left them some time ago, remarried and is now pregnant. Fanynka finds this hard to accept and as a result is unable to concentrate on gymnastics. A serious injury from a fall shifts her out of the limelight and leaves her in a wheelchair. She grapples with the consequences of her injury but, above all, tries to gain the trust of people who are close to her.
- Little Lojzík, whose mother was struck and killed by lightening, lives on a farm with his father and their old manservant. He perceives the raw surrounding world as images promising him his mother's lost embrace. The young boy searches in vain for someone out of all those near him to connect with. He can't get support and security from his father, from his mother's sister, nor even from his stepmother who, at least at the beginning, sympathized with his troubles. The only one, in fact, with whom Lojzík can share his lonely fate as an abandoned young one is an ordinary chicken.
- An exciting story line is connected with the existence of a unique medieval work: Voynich's Manuscript. Investigators are trying to track down the murderer and put a stop to the evil but, at the same time, are themselves threatened. In a dramatic duel with an unknown killer the shocking connection is revealed. Where does the strange plant come from? Why will someone kill repeatedly for a single leaf of this unknown plant? The story takes place in the old part of Prague. We enter its intricate network of ancient underground tunnels - where something inexplicable happens. Disturbing traces at crime scenes take our religious scholar not only to a Masonic lodge, but also to a strange place where he meets a mysterious creature. His investigations, full of twists and unexpected complications, lead to a surprising outcome.
- The main hero of the story is Filip (Filip Cíl), a boy dogged by bad luck ever since his birth. All because his father tried to outwit Fortune herself, thus calling her wrath down on himself and - what's worse - on his son as well. To make things even worse, Philip falls in love with Fortune's lost daughter Hannie. In an effort to win her love, and also in order to shake off the bad luck with which he's bedeviled, Philip sets out into the wide world. Of fateful importance is his encounter with a man suffering from a strange addiction: lying (Ivan Trojan). He has lied his way through life so far that he has forgotten his name, and calls himself Anybody. Surprisingly it is this funny crony who helps Philip win the uneven struggle for his sweetheart.
- Like every dog, Fík was a sweet little puppy at first. But he grows so fast and to such a size that he becomes the terror of the neighborhood. Inside, however, he is truly kind and clever. His adventures start at home with his family, then continue at school where he is an exemplary pupil, and afterward out in the wide world. He sails the seas, flies a plane, visits Africa and the Polar Circle and returns home an experienced traveler.
- The film titled Small Town is a mosaic of stories and episodes from a small Czech town during the period of change between the totalitarian era and the post-communist capitalism that followed. A palette of small-time heroes who battle with the change of the social system and their personal position therein, sometimes more and sometimes less successfully. The major and minor events are based on the film director's own experiences, changed or supplemented by different degrees of poetic license. People try to go into business, to achieve restitution of property confiscated long ago by the communists, to steal and cheat in the new style, but with the old habits still rife.
- The story of a band that shaped history against their will. It is an artistic documentary looking back at the more than thirty years the band has been around, but rather than focusing on its history the main focus is on the conflict between creative freedom and totalitarianism. Although The Plastic People never called themselves a political protest group they became one of the symbols of resistance to the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 80s. Their imprisonment led to an international outcry in the field of culture and contributed to the launch of Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia.
- A real event, only transferred from the French into the Czech setting, inspired Andrea Sedlácková to write her story about a plot planned by a husband and his friend against a high-standing woman politician. The marriage of a bankrupt businessman and his successful wife - a cabinet Minister - is going through a crisis. The husband wants a divorce, but she refuses all mention of this subject before the parliamentary elections to take place in two years' time. His worldly friend is to help the husband to resolve this situation; he promises to seduce his friend's wife, and the film shots of her "affair" are to force her into a divorce.
- Crimson Sails is a film about a rusty 200-foot barge which, over the course of several months, is transformed into a theater and filled with playfulness, fantasy, cruelty, and love.
- The children's series reintroduces on the screen Mister Tau the charmer, along with his double, Uncle Alfons. It is impossible to tell them apart, and the cases of their mistaken identity in many comical situations guarantee to entertain all viewers, small and grown.
- Krystof, an architect whose main priority is his job, has been living for several years with Tereza, who has a somewhat different outlook on life. Their love story reveals the distinctness and contradictory nature of each person's subjective worlds and shows how the line between dream and reality differs in each and every one of us.
- Girlfriend of young Jakub is found dead and with his best friend Radek is looking for her murderer to avenge her.
- The effectively compiled experiences of a Greek boy who was forced to leave Greece in 1948 during the civil war and found a new home in Brno, Czechoslovakia, where he was brought up by his Greek grandparents. As a mature man the hero of this story revisits the places of his childhood in order to take his grandparents' ashes back to their beloved Greece. His encounters with places he had known so intimately that somehow seem faraway and distant now, evoke brightly etched memories of his childhood, dominated by a wise and beautiful grandmother and a naively patriotic grandfather - and also his school, friends and first loves.
- Pranks and horseplay are what royal scribe Janek and princess Amálka amuse themselves with most of the time. Preparations for a grand party are in full swing at the castle, and everything appears to be bathing in sunshine. Until a dark cloud emerges, in the form of three rich visitors with lord Dietrich at their head. The strange theft of their coffer full of gold and precious stones, of which Janek is accused, sets events into motion. In order to save his life, Janek has to slip away. Amálka, whom Dietrich claims for wife as a compensation for the stolen gold, soon follows him. Together they have to find the true perpetrator of the robbery the roots of which reach deep into the past, uncover the mystery of the secret sign on Dietrich's arm, and put right an injustice of long ago. In the process they find that they're coming ever closer to each other, and love is not long in coming. But their persecutors are hot on their heels, and getting rid of them is not going to be easy.
- A documentary study by Ivan Vojnár featuring people picked at random and famous personalities he has met in the Café Konvikt and other places in Prague. Not unlike figures from a Hrabal story, they represent a very broad range of types - from a mentally handicapped road-sweeper to a philosopher. Each person, even the most seemingly normal, is exceptional in some way. Most speak directly to the camera about their relations, work, simple and difficult problems, democracy and Czech society in general.
- The ever-changing world and the pulse of human hearts, And every second of this time, someone is dying. And there's always someone with him.
- During his routine work, Martin Urmann, employee of an advertising agency, discovers a series of cryptic messages inscribed by the architect into his structures, and sets out to decipher them. His way is lined with mysterious murders which are obviously connected with his search. The fascinating power of the world into which he is gradually descending makes it impossible for him to give up his intention. He has to reach the end, where he anticipates a revelation which will totally change his entrenched view of the world.
- During the night a girl had been found on the road, clothed only in a blood-soaked shirt; she had some weird diagrams on her stomach drawn in blood, and three figures of six on her forehead. She is not injured, but remembers nothing. Not long ago a student had been murdered whose body bore the same magic symbols as the girl's. A police commissioner and an experienced expert on black magic and magic rituals join forces to search for the perpetrators of ritual series murders linked to the mysterious existence of the Devil's Bible - the largest manuscript book in the world.
- A fairy tale about a princess who is growing up without her mother. He father the king, a kind and righteous man, loves her dearly, but is determined to marry her off at all costs: no-one knows why he's in such a hurry. He organizes a grand ball in the chateau, at which a number of princes curry for her favor. But the one whom the princess chooses herself is not at all to the liking of her Dad - for reasons which nobody understands. It's not until later that we learn about the ancient curse, the Queen of the Witch Realm, and the Snow Dragon. For the curse to be annulled, the princess and her intended have to undertake a difficult and dangerous journey during which they are confronted with many obstacles, to find out at its end that only true love can triumph over evil.
- The story of two old ladies, who are temporarily brought together by the disastrous flood. Gabriela, a prominent citizen of a small town near Prague is an artist's widow and lives alone in a large apartment. When she sees television shots showing the terrible flood and the damage it caused in Prague, she decides to offer a temporary home to an elderly lone woman. Vera arrives next day with only one bag of personal effects, which she managed to salvage from her flooded flat. Thus begins the story of two lonesome old ladies with different characters and different pasts, a story that is not really about the flood disaster, but about human loneliness, mutual confidence and friendship, about two human fates that became intertwined for a short stretch of time.
- Detective Kunes has a problem once again: he's lambasted the boyfriend of his ex-wife, and is threatened with dismissal from the police service. His high-ranking (female) boss has a solution for him: "removing" him on an internships in a back-of-beyond borderland region. But there's a fly in the ointment. His real mission is to unravel the two-year old case of the murder of policewoman Wágnerová, the investigation of which has reached an impasse. But the crime rate in the borderlands is one of the highest in the whole country - involving smuggling, drug production, poaching, prostitution and murders. Kunes has to deal with one difficult case after another, and it takes quite some time before he can start doing what he's sent to do, and then he does it in fact by coincidence.
- In a small town, preparations for a theatre show are in full swing. The play on the program is based on a local legend about a huge treasure hidden deep underground. Many are those who wish to find it, but whoever sets out to look for it never returns. The protagonists of the performance are two sisters, Kacenka and Barborka, and musician Jakub, Barborka's jealous boyfriend. The theme of the play appeals to the greedy lord of the chateau Borivoj of Hájek, who comes with his brother Ignác, eccentric inventor and explorer. While somewhere underneath, at the real treasure, its three ghostly guards sit and devise all sorts of pastimes which do not please the Ruler of the Underground at all. His patience runs out when the bored guards interfere with the fates of the humans - making a bet about how the relationship between Jakub and Barborka will turn out.
- The plot of the successful Czech fairy-tale film The Princess from the Mill begged to be continued. While it seems that happiness has settled in at the mill for good after Eliska and Jindrich get married, this is actually not the case. The lord prince will not let their joy continue because he hasn't yet stopped thinking about the beautiful Eliska. He and his servant Jean concoct a bit of subterfuge: they send Jindrich off to fight the Turks. But luckily Eliska and her infant daughter Terinka have allies living with them at the mill - a clever and merrily devilish imp and a water goblin.
- Three army deserters hide in old castle that has fallen to ruin. Inside they find a hospitably laid table and three totally veiled girls, who tell the men that they can stay at the castle in safety and comfort if they fulfill a single task. They are to spend the night with the girls without touching them, without lifting even a tip of their veils. This seemingly simple task is fulfilled by only one man, Jakub (Vojtech Dyk). In reward he is given a falcon feather which has the power of three lives. Jakub sets forth on his wanderings with this precious gift - how he uses it, is now up to him alone.
- A dramatic love story, taking place in the final days of the Second World War when the American Army liberated the Pilsen region of West Bohemia. Anne lives with her mother, husband and stepchildren at a solitary country farm. But her life is not what she would wish it to be. She had previously lived with her aunt in London, and the only reason why she returned to Czechoslovakia was to look after the orphaned children of her sister. She married their father, but the rural environment is alien to her, and neither does she get on very well with her husband. A group of American soldiers arrives at the farm, having strayed away from their designated route of advance. To their great surprise, they are welcomed by a young woman who speaks fluent English, and invite her to go with them to Pilsen as an interpreter. Anne long hesitates, well aware that she attracts the affection of one of the soldiers, and herself becomes fond of him, too. She feels that the trip to Pilsen could mean an essential change in her life.
- The documentary dramatization Vincenz Priessnitz is a story of the man to whom water offered up its secrets. Priessnitz was seriously wounded at age 16, but was able to heal himself through intuition and close observation of nature. In 1822 he founded the world's first hydropathic institute in Austrian Silesia, which gained great renown within only twenty years. In addition to the thousands of ordinary people he cured, he also treated rulers and many outstanding personalities. Unfortunately, he also had to confront superstition, fear, intrigue, and envy.
- Why do people like returning to their childhood in their memories? Most probably because seen through children's eyes, the world is better and merrier than as adults perceive it. Close before the outburst of World War II, little Vera, accompanied by her widowed father and stepmother, boards a train which is never to return to the North Moravian village from which it departs. The inventiveness and indomitable optimism of her near and dear ones see her through the hard war time.
- An episodic film centered around three magic moments of 1999, each tale connected by the town of Telc and its inhabitants. The section entitled Murder by a Whispered Word is about a newspaper editor commissioned on Good Friday to interview a famous sportsman and would-be-poet. Eclipse of Hope relates the story of how a person's life can change in a matter of an hour when the moon passes between the sun and earth. The plot of Foolish Maidens takes place on the last day of the year when fate strangely brings together three amorous couples. The film uses a combination of acted passages and documentary footage.
- The film is the story of a search undertaken by the Czech tourist guide Tomás Egermaier, who had become a chance witness to his countryman Patrik Lovický's arrest for holding drugs in the (fictitious) Asian town of Bandung. Tomás starts investigating the young man's past and the events that finally led to this long prison sentence. A story about the cruel fate that can hit anyone who considers drug smuggling from Asia an easy way of getting rich quickly, it was inspired by the true stories of young people who fell into this trap, were arrested and imprisoned. The Damned is also the first film on the subject of drugs that the Kingdom of Thailand officially permitted to be filmed on its territory.
- This project seeks to follow up on the highest tradition of Czech montage documentaries focusing on popular Czech acting greats. An intimate, entertaining, and perhaps even controversial approach using a stylized 'documentary drama' form. The first and most important level of the film is made up of images from films and television productions. In addition to the footage selected from legendary pieces, there are also special unexpected bits. What is important here is Mr. Brodský's personal relationship to individual films, roles and scenes. Surprising details, explanations and ironic notes are the glue and spice of this montage composition.