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The Mole is intrigued by a man who can repair a flat tire on a car using a remote control. He gets into the car and lets the man drive him to his house, where he takes advantage of another technological marvel—a machine that serves him food. The man falls asleep in front of the TV and dreams about what the world would be like without electricity and gasoline for cars...
Jan 1984
A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.
Jul 1986
A film documenting preparations for the 11th Sokol festival – from training in gyms throughout the country to practical issues concerning the organisation of the event. It shows how accommodation, catering, and transport in Prague were dealt with during the festival as well as how it was necessary to refurbish a stadium for it. It counts the numbers of workers and tons of material. It shows crowds heading to the stadium and it ends with the opening ceremony for the event.
Jan 1948
Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure out whether to get serious with a young nurse or to stay casual with his married lover. Things get complicated when both women don't want to play his game anymore.
Feb 1978
Laid-off old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives in an old, abandoned warehouse. New mannequins are brought to the warehouse. They are old as well, but from a younger generation. The two groups must live together, but it's not easy at all.
Jan 1989
Feb 1969
A story based on "The Mysterious Stranger" novel by Mark Twain.
Sep 1990
A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.
Oct 1984
Two pieces of meat fall in love.
A fairy tale about a good-hearted witch, and her friend the raven.
A man breaks into a large, seemingly abandoned old house to plunder the gold received. But the house is really abandoned?
Jan 1987
Jun 1969
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an iron fist. Katerina is driven by a lust for life and for love. Her husband, though, is impotent; her father-in-law a tyrant. No wonder, then, that she longs to free herself from this yoke. When Sergei starts work on the family estate, she sees in him a chance for salvation. However, their subsequent affair marks the beginning of a descent into crime.
Jan 1992
Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Apr 1996
Three mimes represent beetles in the real world of human habitation, which is proportionally huge for their beetle-like dimensions. They experience an extraordinary adventure of discovering ordinary things in human habitation.
Jan 1976
Jan 1980
In stop-motion animation, a wardrobe moves through the countryside. It arrives in a house, a child's voice recites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," and various objects, such as toys and dolls, move about, disintegrate, and play out archetypal scenes. Like Carroll's verse, the images are at once familiar and unfamiliar. A child's play suit, hanging in the wardrobe, becomes the adventure's protagonist.
Jan 1971
It's New Year's Eve afternoon and Honza, Jana and Zdeněk decide to go out into the karst area. Despite the express ban, one of them goes down into an unknown underground tunnel. When he doesn't return for a long time, the others go looking for him. But they soon discover that they are not enough on their own. Only the best rescuer, Karel Nousek, can save him. However, he is dealing with a complicated life situation. He loves his colleague's wife and is about to solve a love triangle. That evening, Olga wants to tell her husband that she is breaking up with him because of Nousek...
Jan 1982
Mamluk is an unassuming, handsome young peasant who happens to have come along just in time to save the king from a fatal trap, and as a reward, the king offers him the amount of land he can mark off by walking around in one day but he must return to the starting point before sunset.
Nov 1982