Jiří Menzel Movies

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

The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried...

An opera troupe in a small town decides to perform Mozart's Don Giovanni. The view behind the scenes uncovers the world of opera without the glitter....

"A man is immortal as long as he lives in the memory of others,” said well-known Czech writer Arnošt Lustig with a wry smile. In...

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...

A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets...

Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica,...

A film about the uncertainties faced by a man in post-Communist Slovakia, his relationship with a teenage son and English teacher girlfriend who's...

The second installment of children's stories investigator Dr. Martin. The film has two stories:

The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very...

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...

Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.

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

An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric...

Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case...