Discoveries from Czechoslovakia World Cinema

A string quartet of students is about to rehearse a new piece when everything is drowned out by the repeated loud call for a general mobilisation...

A documentary about Prague's Old Town Astronomical Clock. In addition to the technical and artistic description, it also focuses on its history and legendary origin.

How do you wake up a sleeping puppet? Made by Trnka in collaboration with actor and puppeteer Josef Pehr, this winsome mix of live action and puppet play is enchanting entertainment for the youngest of viewers.

An experimental film from Jirí Lehovec, mixing the sound process with animated rhythms.

A poetic impression of the beauty and perfection of the work of the Dytrych bell casters, who cast new bells from bells destroyed by the war.

An unfinished film about a reckless water sprite and his jealous wife. Mum the water sprite rocks the little water sprites in a pond while the philandering dad water sprite enjoys himself with undines on the shore, playing love songs to a willow-tree fairy on his mandolin. The mum catches her husband doing this and forces him to return to the pond, back to his family, with slaps on his head. The film was not finished and submitted for censorship. The surviving negative did not contain any opening titles. The attribution of the title is only ex post and the year of production was estimated.

A construction film about how Hybeš, a wrecker, became a worker's correspondent.

Document about the last census in Czechoslovakia.

In addition to the so-called collective portraits, Drahomíra Vihanová also captures distinctive individuals - for example, she made films about the director František Vláčil or the piano virtuoso František Rauch. This series also includes a portrait of the singer Eva Olmerová, The Changes of Eva's Friend. This film met with a very contradictory audience response after its completion. Here the director attempted to capture the form of a human being, the ups and downs of an undoubtedly brilliant singer. The empathetic viewer will soon understand that this film is like life itself: it is harsh, loving, there is an irritating volatility, a restlessness of the soul, reconciliation, compassion, humility and passion. And this applies not only to the filmed Eva Olmera, but also to the director Vihan.

The third episode of the series "Hey, Mister, let's play", in which the heroes are two bears, one foxy and the other naive. In this episode the big bear out-smarts the small one by convincing him that the fish he caught is a spellbound princess.

A view of man's perpetual struggle for self-destruction, in which we glimpse a world where rockets are part of everyone's lives.

Post-war cinematic reckoning with People’s Fascism and its representatives.

A humorous reflection on the relationship between the sexes throughout history.

A short reportage from post-war Slovakia. President Edvard Beneš came to Banská Bystrica to celebrate the first anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising. His journey through Central Slovakia was a motivating and celebratory moment for the people and the compatriots from the areas of partisan fighting.