Discoveries from Czechoslovakia World Cinema

A Czechoslovak industrial educational film.

Kuba and Amálka love each other, but Kuba doesn't want to get married yet, which makes Amálka a little sad. When Kuba learns from her that their pear tree is producing pears with long ears, he immediately gets an idea on how to make money from them. From that moment on, a real mess begins. Amálka does break the spell on the long-eared hunter when she gives him a real kiss, thinking it's Kuba. But then Kuba lets the cuckold princess taste the magic apple. Amálka is angry with Kuba and who knows if she'll help him this time. But - what if the cuckold princess really had Kuba's head cut off, as she threatens, and Amálka would lose her groom?

About a little boy who jumps out of his stroller and experiences the adventures of a cosmonaut.

A dreadful story about a pub keeper's daughter named Kacenka who liquidates a herd of robbers and so revenges for the death of her father. The commentary of the film imitates the style of old folk shopkeepers'songs.

The film essay is quite possibly the pinnacle of Václav Hapl's work. It focuses primarily on the topic of drugs, which it places in a broader framework, pointing out the self-destructive tendencies of modern civilization. Through his internal and to a certain extent veiled concept, he thinks very intensively about the dehumanization of humanity.

Dvorak's masterpiece. 1981 telecast conducted by Jan Štych.

A satire on the dangers of overly-oppressive child-rearing.

A married couple in which he is the older and powerful one and she is young and charming. Their mutual teasing, fussing and bickering filled a royal morning in the bedroom. The mighty King Henry VIII of England, who, as we know from history, had more than one of his wives put to death, and the last of them, Catherine Parr, using all the powers of her youth. The main dispute is over the colour of Alexander the Great's horse. Was he white or black? Will he, she, or the love that lies behind all the words win?

An astronaut travels to a remote and bizarre world populated by the common motifs of fairytales, such as a dark forest, mythic beasts and a sleeping maiden.

An early comic short film by Václav Vorlíček.

Documentary filmmaker Drahomíra Vihanová made a documentary Searching during the filming of František Vláčil's Concert at the End of Summer. The film was made between 1978 and 1979. Rather than a reportage, the film is an observation of the director's work. It alternates between black-and-white sequences with diegetic sound depicting the making of the film and colour sections that are silent or contain non-diegetic music, with František Vláčil at the centre of them, thinking and searching for inspiration and the ideal form for his film.

The little mole finds a green star and wants to place it back into the sky

Film portrait about folk artists - wooden spoon maker, basket maker, artist, who make useful and beautiful objects from wood.

A documentary picture of the coexistence of man and nature. Footage of one year in the life of Ľudovít Čonka and his wife, who are the only inhabitants of an abandoned island on the eastern Slovak river Latorica.

Blue Eyes has soft fur, big blue eyes, long hair and soft nose. He is an educated cat who keeps a diary and lives with his owner, a writer. He discovers the world around him and tells about all his two-legged and four-legged friends. He is rescued from a hole in the fence by a new friend, Beel Beard the cat, and makes other friends on holiday - Shramota the hedgehog, Beard the hunting dog and White Feather the rabbit. He also meets Kiki the cat and fights a huge, mischievous cat, Zlutyak, for her sake. Blue Eyes realizes that he is an adult, and eventually he and Kiki have four beautiful kittens.