Discoveries from Czechoslovakia World Cinema

A young woman is haunted by the ghost of her husband, whom she killed. The soul of the husband takes the form of a dove.

A Czechoslovak animated short from 1964.

The mole finds an umbrella.

The wise criminal and his accomplices kidnap the beautiful Zea and prepare to put her in the bath that kills. Her husband manages to save her and it is the wise man who falls in his place and dissolves in the strange solution. The accomplices take to the cemetery a bathtub filled with a liquid in which the professor is dissolving. They spray the grave with said solution and that is when they are taken prisoner.

The mole meets the hedgehog.

A Czechoslovak industrial educational film.

How does an artist deal with official demands for constant reworking of his work? The film presents a conflict between an ideologically unencumbered creative intention and an ideological burden imposed on artistic creation, which ultimately reveals a very pragmatic and selfish intention.

A documentary about the work of lumberjacks in hard-to-access locations.

Animated film composed of three short separate parts. In one we watch the struggle of matches with a teapot. The matches will be helped by a candle and the matches will thank her very interestingly for disposing of the teapot. In the next story, we follow the story of a little weather pencil and a little knife who falls in love with her. But the knife is unlucky, and so in the end we see how the pencil turns out when instead of a knife he uses the services of a grater. The last story presents the relationship of clothes and irons. As in the previous cases, "gratitude for help"again comes into play. I'll keep the points of the individual parts for myself, so that you have something to watch if you're lucky enough to get to these films.

A short documentary about the production of movie marquee art for cinemas in Prague.

A famous surgeon - a trained chimpanzee named Sammy - is expected in the operating room to perform a challenging operation on a patient suffering from chimpitis...

This short compilation film not only celebrates Czechoslovakia’s most beautiful holiday resorts, but also emphasises the greater availability of local recreational sojourns in the new socialist order. It portrays touring as an ideal way of spending a holiday in the home country.

A picture of the ceremonial opening of the new school year.

A film about new forms of agricultural production in Slovakia.

A documentary about a vision care school that enables visually impaired children to learn the skills necessary for a full life.

A picture depicting VIII. World Academic Winter Games held in Czechoslovakia in 1949. It shows in brief all the sports competitions in which students from all over the world competed.

Cartoon based on the theme of the national artist Maria Majerová; the fairy tale of the hen and the rooster shows how ugly selfishness is and how nice it is when one helps the other.

Produced in the early 1960s, this documentary explores the consequences of large-scale state childcare in Czechoslovakia, where extensive crèche systems supported policies encouraging full female employment. Directed by Kurt Goldberger, the film draws on psychiatric research and observational footage of young children in institutional care, arguing that emotional and intellectual deprivation in early childhood had long-term effects. Initially controversial, the film circulated internationally and later came to be associated with policy changes extending paid maternity leave.