Discoveries from Czechoslovakia World Cinema

A B&W film poem of the Czech countryside and Weiss’s personal favorite of his early shorts. Mythical images of mountains and streams and rural farmers tilling the land make this a precursor to the mystical visions of the forest in ‘The Golden Fern’. Filmed traveling on horseback through the mountains of Ruthenia (then part of Czecholovakia, now part of Ukraine), shooting the diverse community with Ruthenians (Slavs), Jews and Roma all living in the same area.

Dramatic fates of people hidden behind a theatrical mask.

Tragicomic events in the idyllic town of Rukapán reveal both the prejudices of the local residents and their solidarity. The chronicle of the town of Rukapán captures the funny and tragic fates of its inhabitants at the end of the nineteenth century. Poacher Matěj saves the council of Zimmerheier in a buried mine, mayor Buzek is warned by an angel to stop drinking, and other events form a mosaic of the small town.

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...

In SIRIUS, a young boy whose most cherished companion is his loyal German shepherd devises his own form of resistance when the Nazis arrest his father, then order the confiscation of local canines, including his pet, to be retrained as attack dogs against the rebellious populace.

This wacky musical comedy builds on absurd ideas, parodic humour and many variously subverted references to famous...

While playing Indians two Czechoslovak pioneers are captured by the criminal who wants to cross the border illegally.

Dissolute Abel Beer, with the help of his debt collector friends - usurers, swindles a Prague Doctor Jakub Hlohovský out of a quiet house in Malá Strana. Jakub, familiar with the secrets and effects of various medicines, uses them to make himself look dead.

The story of the television film takes place in the picturesque scenery of the Slovak mountains, amidst beautiful nature. It is a balladic story about the relationship of two young people, about human dreams, desires, and passions.

Little Vinco longs to play in the village brass band even though his teachers say he has no musical ear. After many problems at home with his parents and at school, Vinco finally makes it in the village orchestra as a heligan player when he obeys his uncle Rafael and practices hard...

The kids were smoking secretly in a barn, set fire and fled. Feeling that the investigation closely, "sits on his tail" and soon will be declared to her parents, the protagonist escapes from home. The charred ruins of the barn, he meets a young man who is also why some carefully avoids meeting people, and tied him. According to the book Hoffmann Ota (Ota Hofman).

A dedicated chairwoman of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in cooperation with a StB major clears a politically immature researcher of the charge of aiding subversives...

A famous writer seeks the favor of a charming aspiring artist. However, Jarmila intends to dedicate her life to art, and men should have no other place in it than as models for the artist's work. So, the lovelorn Jan disguises himself as a fortune teller and a grandfather with a scythe, just so that the chosen beauty will notice him a little...

Two young boys, play hooky from school in order to explore an ultramodern world's fair. They take in the many marvelous scientific and industrial exhibits, obtain literature, eat food, and generally run amok.

A New Year's Eve television variety show from late 1979.

A military film of marital infidelity in which furloughs pose danger not only to the army but also to a soldier's family.

The fate of an unlucky director of a dismantled cultural house who temporarily believes in the meaningfulness of his actions, exposed to the pressure of many different difficulties.