Discoveries from Czechoslovakia World Cinema

A silent version of Cinderella.

Thieves Svarc and Cihák are interrupted in their robbery of a jeweler's store. In order to disappear as quickly as possible, they jump into the nearest car and leave, finding on the way that a little boy named Jirka, son of the car's owner, is with them. They take him to a cottage where Cihák's eighteen-year old daughter Milena attends to him. Jirka first treats Milena with hostility, but as days pass, the "prisoner" and the "guard" become close. Milena cooks for the boy and takes care of him, but nothing can intimidate the dauntless Jirka and he seeks for the first opportunity to escape.

Documentary about the emergence of the strike movement in the iron ore mines of Rudňa in Slovakia. The miner Michal Ogurčák introduced a new way of mining iron ore here, overcame initial misunderstandings, and eventually inspired 160 followers to perform striking feats by his example.

Poetic documentary about works of several artists from ideas to “births” of works of art.

A short animated film from 1990.

A love story in which two brothers - naive officer Yuri and demonic lover Alexander - compete for the young married princess Vera.

An original TV play. The main character is twelve-year-old Ivan. He lives a lonely life under the patronage of a strict aunt who wants him to be an "exceptional person". After the death of Ivan's mother, Ivan's father has withdrawn into himself and forgets that his son needs not only financial security, but also a friend in his father.

Defence education film intended for children and young people, in which young heroes switch from the class to the training ground and their job is to fulfil a number of onerous tasks. Audiences are educated using the example of a young boy who repeatedly fails to overcome obstacles and who is taught by more adept pupils and the teacher.

Three men collect water in a jar to be transported to water a flower but not eveybody does their equal share of the lifting.

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.

Alfons Karásek has an important task ahead of him – to introduce his young protégé, who is still very inexperienced in this field, to the art of seducing girls. The opportunity arises on a hunting trip…

While walking along the tracks, a young man encounters a 96-year-old man who lives inside a tunnel and refuses to leave.

The Lakota king is so stingy that he wants to marry his only daughter, Princess Forgetful, to Prince Bohatu, even though the girl doesn't like the groom because he is conceited and "empty-headed." But at the right moment, the blacksmith's son Ondřej, a singer, appears on the scene and protects her from unwanted marriages...

A television reporter visits the clerk, Mr Drobny, who answers dating ads and makes appointments with many women.

A lyrical B&W tone poem of the pre-WWII Czech countryside: athletic young men and women canoeing down the River Lužnice, passing medieval castles and sleepy half-forgotten villages. Silent with music.