Jiří Menzel Movies

This film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák.

Two young technicians, Filos and Kája, come to a small village that is a bit cut off from the rest of the world in order to find the best...

Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been...

Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

Jirka, Roman, and Ivan have been friends since school. Today they are about 35 and, although they went into different fields, their friendship has...

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

A Roma laborer living in a shantytown strives to organize a traditional, dignified funeral for his wife following her sudden death. He travels to the...

A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat...

A celebrated theatre director’s perfect life unravels when his wife’s secret lover exposes the hollowness beneath his success, leading to...

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...

The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his sixtieth birthday party by the news from the...

Kateřina works at an inn run by her evil stepmother. One day, she meets a young man she doesn't know in the forest. He is Prince Jan, and he is...

The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this could compromise the minister, who is an admirer of...

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most...

A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three...

Prague 1994, hotbed of international profiteers. Here you can still find buyers for discarded everyday objects, here you can still buy cheap houses -...