Ivo Špalj Movies

An interesting attempt at a postmodern crazy comedy with elements of parody. The plot turns on the search for the recipe of a liqueur made by the...

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies...

An adaptation of the 1764 work of the same name, the first Gothic novel. In this mockumentary, the amateur archaeologist Dr. Vozáb has set to...

Animated short film based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "A Torture by Hope".

A sensual summer comedy for discerning audiences. In a small town with a nostalgic swimming pool, a variety bar, and a pink pastry shop, a couple in...

In a cafe, people talk, their words become expresively-shaped balloons. An older waiter tries to connect with a young woman who's reading. She...

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to...

The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.

Three intertwined stories about Serbian truck driver who is involved into drug trafficking without knowing, Czech family who live by the road which...

In 1992, Prague is the capital of a small kingdom. The prince is supposed to choose his bride to be at a royal ball. But to everybody's surprise, he...

A group of teenagers are trying to solve a mystery of a puzzle created and left to them by the dead boy.

A tribe of survivors take possession of a large but rundown building, killing all who put up resistance - but they don't know that the building is...

It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.

A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways. The players...

The story is a celebration of the cleverness and wit of the simple peasant Čupera, who triumphs not only over the demon of alcohol, but also...

A story of an extraordinary artist who has unintentionally signed a deal with a devil. Jiří Trnka was one of the biggest Czech artists of...

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Barta’s masterpiece.

On a lonely island, where Odysseus has to serve the nymph Calypso, he remembers his great adventures: the glorious victory over Troy; the curse of...

Two pieces of meat fall in love.

The film recording of the ballet performance of the State Theatre in Brno was expensively realized in a theatrically stylized set built in the...