Ivo Špalj Movies

While the humans are away, the shoes in a cobbler's workshop engage in a number of activities, including flirting, kidnapping and a gunfight.

In the young man's imagination, the image of a mysterious house - a mystical building that symbolizes the spiritual world of an unknown faith -...

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...

The picture, unlike the other film adaptations of the story, focuses much more on Crusoe’s life before and after his stay on the island....

Two pieces of meat fall in love.

Jan Nemec, a leading filmmaker of the Czech New Wave, creates an original portrait of one of the most provocative artists of the 20th century: Toyen...

This controversial feature blends documentary, archival footage and fiction into an elliptical narrative in which two young people in Prague, an...

An animated exploration of the human head

A look at the legendary Czech sound designer and his profession. Editor and documentary filmmaker Adéla Špaljová has her father...

A film about fatal love, bad dreams, normal madness and unnecessary death.

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 dead soldier comes for his fiancée from the grave.

Cartoon tennis match, with players based on Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.

An animation film about a clarinet and a trumpet that meet, clash, compete, compromise and harmonize.

This bittersweet film was Roman Vávra's feature debut. The film consists of three independent stories, all connected through the motif of a...

A microbe enters the bloodstream of a young woman.

A satiric film travesty of Shakespeare's dramas set in the year 2000. The protagonists are to convince the audience that human passions such as love,...

Tomáš Etzler worked for seven years as a foreign correspondent in China. He came to know a country that was developing at an admirably...