Jiří Menzel Movies

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...

The series of children's films about Detective Martin, who intervenes in cases involving children, begins with this film. It consists of two short...

Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case...

The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried...

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly,...

The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very...

Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but...

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

Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic...

Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty. Now he is playing time from time to rich...

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

This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about...

The second installment of children's stories investigator Dr. Martin. The film has two stories:

A recording of the legendary production “Audience“ from the Prague Drama Club with Josef Abrhám and Pavel Landovský. In...

Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his family...

A crime comedy directed by Jirí Menzel, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric...

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...