Jiří Menzel Movies

An idiosyncratic reflection on the film Larks on a String and its history, shot by it's director Jiri Menzel.

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

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

The main character of the story which takes place in the twenties in Budapest is the poet Dr. Rácz György, who returns after ten years of...

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

Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...

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...

The love story of students Jana and Tomáš begins in Prague just after the establishment of the First Republic. Their impulsive "escape...

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...

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

A young man studying law finds a place to stay with a young conductor, thinking that he will find an idyllic Lesser Town atmosphere here and will be...

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...

A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.

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

How to marry off two daughters and a maid, especially when the father has no idea that it's high time? Father Ubaldo has worries; his two daughters...