Felix le Breux Movies

A group of wealthy American Jewish businessmen have been captured by the SS and are told that they are to be traded to the American army for several...

As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and...

The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers...

Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most...

The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial...

This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because...

Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I --...

A student commits suicide out of unhappy love to a married man; story is recounted in retrospective by a "judge" who asks the audience to decide who...

The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I.

Cold War Spy FIlm

Explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and...

People are afraid of the usurer Chazaj and are convinced that he is the bearer of evil. One day Chazaj pays a visit to the poor artist Simon...

During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every...

Venice Film Festival 1955