Jiří Weiss Movies

Directed by Jirí Weiss

Czech film tells the story of a border town in World War II. Family members and friends become enemies.

Building a bridge is no simple matter. The city council has to decide between two competing proposals, one of which is submitted by villainous...

This post-war film from the series Czechoslovak Film Chronicle shows the role of national committees in shaping the new face of the republic. Using...

The compilation documentary We Will Remain Faithful is a testimony to the Czechoslovak resistance during the Second World War. The film covers the...

A physically disabled lady is alone in her apartment one evening and has just accidentally overheard a conversation about a planned murder...

“The Carpathians are medieval!” one character bellows, and this tale of the tree-chopper Petro, his faithless wife Marijka, and various...

Screen adaptation of Julius Fucik's story about communist fighters.

An orphaned young woman named Jana moves into the household of Robert and his older, possessive wife, Klára. While Klára maintains a...

The fate of the insignificant poet Leonard Undene is transposed into the media atmosphere of the late 1960s. An ironic image of the times, a black...

In this reportage, film professionals offer the viewers a peek behind the scenes at the Barrandov studios. We see how sets are constructed and we...

A comedy about the post-war housing crisis in Prague, which several young people are struggling with. The young puppeteer Josef lives in a sublet...

Cold War Spy FIlm

A film about a boy who is protective of a runaway dog and the dog, who is protective of the boy.

The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta...

Weiss’s classic B&W agitprop short made after his escape to London just ahead of the Nazis. He carried with him three reels of material for his...

A B&W film poem of the Czech countryside and Weiss’s personal favorite of his early shorts. Mythical images of mountains and streams and rural...

Day in the life of members of 311th Czechoslovak Bomber Squadron RAF. After a brief introduction of their lives before the war, the narrative focuses...