Jiří Menzel Movies

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.

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

Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.

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...

Jiří Suchý recalls two of the most prominent artistic and creative figures in Czechoslovak culture of the last century:...

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...

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

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...

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 student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings,...

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

Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via...

"A man is immortal as long as he lives in the memory of others,” said well-known Czech writer Arnošt Lustig with a wry smile. In...

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...

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