Jiří Menzel Movies

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

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

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...

A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three...

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...

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 celebrated theatre director’s perfect life unravels when his wife’s secret lover exposes the hollowness beneath his success, leading to...

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...

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

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

When he was five years old, Ivan Hum was kidnapped and was forced to spend his formative years in orphanages, prisons and other institutions all...

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...

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