Jiří Menzel Movies

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

The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried...

The King of Malabunt has won another war, after decorating himself and his three wooden marshals, he dismisses his army with a low wages. One of his...

When he returns to Prague from a stint in the Army, Lada does not seem to fit in anywhere, and he cannot get the hang of the system of deliberately...

A fairy tale of three brothers who try to save a princess kidnapped by an evil wizard.

Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica,...

The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.

A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets...

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

Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different for the mother of eighteen-year-old Frantisek,...

The general practitioner Balla and his wife abandoning her higher education begin their common life in the small mountain village in the hope of...

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

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...

Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original...

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 theater play by Václav Havel.

A crime comedy directed by Jirí Menzel, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.