All My Good Countrymen
The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.
When the Cat Comes
While old Oliva tells a group of children about his life as a sailor and how he met Diana and her cat with sunglasses, a strange circus arrives in town.
Desire
A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the first skit, a young child’s…
Larks on a String
Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect “bourgeois elements”, a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for…
Closely Watched Trains
In a small town still occupied by the Germans as World War II’s tide is turning toward the Allies, apprentice train-watcher Milos is oblivious to the war. Instead, he is…
Cars Without a Home
Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček turn their attention to the problem of Czechoslovakia’s unloved cars in this whimsical documentary short.
Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with…