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Films from the country "tchecoslovaquie", sorted by production date
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Food (1992)
, 17minutesDirected by Jan Švankmajer
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Comedy, Animation
Actors Jan Kraus
Le film se divise en trois épisodes de durées équivalentes. Ils sont précédés de très courts plans sur divers repas accompagnés d'un fond sonore propre à une cuisine (chocs d'assiettes et de couverts, conversations) puis d'un panneau indiquant le repas à venir. Les différents repas pourraient symboliser différentes classes sociales : la classe ouvrière au petit-déjeuner, la classe moyenne au déjeuner, les élites au dîner.
The Elementary School (1991)
, 1h40Directed by Jan Svěrák
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Jan Tříska, Zdeněk Svěrák, Libuše Šafránková, Rudolf Hrušínský, Eva Holubová, Petr Čepek
The film is set shortly after the World War II (1945 and 1946) in one of the suburbs of Prague (it was shot in Michle). The main character Eda Souček (Václav Jakoubek) attends a boys' elementary school where he belongs to a class with a complete lack of discipline. After their teacher Maxová (Daniela Kolářová) goes insane during one of her classes, the schoolmaster (Rudolf Hrušínský) has to implement special measures. He employs a new male teacher Igor Hnízdo (Jan Tříska), who is said to be a great war hero. Authoritative Hnízdo immediately introduces corporal punishment which, as he explains, is not normally allowed but the school has received an exception from the Ministry of Education as a result of their dreadful behaviour. Despite his strict methods, the boys soon become charmed by the man. They love his battlefront stories and the fact that he is always armed and wears a uniform. Eda sees him as the very opposite of his own father (Zdeněk Svěrák) whom he considers to be too cowardly. Hnízdo makes the same positive impression on all people he meets (including Eda's mother portrayed by Libuše Šafránková). Nevertheless, his persona is also surrounded by many controversies. For example his war heroism is disputed as he is unable to provide any accurate information about his military service. There is even an unconfirmed rumour that Hnízdo was only guarding goats during the war. But the boys from his class ignore all negative comments and even fight those who are spreading the rumours. Hnízdo's reputation suffers after he is accused of having a sexual relationship with local twins who attend a girls' school in the same area. He is forced to leave because this is not the first time he has been involved in a similar affair. The formerly unmanageable boys begin to defend Hnízdo and call for his return. The accusation is finally withdrawn and Hnízdo comes back to the class. He states that the way they were dealing with the accusation is a proof that the physical punishments are no longer necessary.
Stalingrad (1990)
, 3h16Directed by Youri Ozerov
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Powers Boothe, Fernando Allende, Mikhaïl Oulianov, Bruno Freindlich, Sergueï Garmach, Nikolai Kryuchkov
In January 1942, Adolf Hitler appoints Fedor von Bock to command Army Group South and supervise Operation Blau. The German forces advance in the south of Russia, scattering the Soviets and approaching Stalingrad, that seems on the verge of falling to the enemy's hands. The movie ends with Vasily Chuikov assuming command of the 62nd Army at September.
The Ear (1990)
, 1h34Directed by Karel Kachyňa
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Jiřina Bohdalová, Miloslav Holub, Bronislav Poloczek, Ivan Palúch
The film is about a bitter married couple that consists of Ludvik, a senior official of Prague's ruling Communist regime, and his alcoholic wife Anna. They return home after attending a political party dinner and notice their home has been broken into. Several strange occurrences, including the disappearance of their spare house keys and dead phone lines, lead them to believe that they are under surveillance by their own government. As the night progresses, the flaws of their marriage and of each other are exposed.
The End of Old Times (1989)
, 1h37Directed by Jiří Menzel, Vladislav Vančura
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Comedy
Actors Josef Abrhám, Marián Labuda, Jan Hartl, Rudolf Hrušínský, Stella Zázvorková
Tchéquie, 1918. La nouvelle Assemblée nationale a nommé Stoklasa administrateur du château de Kratochvile. Bien que sans racines aristocratiques, il a de l'argent et tente d'acheter le château. Pour impressionner ses voisins et les élus locaux, il les invite à une grande partie de chasse. Sans y être invité, arrive un homme qui prétend être le duc Alexej.
A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989)
, 2h9Directed by Věra Chytilová
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Tomáš Hanák, Milan Šteindler, Jiří Bartoška
Deux amis font le test de dépistage du SIDA, et apprennent que l'un d'entre eux est séropositif.
Alice (1988)
, 1h24Directed by Jan Švankmajer
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Horror, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Inspiré de l'univers des contes et légendes, Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Films based on Alice in Wonderland, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Anne Consigny, Camilla Power, Martin Provost
Alice appears to be in her own bedroom, when a taxidermically stuffed rabbit comes to life and breaks out of its glass case. Alice follows the rabbit through the drawer of a desk into a cavern. She subsequently falls through a bucket and seemingly down an elevator shaft. Wonderland itself is a mix of drab household-like areas with incongruous relationships of space and size. The Queen's execution sentences are carried out by the White Rabbit with a pair of scissors. At the film's end, Alice wakes in her room, discovers that the rabbit is still missing from his glass case, and finds a secret compartment where he keeps scissors. She ponders whether or not she will cut his head off. The film is ambiguous about whether this room is Alice's real world or "Wonderland".
The Jester and the Queen (1988)
, 1h51Directed by Věra Chytilová
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Bolek Polívka, Jiří Kodet, Vlastimil Brodský
Wolf's Hole (1987)
, 1h32Directed by Věra Chytilová
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure, Horror
A group of teenagers are invited to a skiing workshop in the mountains, without being told how or why they were picked as participants. There are eleven of them, but the camp supervisors insist that there should be only ten, and that one of them is an intruder. As the group find themselves cut off from the outside world, strange things begin to happen; the supervisors seem intent to create an atmosphere of hostility, turning the participants against each other, even urging them to kill each other. The supervisors eventually reveal themselves as extraterrestrials who demand that the group pick one among them to be sacrificed. They refuse, however, and in a panic set the cottage on fire and make a narrow escape on a lift used for timber transport, leaving no man behind.
The Pied Piper (1986)
, 53minutesDirected by Jiří Barta
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Fantasy, Horror, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Jiří Lábus
The film starts with the image of a mechanism beginning to work - as the gears move (behind the scenes), the sun slowly rises up over a town and a new day begins. The town, Hamelin, is shown to be one which is full of corrupted, petty people, where everything is wasted and money and social rank are the first priority. The waste leads to a gigantic rat infestation at night. As the town leaders meet to decide on the best course of action, a stranger appears in the doorway - a hooded piper who with the sound of his playing can entice rats to run over a cliff to their deaths. The town leaders are very happy and offer him 1000 gold coins as payment if he would get rid of all of the town's rats. The piper accepts, and begins walking through the city, leading all of the rats behind him. At the same time, a jewellery seller who was among the elite group of leaders walks into a woman's home and asks her to marry him. The woman (who is so far the only character who doesn't look grotesque, implying innocence) refuses. The jeweller persists, but before he can do anything the piper passes by her house and the jewellery seller is forced to jump out of the window at the sound of the music. After all of the rats jump into a lake, the piper comes back into town, on the way once again stopping the jeweller's advances on the woman. The piper and the woman sit on the bench together as he plays a beautiful melody that is accompanied by paint-on-wood animation (a complete change of style from the rest of the film).
Forget Mozart (1985)
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Ladislav Chudík, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Wolfgang Preiss, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Winfried Glatzeder, Katja Flint
Après la mort de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, plusieurs personnes qui l'ont connu se réunissent afin d'établir la cause de sa mort.
My Sweet Little Village (1985)
, 1h38Directed by Jiří Menzel
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Comedy
Actors Rudolf Hrušínský, Marián Labuda, Libuše Šafránková, Petr Čepek, Jan Hartl, Milena Dvorská
The film's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a mentally retarded young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded neighbor. Pávek's family takes care of Otík, whose parents are dead. However, the two coworkers become at odds over Otík's inability to perform even the simplest tasks. Pávek demands that Otík be transferred to assist another driver, who happens to be a choleric and suspicious man named Turek (Turk in Czech). Rather than work with Turek, Otík decides to accept an offer of employment in Prague, but finds he does not fit into the city life. After discovering that the transfer of Otík to Prague was a trick by a crooked politician to get a deal on Otík's large inherited house, Pávek agrees to give Otík a second chance and retrieves him from the city to resume their work together.
The Snowdrop Festival (1984)
, 1h23Directed by Jiří Menzel
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Actors Rudolf Hrušínský, Libuše Šafránková, Petr Čepek, Jiří Schmitzer, Zdeněk Svěrák, Jiří Krejčík
Ce film est basé sur des textes de Bohumil Hrabal, prosateur tchèque mondialement connu. C'est une histoire (sous la forme d'une mosaïque de courts épisodes et d'images) sur la tristesse et le bonheur des habitants de Kersko.
, 1h39Directed by Věra Chytilová
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Comedy
Actors Ivana Chýlková, Jiřina Steimarová, Věra Chytilová
Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)
, 12minutesDirected by Jan Švankmajer
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
The animation is divided into three sections. "Eternal conversation" (Dialog věcný) shows Arcimboldo-like heads gradually reducing each other to bland copies; "Passionate discourse" (Dialog vášnivý) shows a clay man and woman who dissolve into one another sexually, then quarrel and reduce themselves to a frenzied, boiling pulp; and "Exhaustive discussion" (Dialogu vyčerpávajícím) consists of two elderly clay heads who extrude various objects on their tongues (toothbrush and toothpaste; shoe and shoelaces, etc.) and intertwine them in various combinations.