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Films from the country "tchecoslovaquie", sorted by production date
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Marketa Lazarová (1967)
, 2h42Directed by František Vláčil
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Magda Vášáryová, Josef Kemr, Vladimír Menšík, Ivan Palúch, Petr Kostka, Zdeněk Štěpánek
Two brothers, Mikoláš and one-armed Adam, along with a small group of men, ambushing a wagon and men traveling on a country road in the middle of winter. The attackers massacre most of the travelers, one escapes, Mikoláš chases and captures one and his men capture another. The man who escaped, a Saxon aristocrat, turns out to be the new Bishop of Hennau and a close ally of the local king. The two captives are the Bishop's son and his assistant. When Mikoláš returns to the site of the ambush, he finds a group of scavengers, led by Lazar, a neighbor of Mikoláš's, stripping the dead. Mikoláš' first impulse is to kill Lazar, but spares him after Lazar prays to Christ to forgive Mikoláš. Mikoláš returns to his village where his father, Kozlík, is the clan patriarch. Kozlík becomes furious at Mikoláš for allowing a man to escape, for bringing home two captives and for allowing Lazar to live. When Mikoláš explains that he took the captives for ransom, his father asks him if he intends to travel to Saxony to claim the ransom or if Mikoláš intends to invite the Saxons to bring their army to their small clan village.
Kinoautomat (1967)
, 1h3Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Comedy
Actors Libuše Švormová, Věra Tichánková, Václav Lohniský, Jiří Schmitzer
M. Novak, héros du film, rentre chez lui avec un bouquet de fleurs : c'est l'anniversaire de son épouse qui doit arriver d'un instant à l'autre. Mais il sonne par erreur à l'appartement voisin.
Hotel for Strangers (1967)
, 1h40Directed by Antonín Máša
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Petr Čepek, Táňa Fischerová, Evald Schorm, Jiří Pleskot, Jiřina Jirásková, Jiří Kodet
Au début du XX siècle, un jeune poète, Petr Hudec, prend une chambre dans un hôtel mystérieux de style Art nouveau, l'Hôtel Svět, et est retrouvé assassiné. Son journal intime permet de remonter le cours des événements et d'arriver à Veronika, une jeune fille avec laquelle Hudec avait rendez-vous. Pendant l'investigation, des clients bizarres arpentent les couloirs et occupent les chambres de l'hôtel.
The Firemen's Ball (1967)
, 1h11Directed by Miloš Forman
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about the labor movement, Disaster films
The volunteer fire department in a small Czechoslovak town decides to organize a ball in a townhall with raffle and a beauty pageant. The firefighters also plan to present a small ceremonial fire axe as the birthday gift to their retired chairman who has cancer (although they believe he may not know of it).
Pearls of the Deep (1966)
, 1h45Directed by Věra Chytilová, Jiří Menzel, Evald Schorm, Jaromil Jireš, Jan Němec
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Comedy
Actors Jiří Menzel
Ce film est composé de cinq courts métrages réalisés chacun par un réalisateur différent, Self-service Univers (Automat Svet) de Věra Chytilová, Romance (Romance) de Jaromil Jireš, La mort de M. Baltazar (Smrt pana Baltazara) de Jiří Menzel, Les Imposteurs (Podvodníci) de Jan Němec et La Maison de joie (Dum radosti) d'Evald Schorm.
Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)
, 1h20Directed by Václav Vorlíček
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Jiří Sovák, Dana Medřická, Olga Schoberová, Karel Effa, Otto Šimánek, Čestmír Řanda
L’ingénieur Jindřich Beránek travaille au sein de la société Elektrojeřáby alors que sa femme Růžena, autoritaire et énergique, voire tyrannique, travaille dans un institut de recherche. La professeure Beránková invente ainsi un procédé qui supprime les rêves désagréables. Elle reproduit l’expérience avec une vache au cours d’une conférence, qui voit disparaitre un taon du rêve de la vache (les rêves étant retransmis… sur un écran de télévision). Mais le taon réapparait alors dans la salle, et échappe à l’attention des protagonistes. Jindřich Beránek trouve quant à lui une série de bandes dessinées, où la ravissante héroïne Jessie échappe à ses poursuivants en utilisant des gants anti-gravité. L’idée lui vient alors de mettre au point un procédé identique.
, 1h11Directed by Jan Němec
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Evald Schorm
Un petit groupe d'amis bourgeois est en sortie d'une journée à la campagne, sortie qui comprend un pique-nique. Alors qu'ils se promènent après le pique-nique, ils rencontrent un groupe d'hommes à l'air officieux qui les réquisitionnent dans une petite clairière. Bien qu'il n'y ait pas de menace directe et que les pique-niqueurs n'aient pas peur, ils ressentent néanmoins le besoin de faire ce que les hommes disent.
Intimate Lighting (1966)
, 1h13Directed by Ivan Passer
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
It follows the adventures of a professional symphony musician, Peter, who comes to a small town to see a friend he has missed, Bambas. He is a teacher and performer at funerals. The two meet again and get involved in some comic exploits, including a possible symphony concert.
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
, 1h32Directed by Jiří Menzel
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films
Actors Václav Neckář, Vlastimil Brodský, Josef Somr, Jiří Menzel, Jiří Kodet, Josef Abrhám
The young Miloš Hrma, who speaks with misplaced pride of his family of misfits and malingerers, is engaged as a newly trained station guard in a small railway station during the Second World War and the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. He admires himself in his new uniform, and looks forward, like his prematurely-retired railwayman father, to avoiding real work. The sometimes pompous stationmaster is an enthusiastic pigeon-breeder with a kind wife, but is envious of the train dispatcher Hubička's success with women. Miloš holds an as-yet platonic love for the pretty young conductor Máša. The experienced Hubička presses for details of their relationship and realizes that Miloš is still a virgin.
Loves of a Blonde (1965)
, 1h24Directed by Miloš Forman, Ivan Passer
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Vladimír Menšík, Vladimír Pucholt
Andula is a working-class young woman living in a fading Czech factory town, where, due to an oversight in central state planning, women outnumber men 16-1. The film opens with an intimate scene between Andula and her fellow shoe-factory-worker friend as they lie in bed in their dormitory discussing the ring given to Andula by her boyfriend Tonda and gossiping about her mildly flirtatious encounter with a forest ranger, which is shown in flashback.
The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965)
, 1h40Directed by Zbyněk Brynych
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Olga Schoberová, Olga Scheinpflugová, Jiří Vršťala, Iva Janžurová, Jiří Pleskot, Čestmír Řanda
Set in Prague during the Nazi occupation, the film follows Dr. Braun, a Jewish doctor forbidden to practice medicine who instead works for Nazi officials cataloging confiscated Jewish property. All Braun wants to do is survive, but his pragmatic mentality is challenged when an injured resistance fighter stumbles into his apartment building. A quest for morphine leads Dr. Braun through his tortured city, where fear eats away at the social structure.
Courage for Every Day (1965)
, 1h25Directed by Evald Schorm
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama
Actors Jana Brejchová, Jiřina Jirásková, Josef Abrhám, Vlastimil Brodský, Olga Scheinpflugová, Jiří Menzel
The Shop on Main Street (1965)
, 2h5Directed by Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Ida Kamińska, František Zvarík, Juraj Herz, Ivan Palúch
During World War II, a mild-mannered Slovak carpenter Anton "Tóno" Brtko (Jozef Kroner) is offered the chance to take over the sewing notions store of an old, near-deaf Jewish woman Rozália Lautmannová (Ida Kamińska) as a part of the enactment of an Aryanization regulation in the town. As Tóno attempts to explain to Mrs. Lautmannová, who is oblivious of the world outside and generally confused, that he has come to be her supervisor and owner of the store, Imrich Kuchár (Martin Hollý, Sr.), a Slovak opponent of Aryanization, steps in and reveals to Brtko that the business itself is less than profitable, as Lautmannová herself relies on donations. The Jewish community then offers the amiable Brtko a weekly payment if he does not give up the store, which would otherwise be given to a new, possibly ruthless Aryanizer. Tóno accepts and lets Mrs. Lautmannová believe he is her nephew who has come to help in the store. Their relationship grows, until the authorities round up the town's entire Jewish population for transport, and Tóno finds himself conflicted as to whether he should turn in the senile Mrs. Lautmannová, or hide her. When the woman finally becomes aware of the "pogrom" all around her, she panics, and in attempting to silence her, Tóno accidentally kills her. The realization devastates him, and he hangs himself.
Lemonade Joe (1964)
, 1h38Directed by Oldřich Lipský
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Western
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Miloš Kopecký, Karel Fiala, Olga Schoberová, Josef Hlinomaz, Karel Effa, Juraj Herz
In the frontier town of Stetson City, Arizona, in 1885, business is booming at the Trigger Whisky Saloon. Tornado Lou, the local chanteuse, regales the saloon-goers with a sultry ballad ("Když v báru housne dým"), while the saloon owner Doug Badman tries in vain to woo her. Two evangelists, Ezra Goodman and his daughter Winnifred, enter the bar attempting to drum up interest in their temperance movement, but the saloon's hard-drinking cowboys scorn them. Into the fracas steps a stranger: Lemonade Joe, a lone cowboy singing the praises of Kolaloka, a non-alcoholic soft drink (in Czech, limonàda, hence the name). His superior gunfighting skill quickly convinces the saloon-goers of the benefits of teetotalism. Before long, Joe and the Goodmans have joined forces, Joe has begun courting Winnifred, and all the cowboys in Stetson City have transferred their loyalty to the cathedral-like God Bless Kolaloka Saloon ("Arizóna, to je pravých mužů zóna").
Diamonds of the Night (1964)
, 1h3Directed by Jan Němec
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Historical
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Vladimír Pucholt
Diamonds of the Night begins with two young men fleeing from a train taking them to a concentration camp. The film employs little dialog and the boys escape through rugged and unfamiliar terrain is interpolated with dreams, memories, hallucinations, fantasies, and flashbacks. They encounter a woman on a farm and one boy struggles with thoughts of murder and rape before silently taking a loaf of bread from the woman's kitchen and leaving. Eventually, the boys are caught by members of a local shooting party. The men prepare to execute the boys, but simply laugh as they walk away instead of executing them. The ending is ambiguous: The men either actually spared the boys, or they could be walking into the afterlife.