Jan Klusák Movies

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the...

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...

An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughter's cheek.

A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and death, set amidst complex hospital apparatus and the...

A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded...

In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a...

An elderly couple is planning a big family gathering. The husband is thinking about what he can do to make his wife happy. While walking around town,...

The first short story "Naked in the Thorns" tells the story of a man whose clothes were taken away by a dog during his bath in the river. In the...

Documentary about the making of Vera Chytilová's film DAISIES

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

In this film Jaroslav Boček adapted his own story. Its excellent animation plays a significant role in all three comical performances of variety...

In creating the film, Evald Schorm and Jan Špáta took full advantage of the possibilities offered by the Cinemascope format and created...

Amadeus Macků, the village postman, is an incorrigible dreamer obsessed with the desire to fly. He invents and builds his own hovercrafts,...

A meeting between the famous post-war safecracker Arnošt Šimerda and "his" inspector František Nový, who put him behind...

In 1976, the Czech New Wave philosopher and director Evald Schorm came to the Na zábradlí Theatre. He stayed there for twelve years,...

A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic...

Documentary short about the title composer, born in what was called "Czechoslovakia" when the film was made.