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- DirectorDusan KleinStarsJosef AbrhámViktor PreissPavel ZednícekThis comedy is based on stories by the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. It takes place in summer of 1947. Charming, witty and smart men represent a fictitious insurance company. The insurance policies, however, disappear in the pockets of the Prague playboys who use the money for very pleasant purposes, but eventually they are cheated by the "Angelic Eyes" of someone still smarter.
- DirectorJirí VercákStarsOldrich VíznerOndrej HavelkaLucie ZedníckováA gentleman Jirí Oulický hires a servant Saturnin and from that day he goes through many unusual situations.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsRadek HolubAlena MihulováValérie ZawadskáAdam is a young farmer. As a child, fleeing the bleak reality of his mother's life as a prostitute, he tumbled from a mountain and was mentally injured. Years later, his mother is dying, so Adam sells their only cow to pay for medicine. Rosa, a beautiful young maid, fleeing the sexual exploitation of a wealthy butcher, climbs up to join them on their remote farm and dares to become part of Adam's world. A cycle of life begins again, in a remote turn-of-the-century village tied to the land and its animals.
- DirectorJan ProkopStarsMartin ZounarLucie BenesováMarián LabudaSet in the eighties, the film tells of a young man who gets mixed up with black market moneychangers.
- DirectorMilan RuzickaStarsMiroslav DonutilVeronika ZilkováJosef KarlíkMilan Ruzicka uses uncompromising humor and simplified caricatures to develop a tale common in the Czech Republic in the beginning of nineties. A Czech-American (Miroslav Donutil) returns to the country of his birth after November 1989 to see to the restitution of family property. He runs into freeloaders, con artists, and other similar elements.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsPetr CepekJan KrausVladimír KudlaAn ordinary man is lured into a strange puppet theatre by a map and finds himself embroiled in a production of the Faustian legend.
- DirectorZdenek TroskaStarsRadek ValentaAndrea CernáYvetta BlanarovicováA young man Jindrich goes looking for a princess only to find a girl in the country mill.
- DirectorVít OlmerStarsLudek SobotaSimona ChytrováRoman SkameneVít (Ludek Sobota) is a simpleton who inherits a grand spa hotel. Soon he is faced with a plethora of con artists and speculators who pop up out of nowhere.
- DirectorArtemio BenkiMikael DovlatyanMira ErdevickiStarsMilos CervenkaIvo GubelBohuslav LicmanFive short films, documentaries and fiction: Prologue; Round ruins; the Last Christmas of my house; A special occasion; the castle; Romance of the man without boss.
- DirectorVladimír MichálekStarsOlga CharvatovaMartin DejdarRadim Hladík Sr.Vladimír Michálek chose an unconventional adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel for his feature debut. Artistically reminiscent of the classic films of Karel Zeman, the director reinterpreted this dark story of a man vainly seeking a place in a rigidly ordered society by changing the desperate conclusion into a happy end. The film provided Czech comedian Jirí Lábus with a new kind of role: that of the despotic uncle of a main hero Karel Rossman (Martin Dejdar).
- DirectorJan SverákStarsAnna GeislerováRadek PastrnákFilip RencTwo guys bought a car and travelled through the country until they met a lonely girl on the road. So they begin to travel together having so much fun. And there is another guy who has a better car and who is looking for the girl because he is her lover, he is her first one. What is going on inside of this girl? Nobody knows, until the end.
- DirectorZuzana ZemanováStarsKarel RodenJana BrejchováChantal PoullainA mother and her daughter live alone far from human habitation. They are happy. Their harmonious relationship is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a foreigner with his interpreter. In spite of the lack of verbal communication, the mother and the stranger fall in love, the daughter accepts him as well. The budding relationship is disturbed by the interpreter who realizes her power.
- DirectorMilan SteindlerStarsIvana ChýlkováFranciszek PieczkaAlena VránováThis film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of the family comes from Ukraine and so every year someone from Ukraine to visit this family and to buy something more better than is in Ukraine. As the times go by, the friens of family live in Austria. And now for change the family visit "a better life" in west Europe and they found out how it is to be something second-rate.
- DirectorDrahomíra VihanováStarsAntonín BrtounGyörgy CserhalmiMiroslav DonutilThe story takes place in the second half of the eighties. The regime of power is tired, but any changes are out of sight. Some people are trying to find their asylum in their privacy, some defect. Who is not willing to get adapted, lives at the outskirts of the society. So, for example, the forty-year old intellectual Ewald (György Cserhalmi)can not perform his profession, as he could not comply with requirements of the political regime. He earns his living just to sustain, and at the moment he is assigned to measure the capacity of water bore in the vicinity of the fortress. He lives in a caravan-trailer, measures the yield of the water source, and makes friends with the head officer of the fortress (Miroslav Donutil). Their friendship is a strange, unusual relation of two men of different characters, linked by a feeling of loneliness, need of sincerity and even a mutual respect, which stems from understanding each other.
- DirectorPetr HvizdStarsMarek VasutJana AltmanováAndrea CernáSet in 1776, this film concerns an army deserter who takes refuge within the walls of the Convent of St. Claire. The investigation to find him soon becomes a question of morality concerning the value of human life in the context of the diversity and hierarchy of social laws.
- DirectorLudvík RázaStarsMilena SteinmasslováBoris RösnerDaniela KolárováOne of the few historical films to come out of the Czech film industry in the nineties. It describes the last seven years in the life of Zdislava of Lemberk (Milena Steinmasslová), an early 13th century saint who sacrificed her life caring for the sick and implementing progressive methods of treatment.
- DirectorDrahomíra KrálováStarsPetr FrancLukás JanotaLucie Cechová
- DirectorZdenek TycStarsFilip TopolMarkéta HrubesováIva JanzurováA Czech-French existential tragicomedy. Its (anti)hero is a young man named Andrej (played by Filip Topol, leader of the Czech underground band Psí vojáci). The story turns on his fateful love for the powerfully attractive though superficial Kristyna (Markéta Hrubesová).
- DirectorPavel BartaStarsOtomar DvorákGabriela FilippiMilan Pekný
- DirectorHelena Trestíková
- DirectorPavel MarekStarsLukás HlavicaLenka VlasákováJan Kacer
- DirectorClaude BoissolStarsMarie-France PisierAndrzej SewerynJirí HolýThe story of a seriously ill 25-year-old man, in need of a kidney transplant, and his mother, whose fate is also influenced by the explosion of revolutionary events of 1968 in Czechoslovakia, restrained by the Russian invasion of Prague.
- DirectorMiro SindelkaStarsIvana ChýlkováJirí BartoskaJozef KronerThirty-year-old Hana (Ivana Chylková) enters a life crisis. She discovers her husband Igor's (Jiri Bartoska) infidelity and her life, subordinated to her husband, is suddenly questioned.
- DirectorJaromil JiresStarsMartin DejdarJana HlavácováMilos KopeckýA story about love, dancing and survival, set in the late 40s. Jan Mayer, a young dance-master, arrives in a sanatorium for lung diseases with a serious diagnosis - tuberculosis. But he does not give in to his illness and starts fighting it actively with his optimism and his dancing. Gradually he wins over other patients, who had been accepting their fate passively under strict institutional discipline. But his sickness soon breaks out in full its force.