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Criterion Channel
77
48
7.2
/2349/
72
/80/
69
/70/
3.9
/15436/
95
/10/

When the Cat Comes (1963)
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.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
43
7.5
/1202/
64
/23/
78
/16/
3.8
/1305/
94
/80/

All My Good Countrymen (1969)
The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.
poster
55
15
5.2
/350/
51
/8/
63
/3/
3.0
/336/
50
/131/

The Great Land of Small (1987)
While visiting their grandparents in the Québec countryside, two children enter a fantasy kingdom and are confronted by evil forces.
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6.4
/7/

Gladys (1999)
N/A
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7.9
/16/

Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März (1975)
A schizophrenic patient is is wasting away in a mental institution, until a young doctor encourages him to write poetry. The resulting masterpieces are however not able to stop the man from suicide.
poster
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10
/1/

Nasrin oder Die Kunst zu träumen (1972)
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7.4
/18/
20
/1/
50
/2/

Hell on Earth (2001)
From Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation comes Broken Silence, a series of five films about human courage, heroism, and triumph over intense adversities during World War II. Hell on Earth: Renowned Czech filmmaker Vojtech Jasny directed this Czech-language documentary, a look at Theresienstadt, the "model" Czech ghetto set up by the Nazis to deceive the world about how well the Jews were treated.
poster
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10
/1/

Am Strand (1982)
The film tells the fantastic story of a young man who can fly.
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4.9
/14/
10
/1/

Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen (1984)
Based on Nikolai Erdman’s banned 1928 comedy play The Suicide, a socially critical grotesque about a man tired of life
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10
/1/

Opportunity (1956)
A military film of marital infidelity in which furloughs pose danger not only to the army but also to a soldier's family.
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7.0
/9/
56
/3/

Der Leuchtturm (1972)
A psychological and existential study of a prisoner charged with guarding an isolated lighthouse. If he makes it through two years, the remainder of his sentence for manslaughter in a bar brawl will be pardoned. Nobody before managed to cope with the solitude. One day, a rat makes its way to the island. The sea and the island, the man and the rat, friendship and vendetta.
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10
/1/

Why Havel? (1991)
The first part of the block will be dedicated to the monograph Vojtěch Jasný: The Film Poet in Exile (2020) authored by the film historian Jiří Voráč. The monograph is centered on the legendary director’s life and career after his emigration to Western Europe and to the US after 1968, which have so far received little attention. In exile, Jasný established himself as a film director (he authored over thirty cinema and TV films and documentaries), stage director, photographer, and film studies lecturer. The first part will be followed by the screening of Jasný’s documentary Why Havel? co-produced by himself and Miloš Forman in Canada and Czechoslovakia in 1991. As remarkable as this reflection of the paradoxical transformation of a dissident into a president in the carnival-like atmosphere of the euphoric post-revolution period with the first question marks already appearing may be, it did not meet the expectations of the head of state.
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7.5
/41/
45
/2/

Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit (1970)
An elderly lady has a trauma and simply must celebrate Christmas every day of the year, to the dismay of her family and relatives.
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10
/1/

Z čínského zápisníku (1954)
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10
/1/

Neobyčejná léta (1952)
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poster
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10
/1/

Stará čínská opera (1954)
N/A
poster
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6.6
/30/
10
/1/

The Woman from Sarajevo (1980)
The adaptation of a lesser known novel by Nobelist Ivo Andric, which describes the life of a spinster who was overwhelmed by a single passion: avarice.
poster
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10
/1/

Lidé jednoho srdce (1953)
N/A
poster
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6.8
/8/

Impressions of Herbert Von Karajan (1978)
Reveals the life and current (1978) muses of Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan.
poster
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6.8
/22/
35
/2/
60
/4/

September Nights (1957)
The commander of the military training camp, newly promoted Major Cibulka, keeps his subordinates in line. Because of an unexpected emergency, he refuses to give leave even to the young lieutenant Zabran, whose wife is due to give birth any day. In addition, a false article appears in an army newspaper claiming that Zábrana is an example of a bad company commander. In fact, it is he who has the best leadership skills. Fearing for his wife's health, Zábrana disobeys orders and departs for Prague at night to visit his wife in the maternity ward. Cibulka decides to push the envelope even harder, and drives Zábrana, whom he has long disliked, before the prosecutor.
poster
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10
/1/

Za život radostný (1951)
N/A
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5.4
/34/
35
/2/
70
/1/

The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin (1961)
Farmers get away from their arguments by embarking on a religious pilgrimage, enjoy a picnic en route, and on their return decide to form a cooperative.
poster
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7.0
/72/
50
/3/

I Survived Certain Death (1960)
Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work in quarries, on the cruel torture of the Nazis and prison solidarity that helped him survive.
poster
37
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4.6
/131/
20
/2/
45
/4/

Return to Paradise Lost (1999)
A professor reunites with an old friend who inspires him to return to Czechoslovakia for the first time since he emigrated years ago.
poster
56
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5.9
/152/
60
/9/
49
/9/

We (1982)
In the 26th century the inhabitants of Utopia have so lost their individuality, which varies in number. They live in glass houses (this was written before the invention of television), which allows the political police, called “Keepers” can easily supervise them. They all wear the same uniform and usually turn to each other or as a ”cipher-so” or "UNIFEM" (uniform). They feed on artificial food and rest hour marching in fours in a row the anthem of the One State, pouring out of the loudspeakers. As they are allowed to put a break on the hour (known as the ”sexy time“), draw the curtains of their glass houses. At the head of the One State is one called The Benefactor, which are replaced every year the whole population, usually unanimously. The guiding principle of the State is that happiness and freedom are incompatible.
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6.0
/7/

Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn (1978)
Rückkehr (Return) consists of two short films inspired by the director's youth: "Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn" (The return of the old lord) is a nostalgic dive into the memories of an old man who entrusts his grandson with stories of his youth. "Mein seliger Onkel" (My blessed uncle) then tells the story of the boy and his adventurous uncle. Both stories take place in a picturesque small town.
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5.2
/9/

Attempted Flight (1976)
The twelve year old Ivo has been living in Vienna with his family for three years. His father and brothers work at construction sites. Their Austrian neighbors despise the Yugoslav guest workers. Because the mother has to look after the sick grandmother at home in Croatia, Ivo runs the male household in Vienna alone. Solitude and insults from the locals make the child unhappy. And so Ivo decides on a rainy winter's day to return to his home village on his own.
poster
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4.5
/47/
10
/1/
50
/2/

The Pipes (1966)
This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped to the electric chair that he realizes that this is his last live scene. The second episode has the wife of an elderly British nobleman having an affair with the young gamekeeper of their estate. Part three finds a peasant woman taking a lover when her husband goes off to fight the war.
poster
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7.3
/39/
45
/2/
65
/2/

Magnetické vlny léčí (1965)
N/A
poster
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6.6
/59/
25
/2/
100

Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher (1983)
N/A
poster
60
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6.7
/167/
57
/7/
57
/5/

The Clown (1976)
Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.
poster
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5.2
/33/
30
/2/

It’s Not Always Cloudy (1950)
A film about life in the Czech borderlands after the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans.
poster
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4.6
/27/
40
/2/
30
/1/

Everything Ends Tonight (1955)
The adventurous story of a young soldier, lance corporal Milan Pazdera, who falls in love with a beautiful young girl at a party who claims to be in the countryside on medical leave. However, it turns out that she is a dangerous spy who is trying to obtain the call lists with the help of Milan, a scribe at the military camp headquarters.
poster
?
6.6
/56/
40
/5/
67
/3/

Czech Rhapsody (1970)
Essay film from Czech director Vojtech Jasný on his home country.
poster
?
6.5
/41/
30
/2/
50
/4/

Der Kulterer (1974)
A quiet, unassuming man sentenced to a long term in a maximum-security prison uses his time to study and begins to write cryptic short stories.
poster
57
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6.9
/153/
47
/8/
60
/7/

Desire (1958)
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 impressions are observed as his newborn baby sister becomes a part of the family. In the second, a young woman falls in love for the first time one summer, and in the third, a tough, older peasant woman battles against the farming cooperatives. Finally, in the last segment, everything comes full circle as a woman who is about to become a grandmother dies while her daughter-in-law has not yet given birth.
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Die Stühle des Herrn Szmil (1979)
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Věděli si rady (1949)
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