Ivo Špalj Movies

This combined film (black and white drawings of human hands and objects) is a parable on power and the motives affecting modern society.

When the village school master discovers the body of a mean-spirited, miserly old woman, with whom he has had a disagreement, he decides to dispose...

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies...

Jan Nemec, a leading filmmaker of the Czech New Wave, creates an original portrait of one of the most provocative artists of the 20th century: Toyen...

A group of teenagers are trying to solve a mystery of a puzzle created and left to them by the dead boy.

A man watches a cartoon of a cat and mouse, and cheers as the mouse scores a victory over the cat.

Pieces of wood are captured by a crow and dance in celebration of spring in this animated short film.

A cruel picture of the ways in which human beings acquire power and then cling to it. The story of Father Ubu, an idiot who climbs over the bodies of...

A film story based on the old Prague legends. It tells about a poor student lured by wealth, which he prefers to knowledge. In the end, he sells his...

The picture, unlike the other film adaptations of the story, focuses much more on Crusoe’s life before and after his stay on the island....

While the humans are away, the shoes in a cobbler's workshop engage in a number of activities, including flirting, kidnapping and a gunfight.

An adaptation of the 1764 work of the same name, the first Gothic novel. In this mockumentary, the amateur archaeologist Dr. Vozáb has set to...

A poetic, but chilling story of seven puppets in train car prior to its journey to a concentration camp.

Humorous as well as educational stories about magical and everyday problems, about devils, miracles, ordinary human vices and wisdom. The graphic...

An artistic animated short showing the life in secondary school.

A king and his three daughters must contend with the hairy wiles of the "ugly bastard" known as Omnifurous.

A satiric film travesty of Shakespeare's dramas set in the year 2000. The protagonists are to convince the audience that human passions such as love,...

A modern version of a classical fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a veteran who got rich thanks to a magic flint and thus he could marry a...

On a lonely island, where Odysseus has to serve the nymph Calypso, he remembers his great adventures: the glorious victory over Troy; the curse of...