Jiří Blažek Movies

A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three...

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.

A family purchases a home robot designed to look like a grandmum. Their neighbours immediately buy a more expensivve model as the two families always...

A tribe of survivors take possession of a large but rundown building, killing all who put up resistance - but they don't know that the building is...

In a South Bohemian village in the middle of silver ponds and dark forests lives Jindřich (Radek Valenta), who one day goes out into the world...

A sad story about love between Czech boy and German girl during 1944.

The honest and a bit naive director of a variety agency, Jožin Petránek, sits on the qualification committee that judges entertainers and...

The juxtaposition of animals locked in cages in a zoo and people shackled by the confinement of the city has not lost its impact to this day. The...

Building themes, however modified, permeated the nationalised cinema throughout its existence. This time, director Július Matula has focused...

Although the title would suggest it, this film has nothing to do with fairy tales at all: it takes place in the North Moravian border region just...

Viktor Průcha, a successful small-town architect, lives well but knows his comfort rests on compromises. When an elderly man—whose...

A striking generational tragicomedy, A Hoof Here, a Hoof There is a caustic group portrait of pals who enjoy a tipple, all kinds of hi-jinks and...

František Cepl is a young man from a simple family. He graduated from a real school and was going to study technology. When the occupation...

Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables...

Different animals play with a marble in this whimsical story from Hermína Týrlová, ‘the mother of Czech animation’

Engineer Pavel Hnyk is successful at work, but not very happy in his private life. He is approaching his fiftieth birthday and he can't shake the...

A Czech psychological film about the school of life, its sorrows and beauties. The main character is a young aspiring nurse Marie Sahulová,...

People can be addicted to things, like high-calorie food. But the struggle against overweight and overeating is often futile, so the unfortunates...

Approaches to important life values can vary: while the top athlete who has made it in cycling tries to monetise his talent, his brother cannot...