Jiří Menzel Movies

A musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and physics teacher employing innovative teaching...

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...

On a sunny afternoon an old man speaks to a laundress about his love for Provence, then a black flag is unfurled outside the town monument: news has...

When he returns to Prague from a stint in the Army, Lada does not seem to fit in anywhere, and he cannot get the hang of the system of deliberately...

Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different for the mother of eighteen-year-old Frantisek,...

A film impression about Bohumil Hrabal - an encounter with the man and his literary work. The film was shot in places well known and close to the...

Ivan, in his early forties, returns, after many years of absence to his native town - a typical Middle - European small town in Northern of Croatia....

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...

A young man living in a strictly run boarding house secretly brings a girl of loose morals into his room at night, who is nevertheless well-groomed...

Balog Mihály, the Gypsy man from Szabolcs works in Budapest. That is where he is notified that his young wife died. Again he behaves...

An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric...

The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.

The main character of the story which takes place in the twenties in Budapest is the poet Dr. Rácz György, who returns after ten years of...

The general practitioner Balla and his wife abandoning her higher education begin their common life in the small mountain village in the hope of...

A crime comedy directed by Jirí Menzel, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.