Jan Klusák Movies

A short documentary about the work of railwaymen and life on the railway.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dana Medřická

While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eva Límanová

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaromír Hanzlík

A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and death, set amidst complex hospital apparatus and the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jan Kačer

Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Kačer

A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pavla Maršálková

In a rare instance of literary adaptation, Chytilová was inspired by Franz Kafka’s writings. Mr. K stashes stolen jewelry away at home...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Miloš Kopecký

A troupe of young women on post-apocalyptic earth are lead around by a mistress born before the war, eventually stumbling into the company of a...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ondrej Jariabek

Three loosely-connected tales that represent different aspects of love: temptation, dreams, and adventure.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Petr Kopřiva

It is the depths of winter and in the middle of a desolate landscape on a snowy slope stands a log cabin, inhabited by an old man. The man puts his...

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Cast: Joža Mrázek Hořický

The original score was in a sorry state: the notes were carelessly marked, the lines were broken, and the paper was covered in smudges. I took the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zdeněk Svěrák

Pacific Island - 1945. Five American soldiers were sent to reconnoiter the Japanese rear. Surrounded by unpredictable jungle and terrible heat, they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiří Hálek

An elderly couple is planning a big family gathering. The husband is thinking about what he can do to make his wife happy. While walking around town,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jan Pivec

A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vlastimil Brodský

A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Juraj Herz

A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Milena Dvorská

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Kačer

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Cast: Miloslav Holub

Genre: History

Cast: Zora Rozsypalová

A string quartet of students is about to rehearse a new piece when everything is drowned out by the repeated loud call for a general mobilisation...

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Cast: Gerard Samaan

The story of four men who were arrested in a random raid on a small-town hotel during the Nazi occupation and taken to a school classroom. They don't...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vlastimil Brodský

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stanislav Grof

Genre: Animation

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The first short story "Naked in the Thorns" tells the story of a man whose clothes were taken away by a dog during his bath in the river. In the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Václav Babka

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jana Preissová

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jean Angelo

The television production captures the last decade of the life of the now world-renowned painter Karel Purkyně (1834 - 1868) and his struggle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luděk Munzar

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miloš Nedbal

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomáš Töpfer

A tragedy of great and bloody conflicts, turbulent emotions and clashes, centred on a couple torn by passion – Macbeth and his wife, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dušan Jamrich

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marta Kaňovská

In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Petr Čepek

A meeting between the famous post-war safecracker Arnošt Šimerda and "his" inspector František Nový, who put him behind...

Genre: Documentary

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Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

Genre: Animation

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In creating the film, Evald Schorm and Jan Špáta took full advantage of the possibilities offered by the Cinemascope format and created...

Genre: Documentary

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In modern hospitals are carried out intensive cardiac surgery. Daily operations individually comments attendant Cajthaml ... Stylized ,, dream "scene...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vlastimil Brodský

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jana Brejchová

Jan Kačer became known primarily as an actor, but he also took up film directing several times - not very successfully. Based on someone else's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Drahomír Ožana

Bláža is a bland-looking student who is eager for her first love experience. Even though experienced men are interested in her, she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jaromíra Mílová

Amadeus Macků, the village postman, is an incorrigible dreamer obsessed with the desire to fly. He invents and builds his own hovercrafts,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Josef Žluťák Hrubý

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Josef Abrhám

Film based on the story by the French writer Gérard de Nerval. A terrifying story that takes us to Paris in the time of the Three Musketeers....

Genre: Animation

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This original adaptation of Oscar Wilde's sad, socially conscious fairy tale, The Happy Prince, hinges on the conflict between fact and dream,...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Eduard Cupák

A meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Miroslav Horníček

Matěj Hůrka, a teenage bricklayer's apprentice, a young man who is delicate in matters of love, lives with his grandmother in a country...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ivan Wiesner

Genre: Crime

Cast: Vladimír Kratina

The original score was in a sorry state: the notes were carelessly marked, the lines were broken, and the paper was covered in smudges. I took the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zdeněk Svěrák

An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughter's cheek.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jana Brejchová

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ilona Svobodová

In 1976, the Czech New Wave philosopher and director Evald Schorm came to the Na zábradlí Theatre. He stayed there for twelve years,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vlastimil Bedrna

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jan Klusák

Reflecting on the memory and legacy of the Second World War.

Genre: Documentary

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A synagogue service in Bohemia, where the Torah scrolls are ceremoniously taken out and read, intercut with images of a Jewish cemetery.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jan Kačer