Jaromil Jireš Movies

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...

A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s...

This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she...

Marta (Lucie Patikova) was blinded in an accident brought on by her careless and indulgent younger sister. Now in a school for the blind, Marta keeps...

Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life.

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.

The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his...

In this six-minute short, a man’s attempt to burgle a home is interrupted by a child.

In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...

In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he...

An intimate psychological film which elaborates the Faustian theme about the dispute between the body and the soul - a study on human identity. Two...

Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad...

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.