Jiří Menzel

Jiří Menzel

Jiří Menzel (Czech: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈmɛntsl̩] was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura. Menzel, a member of the Czech New Wave, became internationally famous in 1967, when his first feature film, Closely Watched Trains, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His controversial film Larks on a String was filmed in 1969, but was initially banned by the Czechoslovakian government. It was finally released in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime. The film won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. Menzel was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film again in 1986 with his dark comedy My Sweet Little Village. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989 he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1995 he was a member of the jury at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. He would be conferred with IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2013.

  • Title: Jiří Menzel
  • Popularity: 2.211
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1938-02-23
  • Place of Birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
  • Homepage: http://www.jirimenzel.cz/
  • Also Known As: Jirí Menzel, Jiri Menzel, 이리 멘젤, 이리 멘첼
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Jiří Menzel Movies

  • 1966
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    Closely Watched Trains

    Closely Watched Trains

    7.3 1966 HD

    At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity....

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  • 1990
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    Larks on a String

    Larks on a String

    7 1990 HD

    In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is...

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  • 2009
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    Operation Dunaj

    Operation Dunaj

    5 2009 HD

    Operation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968. The fleet of Polish tanks which arrive...

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  • 1972
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    Sechse kommen durch die Welt

    Sechse kommen durch die Welt

    5 1972 HD

    The King of Malabunt has won another war, after decorating himself and his three wooden marshals, he dismisses his army with a low wages. One of his...

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  • 2005
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    Pocta V+W

    Pocta V+W

    1 2005 HD

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  • 1968
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    Capricious Summer

    Capricious Summer

    6.704 1968 HD

    Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It...

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  • 1982
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    Ferat Vampire

    Ferat Vampire

    5.6 1982 HD

    A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a...

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  • 1980
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    Hra na telo

    Hra na telo

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Cremator

    The Cremator

    7.745 1969 HD

    In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

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  • 1978
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    The Apple Game

    The Apple Game

    5.9 1978 HD

    Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure out whether to get serious with a young nurse or to...

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  • 1979
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    Those Wonderful Movie Cranks

    Those Wonderful Movie Cranks

    6.4 1979 HD

    Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie...

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  • 1962
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    Ceiling

    Ceiling

    5.1 1962 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    The Return of the Prodigal Son

    The Return of the Prodigal Son

    5.8 1967 HD

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

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  • 1964
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    Hory hory

    Hory hory

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1964
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    A Place in the Crowd

    A Place in the Crowd

    1 1964 HD

    A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

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  • 1979
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    Minden szerdán

    Minden szerdán

    1 1979 HD

    Stephen, living in a troubled family, breaks into a grocery store and wreaks vandalism. He is sent to a reform school. Later he works in a cleaning...

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  • 1964
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    Dobrá rada je nad zlato

    Dobrá rada je nad zlato

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1966
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    Searching

    Searching

    5.1 1966 HD

    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,...

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  • 1966
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    Pearls of the Deep

    Pearls of the Deep

    6 1966 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    Pension pro svobodné pány

    Pension pro svobodné pány

    6 1965 HD

    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...

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  • 1966
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    Volejte Martina

    Volejte Martina

    6 1966 HD

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  • 1965
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    If a Thousand Clarinets

    If a Thousand Clarinets

    7.3 1965 HD

    A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments. Great mystery is immediately...

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  • 1966
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    Martin Speaking

    Martin Speaking

    1 1966 HD

    The second installment of children's stories investigator Dr. Martin. The film has two stories:

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  • 1966
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    Flám

    Flám

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1967
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    Private Torment

    Private Torment

    1 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1990
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    The Gentle Barbarian

    The Gentle Barbarian

    5.3 1990 HD

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

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  • 1995
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    Too Loud A Solitude

    Too Loud A Solitude

    7.5 1995 HD

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

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  • 1985
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    Albert

    Albert

    7 1985 HD

    Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty. Now he is playing time from time to rich...

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  • 1983
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    Hearty Greetings from the Globe

    Hearty Greetings from the Globe

    6.9 1983 HD

    ​Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.

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  • 1970
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    Nevěsta

    Nevěsta

    1 1970 HD

    The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very...

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  • 1972
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    Straw Hat

    Straw Hat

    6.1 1972 HD

    Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a...

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  • 1995
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    Joint Venture

    Joint Venture

    2 1995 HD

    Prague 1994, hotbed of international profiteers. Here you can still find buyers for discarded everyday objects, here you can still buy cheap houses -...

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  • 2014
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    Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“

    Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“

    1 2014 HD

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  • 2004
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    Daddy

    Daddy

    6.3 2004 HD

    This film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák.

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  • 1983
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    Fandy ó Fandy

    Fandy ó Fandy

    4.3 1983 HD

    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,...

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  • 1970
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    The Presence of Arnošt Lustig

    The Presence of Arnošt Lustig

    1 1970 HD

    "A man is immortal as long as he lives in the memory of others,” said well-known Czech writer Arnošt Lustig with a wry smile. In...

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  • 2012
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    Signál

    Signál

    4.4 2012 HD

    Two young technicians, Filos and Kája, come to a small village that is a bit cut off from the rest of the world in order to find the best...

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  • 1983
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    Passing Fancy

    Passing Fancy

    1 1983 HD

    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...

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  • 2014
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    Milan Čorba

    Milan Čorba

    1 2014 HD

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  • 1995
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    Má je pomsta

    Má je pomsta

    2 1995 HD

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  • 1979
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    Koportos

    Koportos

    1 1979 HD

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

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  • 1990
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    Martha and I

    Martha and I

    7 1990 HD

    Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been...

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  • 1990
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    Martha and I

    Martha and I

    7 1990 HD

    Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been...

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  • 1981
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    Heart Tremors

    Heart Tremors

    5.3 1981 HD

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

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  • 1993
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    Dr. Hrabal

    Dr. Hrabal

    1 1993 HD

    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...

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  • 2018
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    More Than Words

    More Than Words

    8 2018 HD

    TV miniseries "More than words explores the possibilities and ways of behavior in non-verbal communication, primarily movements, gestures and ways of...

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  • 1968
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    Dita Saxová

    Dita Saxová

    6.2 1968 HD

    A beautiful, underachieving, 18-year-old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy, and takes a young girl under her wing.

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  • 1966
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    An Occasion to Speak

    An Occasion to Speak

    1 1966 HD

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

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  • 2016
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    The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

    The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street

    3.3 2016 HD

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

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  • 1993
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    Everything I Like

    Everything I Like

    6.4 1993 HD

    A film about the uncertainties faced by a man in post-Communist Slovakia, his relationship with a teenage son and English teacher girlfriend who's...

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  • 1966
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    Nobody Will Laugh

    Nobody Will Laugh

    7 1966 HD

    A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets...

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  • 1999
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    All My Loved Ones

    All My Loved Ones

    7.2 1999 HD

    Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his family...

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  • 1965
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    Courage for Every Day

    Courage for Every Day

    5.9 1965 HD

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

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  • 2007
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    Teddy Bear

    Teddy Bear

    5.9 2007 HD

    Jirka, Roman, and Ivan have been friends since school. Today they are about 35 and, although they went into different fields, their friendship has...

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  • 2016
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    To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

    To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

    6 2016 HD

    Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica, István...

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  • 1967
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    Hotel for Strangers

    Hotel for Strangers

    5.8 1967 HD

    A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat...

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  • 1993
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    The Little Apocalypse

    The Little Apocalypse

    5.6 1993 HD

    An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a...

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  • 2002
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    The Sunken Cemetery

    The Sunken Cemetery

    1 2002 HD

    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....

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  • 1995
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    How to Deserve a Princess

    How to Deserve a Princess

    5.9 1995 HD

    A fairy tale of three brothers who try to save a princess kidnapped by an evil wizard.

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  • 2018
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    The Interpreter

    The Interpreter

    6 2018 HD

    80-year-old Ali Ungar comes across a book by a former SS officer describing his wartime activities in Slovakia. He realises his parents were executed...

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  • 1968
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    Crime in the Night Club

    Crime in the Night Club

    5.9 1968 HD

    A black comedy set in a Prague cabaret.

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  • 1999
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    Zimní víla

    Zimní víla

    1 1999 HD

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  • 1977
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    30 Maidens and Pythagoras

    30 Maidens and Pythagoras

    4.3 1977 HD

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

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  • 1983
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    Švédská zápalka

    Švédská zápalka

    4.5 1983 HD

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  • 1966
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    Daisies

    Daisies

    7.329 1966 HD

    Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.

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  • 2011
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    Jiří Menzel: 7 Questions

    Jiří Menzel: 7 Questions

    1 2011 HD

    An idiosyncratic reflection on the film Larks on a String and its history, shot by it's director Jiri Menzel.

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  • 1980
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    Blue Planet

    Blue Planet

    2 1980 HD

    A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.

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  • 1981
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    Bulldogs and Cherries

    Bulldogs and Cherries

    4.4 1981 HD

    The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried...

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  • 1964
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    Defendant

    Defendant

    6.6 1964 HD

    Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.

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  • 2018
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    CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

    CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

    6.5 2018 HD

    An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most...

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  • 1982
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    Babička se zbláznila

    Babička se zbláznila

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1987
    imgMovies

    Dámská jízda

    Dámská jízda

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1981
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    Povídka Malostranská

    Povídka Malostranská

    8 1981 HD

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  • 2009
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    Setkání v Praze, s vraždou

    Setkání v Praze, s vraždou

    1 2009 HD

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  • 1991
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    The Elementary School

    The Elementary School

    7.4 1991 HD

    The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined...

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  • 2002
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    Útek do Budína

    Útek do Budína

    1 2002 HD

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  • 1966
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    Closely Watched Trains

    Closely Watched Trains

    7.3 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    Closely Watched Trains

    Closely Watched Trains

    7.3 1966 HD

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  • 1985
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    My Sweet Little Village

    My Sweet Little Village

    7.3 1985 HD

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  • 1990
    imgMovies

    Larks on a String

    Larks on a String

    7 1990 HD

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  • 1990
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    Larks on a String

    Larks on a String

    7 1990 HD

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  • 1963
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    Our Mr. Foerster Died

    Our Mr. Foerster Died

    6.2 1963 HD

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  • 2007
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    I Served the King of England

    I Served the King of England

    6.9 2007 HD

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  • 2007
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    I Served the King of England

    I Served the King of England

    6.9 2007 HD

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  • 1963
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    Something Different

    Something Different

    6.3 1963 HD

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  • 2020
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    Brouk v hlavě

    Brouk v hlavě

    1 2020 HD

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  • 1984
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    The Snowdrop Festival

    The Snowdrop Festival

    6.5 1984 HD

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  • 1994
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    Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

    Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

    6.4 1994 HD

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  • 1968
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    Capricious Summer

    Capricious Summer

    6.704 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Capricious Summer

    Capricious Summer

    6.704 1968 HD

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  • 1981
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    Cutting It Short

    Cutting It Short

    7.3 1981 HD

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  • 1979
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    Those Wonderful Movie Cranks

    Those Wonderful Movie Cranks

    6.4 1979 HD

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  • 1976
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    Secluded, Near Woods

    Secluded, Near Woods

    7.4 1976 HD

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  • 1989
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    The End of Old Times

    The End of Old Times

    6.4 1989 HD

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  • 2002
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    Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

    Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

    6.6 2002 HD

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  • 1966
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    Pearls of the Deep

    Pearls of the Deep

    6 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    Pearls of the Deep

    Pearls of the Deep

    6 1966 HD

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  • 1968
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    Crime in the Night Club

    Crime in the Night Club

    5.9 1968 HD

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  • 1991
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    The Beggar's Opera

    The Beggar's Opera

    6 1991 HD

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  • 1968
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    Crime in the Night Club

    Crime in the Night Club

    5.9 1968 HD

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  • 2013
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    The Don Juans

    The Don Juans

    5 2013 HD

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  • 2013
    imgMovies

    The Don Juans

    The Don Juans

    5 2013 HD

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  • 1974
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    Who Looks for Gold?

    Who Looks for Gold?

    5 1974 HD

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  • 1986
    imgMovies

    Die Schokoladenschnüffler

    Die Schokoladenschnüffler

    5 1986 HD

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  • 1974
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    Who Looks for Gold?

    Who Looks for Gold?

    5 1974 HD

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  • 1990
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    Audience

    Audience

    6.5 1990 HD

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  • 1963
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    Our Mr. Foerster Died

    Our Mr. Foerster Died

    6.2 1963 HD

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  • 1989
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    The End of Old Times

    The End of Old Times

    6.4 1989 HD

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  • 1984
    imgMovies

    The Snowdrop Festival

    The Snowdrop Festival

    6.5 1984 HD

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  • 2002
    imgMovies

    One Moment

    One Moment

    1 2002 HD

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    The Beggar's Opera

    The Beggar's Opera

    6 1991 HD

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  • 1991
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    The Beggar's Opera

    The Beggar's Opera

    6 1991 HD

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  • 1981
    imgMovies

    Cutting It Short

    Cutting It Short

    7.3 1981 HD

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  • 1981
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    Tři v tom

    Tři v tom

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1971
    imgMovies

    Mandragora

    Mandragora

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1966
    imgMovies

    Crime at the Girls School

    Crime at the Girls School

    6.4 1966 HD

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  • 1966
    imgMovies

    Crime at the Girls School

    Crime at the Girls School

    6.4 1966 HD

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  • 2002
    imgMovies

    Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

    Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

    6.6 2002 HD

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  • 2009
    imgMovies

    Operation Dunaj

    Operation Dunaj

    5 2009 HD

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  • 2011
    imgMovies

    Jiří Menzel: 7 Questions

    Jiří Menzel: 7 Questions

    1 2011 HD

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  • 1979
    imgMovies

    Those Wonderful Movie Cranks

    Those Wonderful Movie Cranks

    6.4 1979 HD

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  • 1960
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    Prefabricated Houses

    Prefabricated Houses

    5.5 1960 HD

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  • 1960
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    Prefabricated Houses

    Prefabricated Houses

    5.5 1960 HD

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  • 1996
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    Hospoda

    Hospoda

    7 1996 HD

    Hospoda is a Czech television comedy series which premiered on TV Nova. From 1996 to 1997, 52 episodes were aired.

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  • 1997
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    Pražský písničkář

    Pražský písničkář

    1 1997 HD

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  • 2000
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    Příběhy slavných

    Příběhy slavných

    7 2000 HD

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  • 2009
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    Golden Sixties

    Golden Sixties

    1 2009 HD

    Television series Golden Sixties examines new insights into Czech and Slovak cinema of the 1960s and the role of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Each...

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  • 1988
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    Veselé příhody z natáčení

    Veselé příhody z natáčení

    1 1988 HD

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  • 2000
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    Krásný ztráty

    Krásný ztráty

    5.7 2000 HD

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