Jiří Černý

Snake Gas (2023)

This loose adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness follows Robert Klein as he sets out to find his brother, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. ...

Blood Kin (2021)

The film follows the fate of the real inhabitants of the former German village of Vitín. The central character of the film is Otto Hille, who comes from a Czech-German family. He prepares an expedition for the old and seriously ill Leopold Švarc, which i ...

Kryštof (2021)

The story of a barely grown man who lives as a fresh postulant before vows in a community of monks. He not only shares with his brothers their world of contemplation, but also, as a link in a long chain, he takes those persecuted by the communist regime ac ...

Magda (2021)

One chance encounter and a night spent together help Magda to discover what she probably doesn't need to live anymore and what she might need. ...

Macbeth: Too Much Blood (2020)

Divadlo Na zábradlí: Tajný agent (2020)

Mr. Verloc runs an anarchist business in London at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, but he is also a Russian agent. The Eastern power no longer wants harmless denunciations of radical comrades, but demands real action for its money. ...

Shadow Country (2020)

The film chronicles the events of a village on the Czech-Austrian border from the 1930s to 1950s, where genocide occurred due to fallout between German citizens and Czechs who collaborated with the Nazi regime during the war. ...

Charlatan (2020)

Born in the early 20th century, herbalist Jan Mikolasek became rich and famous after curing countless diseases with unorthodox means. A true emblem of Czechoslovakia before World War II, the healer became even more appreciated during the Nazi occupation an ...

Owners (2019)

Mrs. Zahrádková has a plan to convince the other co-owners of the flats to finally save the house in which they live together and which is in emergency condition. ...

Vratislav Effenberger or Black Shark Hunting (2018)

Toman (2018)

This fascinating historical drama looks at the life of "the Czech Schindler," Zdenek Toman, a controversial figure who was an unsavory politician and dubious entrepreneur, but also the savior of hundreds of Eastern European Jews. ...

May the Lord Be With Us (2018)

The Defenestration of Prague, which took place on May 23, 1618, was the decisive historical moment that unleashed the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) between several Catholic and Protestant states and changed the course of European history forever. (Additiona ...

Krásno (2014)

Story follows two best friend on private investigation. They are going to their hometown to prove that Michals mother was killed by his stepmother. ...

Divadlo Komedie 2002-2012 (2013)

What was the iconic theater scene and its creators like? The final stage of the Prague Chamber Theater, which provoked, shocked, and fascinated audiences for ten seasons at the Komedie Theater. ...

Antiklimax (2013)

A recording of a production by Divadlo Komedie. A shocking drama full of pain, whose heroine, an abused girl, seeks the only possible path to tragic liberation. The last play by Austrian playwright Werner Schwab is a shocking drama full of pain and abuse. ...

Honeymoon (2013)

A wedding is supposed to be a joyous occasion, but things can go awry. When an uninvited guest turns up at the church and later at the reception as well, the newly-weds' day turns sour. Shadows of the past can blight the most sumptuous of banquets and rend ...

Garbage, the City and Death (2012)

Romi, a prostitute, is anything but successful at her job: she is of far too gentle a nature for her clients. The more obstinately she is pushed to the streets by her pimp Franz, the closer she is to a complete breakdown. One day Romi is addressed by a pro ...

A Night Too Young (2012)

On New Year's Day, two boys wind up in the apartment of Katerina, a teacher from their school, along with her friends, Stepan and David. As the older trio bickers, drinks and flirts, the boys gain eye-opening insight into the adult world. ...

The Blue Tiger (2012)

Johanka and Matyáš have an unusual home. The two live among the animals and plants of an enchanted botanical garden in the middle of the city, but this idyll is under threat. To the children's horror, the mayor wants to build a theme park on the same spo ...

Head - Hands - Heart (2010)

1914. Colonel von Haukwitz dies under mysterious circumstances during an occult séance. His fiancée, actress Klára Knabelová, discovers during the investigation that the head, hands, and heart were removed from the body after death. In her search for a ...

Piko (2010)

The sudden death of her daughter pushes a mother to defy the laws of physics when she tries to travel back in time to prevent a fatal car accident. ...

Klub osamělých srdcí (2010)

The year 1968 came and went, and the world—at least for us—began to change dramatically. Few people expected the change to be so great and so bad. Dark premonitions are slowly coming true, and everyone must live through their own. Even Lukáš Knapp, a ...

Vivaldianno MMVIII (2009)

Expensive Father (2009)

Blackjack isn't a difficult game so everyone thinks they can play it. My father was a typical example. He thought luck would come his way but he lost everything instead. And I need that money. I want to be something he never was. I can't think of anythin ...

3 Seasons in Hell (2009)

A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls. ...