Jiří Stivín

Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on Vacation (2006)

This quirky documentary follows Vaclav Havel on an eye-opening journey across his native Czechoslovakia in the days before he became president of the Czech Republic. A leading playwright, essayist, intellectual and political dissident in 1985, Havel decide ...

Boomerang (1997)

The story, written by former George Stransky former political prisoners and today's chairman Pen Club is situated to 50 years and uranium camp of political prisoners in Pribram, where after the fall of the Stalinist cult comes at the end of 1958 as a priso ...

The Fortress (1994)

Set in the late 80s in a quiet, rural village headed by a suspicious, conspiring group of nasty leaders. Ewald has arrived there to measure water levels. Surrounding the fortress near the village are soldiers. ...

Vnuci Antoina de Saint-Exupéryho (1994)

Vaclav Havel, ein böhmisches Märchen (1993)

Martha and I (1990)

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 dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who ...

Jestřábí moudrost (1990)

A gloomy tale about a king whose pride robbed him of love, friends and power. A cruel curse is at the beginning of the story of this fairy tale based on an old Irish legend. Until the king's newly born son raises his sword against his father, there will be ...

Boy's Vacation (1989)

A father/son get-together trying, in their inept way, to do some repair work to their home that they have out in the country. ...

Prstienky z kukučiny (1989)

Zlatá flétna (1988)

The fairy tale tells the story of two musicians, Princess Clara and the magician Manetti. Tomáš and Jakub free the princess from the evil power of the magician's golden flute, but the magician is not about to give up so easily. ...

Young Edisons (1987)

Children's film about a young boy who moves from the city to the country. At first he finds it difficult to make friends, until others discovers his gift with electronics. ...

The Tinderbox (1987)

A modern version of a classical fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a veteran who got rich thanks to a magic flint and thus he could marry a beautiful princess. ...

Dámská jízda (1987)

Antonyho šance (1986)

Antony is obsessed with the idea of a happy family life, but his young daughter has to be cared for by the parents of his wife, who died in a car accident. Unfortunately, Martha, whom Antony has somewhat recklessly married, has a fundamentally different vi ...

As Good as Poison (1986)

Engineer Pavel Hnyk is successful at work, but not very happy in his private life. He is approaching his fiftieth birthday and he can't shake the feeling that life is slipping away from him. The most effective medicine for such woes is amorous adventures, ...

What's Up Doc? (1985)

Bohouš Burda, a forty-year-old idealist disillusioned with city life and his failing marriage, abandons it all to run a mobile dental clinic in the mountains. He meets Terezka, who shares his yearning for a simpler existence, but even in remote nature the ...

Questions for Two Women (1985)

Film director Drahomíra Vihanová is preparing some interviews with two women. The women are at first sight opposites, but in reality they have much in common. Through the interviews the film director hopes to get a deeper understanding of herself as well ...

Tandem (1985)

János is present at one of Tamás's concerts in the country. After the concert, he takes Tamás's son home in his car, while the couple worry about their son's whereabouts. Later they meet again. Once they played together and were good friends, but János ...

Matylda and her Spare Head (1985)

Surreal short animation about a clever girl with an amazing memory. Things go well for her until she can't remember facts about polar bears for a school project. ...

Mr. Pip's Courtships (1985)

A courtship journey of Mr. ...

King Thrushbeard (1984)

When a selfless king learns of a beautiful princess in a neighboring kingdom who callously turns down every suitor with an insult, he tries his luck to no avail. So, he hatches a plot with her father in which the princess is married to him, in disguise as ...

The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1984)

A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even to ...

Predators Pavilion (1983)

A young man named Milan arrives at the zoo, having decided to study veterinary medicine. He meets his older colleague Kalman, a tough and cruel zookeeper who despotically controls not only the animals but also the people around him. From that moment on, th ...

Oči plné snehu (1983)

Players (1982)

Cartoon tennis match, with players based on Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe. ...

The Glass House (1982)

A story about a life of a group of children in the foster home. ...

Zlatá ručka (1982)

Nechci nic slyšet (1978)

An 11-year-old boy is the only survivor of a tragic car accident in which both parents are killed. It's not until he meets a travelling student theatre company that he is able to shake off the long-term shock... ...

About Dressy Sally (1976)

Sally, a dressy little girl, receives a lesson from a sorcerer about lying and happiness. ...

A City in White (1972)

Pan Tomšík (1972)

Pařížská komuna (1971)

Django (2024)

Kouzelný kopec (2023)

Documentary about Barrandov studios. ...

Late Night Talks with Mother (2003)

Taking a cue from Franz Kafka's "Letter to My Father," this highly personal film follows Czech director Jan Nemec as he attempts to engage in a dialogue with his deceased mother. While alive, Nemec's mother had a troubled relationship with her son; this ru ...

Horí (1982)

Zlatá ručka (1982)

Dům Na poříčí (1977)

The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding the great construction disaster in Prague in 1928, in which 46 construction workers died. The disaster thrilled the entire republic at the tim ...

Půlnoční kolona (1973)

A group of soldiers is supposed to ensure the smooth nighttime passage of the military convoy through Prague, but things turn out differently. Eloquent young men convince the good-natured commander to sign a leave of absence, and the main character is left ...

A City in White (1972)

The Valley of the Bees (1968)

Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin. After years of hardship, Ondrej escapes from the Order when he is wrongly punished, and sets out for his former home. Arriving to discov ...

Škola hříšníků (1966)

Pavlata, the director of an educational institution for juvenile offenders, will push for the early release of Pepík Adamec, whom he respects for his sincere efforts and good work record. However, the boy bears the dishonest and dishonourable behaviour of ...

Třiatřicet stříbrných křepelek (1965)

A psychological study of the life of a woman, a working mother of two young children. The film captures a small slice of her life, just one day, during which the heroine takes stock of what she has experienced so far and what she has succeeded or failed in ...

Fugue on the Black Keys (1965)

Fati Farari, a black man from Africa, is completing his studies in classical piano at the Music Academy of Prague. It's the day before his first solo concert, where he is going to play Bach. While he strolls around the city he is thinking, not so much abou ...

Zpívali jsme Arizonu (1964)

It is the spring of 1945 and the end of the Third Reich is approaching. Yet all reserves are being deployed to save the Nazi regime. Even the students of one gymnasium are sent to build fortified defensive lines. But the conscious young men plan to escape ...

Joseph Kilian (1964)

The story is about Harold, an isolated figure in an overwhelming world of totalitarian bureaucracy. Harold tries to find the elusive Joseph Kilian, an old acquaintance, in Prague. When Harold stumbles across a state-run cat-lending store, he impulsively re ...

Prague Blues (1963)

African student Omar would like to return home to Angola, but he is enrolled in a three-year postgraduate research fellowship at a clinic in Prague. One day while seeing off a friend at the airport, he and a girl named Mariama are brought together by chan ...

Okurkový hrdina (1963)

An insight into the lives of adolescents, it is about an ordinary boy who falls in love with a student. But soon he faces a serious rival in the form of a local seducer... ...

Bylo nás deset (1963)

At the beginning, the newly arrived soldiers form a musical theatre troupe to escape the humiliation of the older ones. They vow that they will be good to the next recruits. But it turns out that nothing can be done without strictness and that greed is not ...

The Night Guest (1961)

When a man stops at a motel one evening in 1961, his tormenting behavior drives one of the people present at the motel to remember his experiences in a concentration camp during WWII. ...

Konec strašidel (1953)

The story of a group of little boys from a border town in Western Bohemia who help catch marauders. ...