Václav Havel

Zánik Československa v parlamentu (2024)

Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me? (2024)

This time-lapse documentary follows the last years of former President Václav Havel's life, creating a multi-layered portrait of a world-famous political icon and important playwright, but also an ordinary man plagued by health problems. Havel allows the ...

Ján Langoš – strážca pamäti (2023)

Elizabeth II: Three days in the Czech Republic (2022)

Zappa (2020)

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands o ...

Forman vs. Forman (2019)

A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker Miloš Forman (1932-2018): his tragic childhood, his major contribution to the cultural movement known as the Czech New Wave, his exile in Paris, his trouble ...

Rolling Stones – Hearts for Prague (2018)

Mečiar: The Lust For Power (2017)

The film Mečiar is the confession of the young director Tereza Nvotová about Vladimír Mečiar and the influence that this politician had on Slovak society, but also on the life of Tereza herself. When the totalitarian communist regime fell in Czechoslov ...

Jak odchází prezident... (2016)

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)

Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa's world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in t ...

Václav Havel - Living in Freedom (2014)

Bohemian, playwright, and suddenly president at the end of 1989: Czech European Václav Havel played a decisive role in shaping the history of the continent in the second half of the 20th century. Andrea Sedláčková recounts Havel's almost novel-like lif ...

Olga (2014)

Věra 68 (2012)

Vera Cáslavská, the most successful Czechoslovak sportswoman and the fourth most successful Olympic sportswoman globally, won seven gold and four silver medals. After her 1968 Mexico City Olympics victory, she became the second most popular woman after J ...

The Presence of Arnošt Lustig (2012)

"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 December 2006 when her father turned 80, filmmaker Eva Lustigová began to see just how closely his words applied to himself p ...

I am Fishead (2011)

A provocative snapshot of the world we live in. It is a well-known fact that our society is structured like a pyramid. The very few people at the top create conditions for the majority below. Who are these people? Can we blame them for the problems our so ...

Czech Made Man (2011)

The movie is based on the narrative of a Czech multimillionaire who achieved success not by stripping companies, making crooked deals and crony-ism, but by blazing his own trail like Schweikesque self-made man. He realizes early on that he has nobody but h ...

Leaving (2011)

A bitter sweet comedy that follows a highly appointed Chancellor who set to step down from his position after years of service to his country. With just two last days left to enjoy his palatial villa before he is finally evicted, his situation gradually go ...

Eye Over Prague (2010)

A personal and political biography of the Octopus, or the Prague National Library project, but also a biography of the last years of the life of the author of this design, Jan Kaplický, who wrote in his diary in 1998: to win the competition and have one l ...

Life Is Bearable at Times... (2010)

Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska. ...

Václav Havel : L'éternel insurgé (2009)

Five years after stepping down as President of the Republic, Vaclav Havel returns to the theater with a play that raises questions. A play that examines the ills of our society, and humorously depicts the pretentiousness of politicians. This film combines ...

Anatomie gagu (2008)

Wisdom (2008)

Inspired by the idea that the greatest gift one generation can give to another is the wisdom it has gained from experience, 'Wisdom' seeks to create a record of a group of people over the age of 65 who have all made their mark on the world. ...

Citizen Havel (2008)

The documentary explores the presidency of Václav Havel, a poet who unexpectedly became president. The film, starting in 1992, captures Havel's experiences after the breakup of Czechoslovakia, a significant defeat for him as he had campaigned for its cont ...

Hammer & Tickle (2007)

Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about "jokes" under the Soviet Union. ...

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 ...

The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (2003)

A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. Between March 13 and August 2, 1939, Nicholas Winton organized 8 transports to take children from Prague to new homes in Great Br ...

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 ...

The Plastic People of the Universe (2001)

Meet The Plastic People of the Universe, the avant-garde, jazz-rock, Sun Ra meets Velvet Underground, Czech revolutionaries. A tribute to the band that against all odds used the power of their music to help topple their oppressive government. ...

Bohemia Docta or the Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-House of the Heart (A Divine Comedy) (2000)

A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to collaborating with the secret police, Jaroslav Foglar can't find a bottle-opener, and Ivan Diviš makes observations ...

Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart (1998)

An incredible retracing of the evolution of Reed's remarkable career over three decades. Filled with interviews with Reed, his friends and some of the major artists influenced by Reed including David Bowie, David Byrne, Patti Smith, Suzanne Vega, Dave Stew ...

Stone Bridge (1996)

A bitter comedic-drama centering around Tomas, a former promising young director who must cope with a commerce driven world he no longer wants to participate in. ...

What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Ceský Krumlov, or How I Formed a New Government (1996)

Quite a few years have passed since November 1989. Czechoslovakia has been divided up and, in the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus's right-wing government is in power. Karel Vachek follows on from his film New Hyperion, thus continuing his series of comprehen ...

A znovu Žebrácká opera (1996)

Two different productions of Václav Havel's Beggar's Opera reveal the political dynamics of Czechoslovakia before and after the velvet revolution. ...

Drawn from Memory (1995)

Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memories, vivid recollections, and the occasional evocative photograph his life as the rebellious son of Jan Fierlinger, Czechoslovakian career politician. ...

Curious: The Velvet Underground in Europe (1993)

Spotlights the Velvet Underground's 1993 reunion tour of Europe, interspersing footage of the band's Paris concert and interviews with the members of the group. Concerts in Prague and Berlin included. ...

Vaclav Havel, ein böhmisches Märchen (1993)

New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood (1992)

From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and many-layered film-argument about Czechoslovak democracy in the period of its rebirth, all administered with the director's ini­mitable ...

November's Children: Revolution in Prague (1991)

A first-hand account of the tumultuous events of 1989 when a student-led revolution succeeded in overthrowing Czechoslovakia's repressive Communist regime. The film, which includes rare government and underground footage, follows the lives of three Czechos ...

Why Havel? (1991)

The first part of the block will be dedicated to the monograph Vojtěch Jasný: The Film Poet in Exile (2020) authored by the film historian Jiří Voráč. The monograph is centered on the legendary director's life and career after his emigration to Weste ...

Bill Moyers: Beyond Hate (1991)

Hate has many faces: racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sectarianism, domestic violence. But do we really understand its roots, and are there practical ways to cope with it? What is hate doing to us? And what does hate do for us? ...

TGM the Liberator (1990)

The life of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first elected President of Czechoslovakia following the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918. ...

The Stock-Check (1981)

Czech semi-documentary. ...

Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy (1968)

An Occasion to Speak (1966)

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

Every Young Man (1966)

Jurácek's feature debut is shot in two parts. In the first, a corporal accompanies a new recruit with a sore Achilles tendon for his physical, and all the girls or young women they see are played by the same actress (Ruzickova). In the longer second segme ...

Mlha (1966)

The work of actors on a stage makes a dreamlike parallelism between artistic immagination and the concreteness of everyday life. ...

Blue Moon Once (2023)

John the Baptist finds himself in a Holešovice silo, a wanderer roams across Prague´s brownfields and several women face their fathers. ...

Leaving (2011)

A bitter sweet comedy that follows a highly appointed Chancellor who set to step down from his position after years of service to his country. With just two last days left to enjoy his palatial villa before he is finally evicted, his situation gradually go ...

Heart Beat 3D (2010)

A visual dreamscape of Prague streets, a hallucinatory vision of a world from the operating table for robotic heart surgeries, collaged together with the stories narrated by the mysterious Dr. B, who is a gifted surgeon at the centre of a conspiracy and a ...

Mlýny (1994)

The Beggar's Opera (1991)

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 hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay. Composers and writers have penned v ...

Redevelopment (1991)

The ruined castle is inhabited by architects who, feeling the spirit of the place, want to direct the modernization of the settlement below the castle from here. Despite the residents' protests, the architects want to make the people happy by force. ...

Largo Desolato (1990)

A fictionalized autobiographical play written by Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel in 1984 upon his release from a four-and-one-half-year prison term for political subversion. The play focuses on two days in the life of a dissident w ...

Audience (1990)

A recording of the legendary production "Audience" from the Prague Drama Club with Josef Abrhám and Pavel Landovský. In 1975, Václav Havel worked as a labourer in the brewery in Trutnov; he could do nothing else. And it was here that he made perhaps his ...

Pétition (1987)

A César award nominated short feature. ...

Protest (1981)

A dissident Czechoslovakian playwright awaits trial for his activities against the current political regime. ...

Audiens (1981)

After imprisonment, Vanék can only take the worst work on a small village brewery. ...

Sorry... (1978)

Two TV Plays by Vaclav Havel, one called 'Audience', and one called 'Private View'. ...

Mlha (1966)

The work of actors on a stage makes a dreamlike parallelism between artistic immagination and the concreteness of everyday life. ...