Winner of a record 12 Czech Lions this year including Best Film, A Prominent Patient concerns the son of the venerated President of the first […]

A massive box-office hit in Slovakia, this delightful romantic comedy is a breath of fresh air in Slovak, Czech and Polish cinema. Eva Urbaníková’s sexually […]

A massive box-office hit in the Czech Republic, this sequel to a beloved fairy tale reunites director Jiří Strach with actors Ivan Trojan and Jiří […]

In the 75th anniversary of the celebrated act of resistance depicted within it, Anthropoid is surely the most exciting and authentic of the many films […]

One of two fairytales he shot simultaneously (the other being The Ninth Heart), Juraj Herz’s adaptation surely remains the darkest, wintriest, most fetid filmic interpretation […]

Soccer commonly enjoys the epithet “the world game”, indicative of its stature as the one sport that brings together peoples of all nations. However, that […]

On the cusp of coming of age, 17-year-old Lena (the remarkable Dominika Morávková-Zeleníková) has her confidence and autonomy shattered when a teacher – adored at […]

Rising Polish actress Michalina Olszańska puts in an astonishing, Czech Lion-winning performance as Olga Hepnarová, the last woman executed in Czechoslovakia, in this gripping true […]

This gritty, handsomely shot political thriller has revived public and juridical interest in a famous unsolved abduction case reeking of criminal impropriety in the uppermost […]

Josef Koudelka is one of the most revered figures connected with the Magnum photographic agency; images of his remain among the most iconic of those […]

Ten-year-old Jarka lives in a chaotic Bratislava apartment with her neglectful, fun-loving, young mother and cantankerous, ailing grandmother. Left to fend for herself, Jarka one […]

Widely held to have revitalised Hungarian cinema, Zoltán Fábri’s 1956 classic returns in a 4K digital restoration which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, […]

Iva Janžurová puts in a tour-de-force performance as twin sisters Klára and Viktoria, the latter hell-bent on doing away with the former, in Juraj Herz’s […]

A virginal woman (Iva Janžurová) hopes to marry a jaded soldier in the Austrian army (Petr Čepek), wilfully ignorant of the dissolute proclivities that might […]

Six folk tales – foundational myths and legends of the Czech people – are drawn from Alois Jirásek’s 1894 book of the same name and […]

A conscientious Latin teacher (Ernö Szabó) has an essay published on the great Carthaginian general Hannibal, which leads to a sudden, dizzying rise in acclaim […]

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this American-Hungarian co-production is an adaptation of one of the most famous of all Hungarian […]

Karl Kopfrkingl, chillingly portrayed by Rudolf Hrušínský, is a cremator wooed by Nazism in the early days of the German occupation. Production of Juraj Herz’s […]

Four middle-aged men meet in a bar in Budapest during its occupation by Nazi Germany. One, a watchmaker (Lajos Őze), poses to his friends a […]

Adam Krajňák (Tomáš Maštalír) is the head of a tightknit operation smuggling cigarettes from Ukraine into the EU via Slovakia. When this is made precarious […]

It’s the sweltering summer of 1992 – three years since the Velvet Revolution overthrew Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party rule and six months before the Czechs’ and […]

The winner of the 1965 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film returns in a glorious digital restoration which premiered at Karlovy Vary this year. With […]