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