Jan Daňhel Movies

A portrait of a small Moravian village and its quirky inhabitants.

Martina is 18, loves dancing and goes by a nick name Shakira. Also, today she is leaving an orphanage...

A Czech high diver's Olympic dreams are shattered when she suffers a devastating injury while training. Forced to leave the sport she loves, she...

A very free adaptation of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus", Goethe's "Faust" and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to...

Six Prague residents pursue bizarre rituals. Mr. Peony builds a chicken costume to wear while enacting homicidal fantasies toward neighbor Mrs....

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...

A doc presenting portraits of four people unafraid to reveal their particular lifelong penchant for sadomasochistic practices: Altair, whose...

Adam Oĺha's father, a well-known Slovak educator and filmmaker, decided to leave his wife and six children and start anew after years of living...

Michal and Juraj, two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia, must decide if they'll choose the easier way of...

The Toilet as a Place of Encounter with the World and with Oneself. A documentary reflection by Jan Gogola Jr. A meditation on the toilet as more...

1914. Colonel von Haukwitz dies under mysterious circumstances during an occult séance. His fiancée, actress Klára...

After years together, Petr and Hana, partners in work and in life, share their unspoken erotic fantasies. What begins as an innocent conversation...

When not serving regulars at a pub in the middle of a sleepy northern Moravian village, thirtysomething Maruna spends time with hesitant Jura and...

A naive tale about the ruthless cruelty of our existence, about a crocodile and how it all turned out well.

A pig farm in Lety, South Bohemia would make an ideal monument to collaboration and indifference, says writer and journalist Markus Pape. Most of...

The father falls into a coma. The mother and son silently concentrate all their powers. They meekly accept the diagnosis but resist the verdict. Yet...

Behind the curtain of the film strip the concreteness of images appears and disappears again with varying levels of visuals shifts and deformations....

An imaginative and playful collage of images from the life of cows. A mosaic of small stories from around the world, in which cows experience both...

Conceptual visual artist Ján Mančuška died in 2011. However, in his short 39 years of existence, he managed to create a number of...