Jan Čuřík Movies

Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and...

Documentary by Jan Kadar

Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and...

This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she...

The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his...

Bernhard works as a warehouse clerk in Munich. After being sentenced to probation for a physical altercation with a right-wing extremist, he could no...

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

This wacky musical comedy builds on absurd ideas, parodic humour and many variously subverted references to famous...

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided to hold a traditional ball despite the ban....

A harsh and raw story about the difficult life of a village woman and the sad fate of her three daughters...

A Czech psychological film about the school of life, its sorrows and beauties. The main character is a young aspiring nurse Marie Sahulová,...

Five Girls Around the Neck, in 1967, set out to explore that critical age of adolescence when a person's character is formed for good or evil. Schorm...

The short story film follows the fate of three young men who will soon have to decide what to do with their lives. The first "Poet", an aspiring...

In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint....

A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with...