Míla Myslíková Movies

Based on book by Svatopluk Turek.

Dr. Lorenc selects excerpts from older Czech films for a symposium on laughter.

In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is...

When he returns to Prague from a stint in the Army, Lada does not seem to fit in anywhere, and he cannot get the hang of the system of deliberately...

The story of an ordinary family, which leaves no doubt that it is moving from the private sphere to the social landscape, to the absurdities of an...

The story takes place at the time when Giacomo Casanova, probably the most famous conqueror of women, held the position of librarian at the...

A silent slapstick with a band of absurd gags.

Dr. Štěpán, dismissed for his outspokenness, returns to his hometown determined not to bend his ethical principles to the ruthless...

A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a...

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

The fate of the insignificant poet Leonard Undene is transposed into the media atmosphere of the late 1960s. An ironic image of the times, a black...

Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like every likable rogue, he has a worthy adversary -...

In many fairy tales, a person has fallen in love with a supernatural being, but in few is the love story told as masterfully as in Mahen's about a...

A petrol pump is run by a permanent team: the manager Vávra, a former civil engineer ing. Stejskal, a smug crook named Karafa, and an old man,...

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...

When Dr. Hahn is found murdered in the hospital’s inspection room, investigators question several suspects: his colleague and longtime lover...

The story of a marriage. Mrs. Rabbit constantly watches her weight and counts calories, but she also torments her husband with hunger. So one day, on...

During the Thirty Years' War, ploughman Petr, recruiter Matěj and country girl Lenka are caught up in both sides of the war and experience many...