Movies: Jaromil Jireš
- 1970
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
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Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a dif...
- 2018
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel (2018)
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An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel....
- 1972
And Give My Love to the Swallows (1972)
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This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she was tortured and eventually executed by the Nazis, her diaries indicate that she was optimistic for t...
- 1974
People from the Subway (1974)
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Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and finalizing construction of subway and their lives crossed at certain points of this construction....
- 1966
Pearls of the Deep (1966)
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A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally ch...
- 1969
The Joke (1969)
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In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wif...
- 1982
Opera ve vinici (1982)
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- 1979
The Young Man and Moby Dick (1979)
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Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad Labem together with her young assistant Nada (Zlata Adamovská). She is hoping that her ex-husband, outstanding practical chemical eng...
- 1977
Flying Saucers Over Our Village (1977)
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A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer....
- 1988
O Háderunovi a víle Elóře (1988)
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- 1966
An Occasion to Speak (1966)
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Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965....
- 1974
Il Divino Boemo (1974)
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- 1968
Don Juan 68 (1968)
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- 1964
The Hall of Lost Steps (1964)
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In a series of juxtaposed images and sounds, Jaromil Jireš comments on the tragic premature death of thousands as well as their posterity due to the atomic bomb....
- 1961
Footprints (1961)
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This early short by Jaromil Jireš anticipates the formal and stylistic experimentation that would characterize VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS....
- 1984
Katapult (1984)
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Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life....
- 1973
Kasař (1973)
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- 1977
The Island of the Silver Herons (1977)
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The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them. Heinrich comes from an officer's family with an army tradition and is preparing to enter cadet college. ...
- 1964
The Cry (1964)
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While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends to his job as a television repairman, Slavek fondly remembers how he first met Ivana and the days th...
- 1987
Lion with a White Mane (1987)
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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 head and his strong character, which could overcome the adversities of fate....