A youthful fight over a girl sends two brothers on separate paths in life in this tragicomedy with one foot in the crime world. Urbane Miki becomes a successful but alcoholic neurosurgeon with a trail of broken hearts in his wake, while Afghan-war veteran Richard lives an isolated small town life with two daughters. As they revisit their long-dormant grudge match, can two wrong...
Karel Kachyňa has managed to credibly portray the glum fifties even during the times of the Normalization, without resorting to considerable idealizations. Even though he had to abandon any of the political context whatsoever, he captured the often bizarre realities of these times past. For this movie he chose the picturesque ikov (worker's part of Prague, his film Lásky mezi...
The 2-part feature-length documentary "25 ze edesátych aneb eskoslovenská nová vlna" ("25 from the Sixties, or Czechoslovak New Wave") presents a complex view of the phenomenon of Czech and Slovak New Wave in the cultural and social context of the 60's. 25 fundamental films commented on by their makers and film historians offer the viewer a dramatic insight into the golden er...
This is first student film made by Drahomira Vihanova one of most important but sadly also one of most overlooked directors of Czech new wave who latter shot famous movie Squandered Sunday (Zabita nedele). Its also first Vihanova on the tracker.
FUGUE ON THE BLACK KEYS tells the story of an African student who studies the piano in Prague in the 1960'. The movie is shot in the s...
