The film begins in 1938. The main storyline focuses on the fateful love between Frantisek, a young lawyer and athlete, and Michelle, a dancer, who meet at the post-war European Basketball Championships in Geneva. Michelle has suffered a hard life, having escaped from her home because of Stalin and Hitler. Their story, which, in addition to politics, is affected by two contrary ...
In her documentary on Hungarian-Slovak relations, Vladislava Plancíková focuses on the word "felvidék", which refers to the now non-existent northern part of Austro-Hungary. In a personal collage consisting of the stories of members of her Slovak-Hungarian family and of visual references to historical events, she follows the eventful and today often taboo history of the post-wa...
This is a very bizarre fairy tale. It commences with a wedding and singing and dancing but nearly the whole village is wiped out by wolves. The bride gives birth to a daughter several months later and promises her to the boy who saved her.
Ten years later there is another disruption when Some circus folk come by and the villagers trick them into staying. Tragedy ensues...
This ...
The most recent film-novel by the Czech classic film-maker, Karel Vachek, is on the subject of alien civilizations, who do not just live in the cosmos but on planet Earth itself.
ANNA ALEXANDROVNA BARKOVA (1901-1976) Journalist and poet, meeting suspicious characters. Involved in immoral love affairs. Work in the Kremlin, fired. 1934 - Arrested, 5 years of penal servitude in Karaganda. Lived in Ukraine during the WWII. 1946 - Arrested, 5 years of penal servitude in the Komi Republic. 1956 - Rehabilitated, disability pension. 1957 - Arrested, 10 years of...
14岁的亚当的父亲被谋杀了，但是没有人证和物证能帮助警方判案。葬礼之后，亚当的母亲为了给自己的孩子提供庇护，便嫁给了她的妹夫茨卡。茨卡是一个小偷，还放放高利贷。为了维护家族成员不受茨卡的欺负，亚当一夜之间长成了一个大人，他随时准备为家庭牺牲自己的一切。
亚当的生活中有两个亮点，首先他喜欢接受拳击训练，而且他还有一个黑眼珠的女朋友。当母亲被送到妇产科医院的时候，亚当的继父逼着亚当和他的兄弟上街为自己“工作”，后来亚当被捕。出狱之后，亚当发现自己失去了一切，他被拳击俱乐部赶了出来，女朋友也被她家里人送去了捷克。
亚当发现自己的继父和父亲的死有着千丝万缕的联系，在亲情、法律和家庭的冲突之中，亚当失去了生活的方向。他想做出努力来改变这一切，可是这些努力最终都指向了一个悲剧性的结果。
Top cyclist Roman has had enough of serving as a domestique, a bicycle racer who sacrifices for the team. And since strenuous training and a strict regimen don’t lead to the type of performance he longs for, he sets up an oxygen tent at home. His obsession with having a sports career, however, renders him oblivious to his wife arlota’s desire to have a baby. A claustrophobic d...
