The Firemen’s Ball (1967)


Original title: Horí, má panenko
Year: 1967
Runtime: 1 hour,14 minutes
Country: Czechoslovakia | Italy
Language: Czech
Subtitles: English (.softsubs)
Genre: Comedy | Drama

Director: Milos Forman

Cast:
Jan Vostrcil … Head of Committee
Josef Sebánek … Committee Member #2
Josef Valnoha … Committee Member
Frantisek Debelka … Committee Member #1
Josef Kolb … Josef
Jan Stöckl … Retired Fire Chief
Vratislav Cermák … Committee Member
Josef Rehorek … Committee Member #4
Václav Novotný … Committee Member
Frantisek Reinstein … Committee Member
Frantisek Paska … Committee Member
Stanislav Holubec … Karel
Josef Kutálek … Ludva
Frantisek Svet … Old Man
Ladislav Adam … Committee Member

Plot/Synopsis:
The fire department in a small town is having a big party when the ex-boss of the department celebrates his 86th birthday. The whole town is invited but things don’t go as planned. Someone is stealing the prizes to the lottery and the candidates for the Miss Fire-Department beauty contest are neither willing or particularly beautiful.

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Charmers (2008)

Original title: Zaríkávacky
AKA:
Year: 2008
Runtime: 18 minutes
Country: Czech Republic
Language: Vietnamese | Czech
Subtitles: English (hard-subbed)
Genre: Drama | Short

Director: Gasper Sunuderl

Cast:
To Hai … Boy
Ta Thuy Dung … Girl
Lenka Zahradnická… Strange Girl

Plot/Synopsis:

The story evolves around a young Vietnamese living in Prague and working as a taxi driver, trying to cope with the new environment while still being part of the closed vietnamese community. The struggle between tradional and modern is shown through the encounter with two girls, one vietnamese and a czech. Being a taxi driver, he talks about the world outside to the little vietnamese, who is mainly constricted in the vietnamese ghetto, and offers her a way to get out – just for a while.
A poetic view on a actual Prague reality.

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Marian (1996)

Original title: Marian
AKA:
Year: 1996
Runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes
Country: Czech Republic | France
Language: Czech
Subtitles: English | Chinese (embedded vobsubs) & English (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director: Petr Václav

Cast:
Stefan Ferko … Younger Marian
Milan Cifra … Older Marian
Radek Holub … David
Tereza Zajickova … Eva
Jaroslava Vyslouzilová … Tosovska
Eva Hradilová … Teacher
Ludmila Kroková

Plot/Synopsis:

Told via flashback, this raw, emotional drama chronicles the events that led a 22-year-old Czech Gypsy to prison. Marian was born to an alcoholic father and a terrible mother. As a result he is sent to a government orphanage where he is labelled a problem child for his inability to speak Czech. Life in the orphanage is devoid of love and offers only minimal physical comforts. Sometimes life there is brutal. His one bright spot was the time he first spent with a kindly and encouraging teacher who inspired in him hope for a better future. One day something goes wrong and the teacher is forced to punish Marian who retaliates by stabbing her. Marian is a teen by the time he is released from a juvenile reformatory. He falls in love for the first time, but because it is a foreign emotion, he doesn’t know how to deal with it. By this time, the cruelty that has marked his life in institutions seems to have fated him to be a criminal and for Marian there can be no turning back. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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Capricious Summer (1968)

Original title: Rozmarné léto
Year: 1968
Runtime: 1 hour, 13 minutes
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: Czech
Subtitles: English | Romanian (.srt)
Genre: Comedy

Director: Jirí Menzel

Cast:
Rudolf Hrusínský … Antonín Dura
Vlastimil Brodský … Maj. Hugo
Frantisek Rehák … Priest / abbé / canon Roch
Míla Myslíková … Katerina Durová
Jana Preissová … Anna
Jirí Menzel … Arnostek (tightrope walker)
Bohus Záhorský … Starik
Vlasta Jelínková … Sluzebna
Alois Vachek … Muz v hospode
Bohumil Koska … Muz v hospode
Karel Hovorka … Muz v hospode
Antonin Prazak … Policajt
Pavel Bosek … Mayor

Plot/Synopsis:

Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine… A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening’s performance… Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna’s attractiveness…

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Seduction (1929)

Original title: Erotikon
Year: 1929
Runtime: 1 hour, 24 minutes
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: Silent
Subtitles: Czech (intertitles) & English (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director: Gustav Machatý

Cast:
Karel Schleichert … Railway Gatekeeper
Ita Rina … Andrea
Olaf Fjord … George Sydney
Theodor Pistek … Hilbert
Charlotte Susa … Gilda
Luigi Serventi … Jean
Ladislav H. Struna … Teamster
Milka Balek-Brodská … Midwife
Bohumil Kovár … Railwayman
Bedrich Saxl … Proprietor of the Couture
Vladimír Slavínský … Tailor
Bronislava Livia … Customer at Beauty Parlor
Václav Zichovský … Proprietor of the Pianos Store

Plot/Synopsis:
The film Erotikon, made by Gustav Machaty, caused controversy among the audiences of that time. What particularly shocked them was the way the director showed love scenes. Some admired it, some condemned it and, as a result, it was underrated and lost for years. Fortunately, the copy was found in the 1980s and restored for today’s audience who can admire the genius of Machaty.
Erotikon, like many silent movies, does not offer much action. The content of the movie is, from today’s perspective, quite naive. It is a story of complicated love affairs of George (Olaf Fjord) and his number of women. But, astonishingly, love is not showed as sweetly as in other movies of that time. Some love scenes are, indeed, very open and without taboo (Machaty’s way of showing sex was mostly revealed in Extase (1933).
There are three most memorable moments in this movie:
- a love scene between George and Andrea (Ita Rina). It is in no way vulgar but it is directed towards her face in ecstasy for most of the time. That is probably the thing that shocked the audiences.
- a scene of playing chess. The thrilling atmosphere is really extraordinary. In very few thrillers nowadays will you find an equally well made scene! WONDERFUL!
- a considerable number of funny slogans throughout the movie. Some are dated but still funny in a way.
For anyone who likes European cinema and for whom film is art in itself, no matter of when it was made, Erotikon is a must to see. It was a great work of the Czech cinema.

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The Good Soldier Svejk (1957)

Original title: Dobrý voják Svejk
Year: 1957
Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: Czech
Subtitles: English (.sub./idx)
Genre: Comedy | War

Director: Karel Steklý

Rudolf Hrusínský … Josef Svejk
Svatopluk Benes … Nadporucík lukás
Frantisek Filipovský … Bretschneider, agent
Josef Hlinomaz … Palivec
Bozena Havlícková … Katy Wendlerová
Eva Svobodová … Müllerová
Milos Kopecký … Katz, feldkurát
Felix Le Breux … Policejní rada
Libuse Bokrová … Baronka von botzenheimová
Bedrich Karen … Professor Heuer

Plot/Synopsis:
Svejk is a dumb , although he try to behave as normally as possible.Before the start of World War II, it does nothing more than to do silly things one after another, thus being arrested numerous times, each time being released for insufficient evidence.He’ll becomes the ordinance of a chaplain, which I will take him under his protection, but this it will lose at cards for Lieutenant Lukas, whose ordinance will become.Throughout these passes from one to another, poor soldier Svejk will cause compassion, and laughter

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The Little Mermaid (1976)

Original title: Malá morská víla
Year: 1976
Runtime: 1 hour 26 minutes
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: Czech
Subtitles: English | Czech (embedded vobsubs)
Genre: Family | Drama | Romance | Fantasy

Director: Karel Kachyna

Cast:
Miroslava Safránková … Malá morská víla
Radovan Lukavský … Král vsech morí
Petr Svojtka … Princ Jizní ríse
Libuse Safránková … Princezna
Marie Rosulková … Babicka
Milena Dvorská Milena Dvorská … Carodejnice
Jindrich Narenta … Rádce
Jirí Ornest … Princuv pobocník
Dagmar Patrasová … První sestra malé víly

Plot/Synopsis:
The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems to work at first, the prince is enchanted with her lovely appearance. But the memory of a foreign princess still haunts him: The one who found him on the beach where the mermaid had left him, and whom he (of course) believes to be his saviour. To resolve this mistake is too much for the mute little mermaid, and not even her father, king of all seas, can help her in the impending catastrophe.

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Black Peter (1964)

Original title: Cerný Petr
Year: 1964
Runtime: 1 hour, 25 minutes
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: Czech
Subtitles: Swedish | Danish | Norwegian | Finnish (embedded vobsub)
Genre: Drama

Director: Milos Forman

Cast:
Ladislav Jakim… Petr
Pavla Martinkova… Asa
Jan Vostrcil… Petr’s father
Vladimír Pucholt… Cenda
Pavel Sedlacek… Lada
Zdenek Kulhanek… Zdenek
Frantisek Kosina… Shop manager
Josef Koza… Mason master
Bozena Matuskova… Petr’s mother
Antonín Pokorny… Thief
Jaroslav Kladrubsky… Stockkeepper
Frantiska Skalova… Customer
Jaroslav Bendl… Mara
Majka Gillarova… Asa’s friend
Jaroslava Razova… Girl
Dana Urbankova… Girl
Frantisek Prazak… Sako’s friend

Plot/Synopsis:
Milos Forman’s 1963 debut BLACK PETER presages the Czech director’s lifelong thematic obsession with precocious, disgruntled outsiders waging war against social conformity and authoritarianism (ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, AMADEUS). This time the protagonist is Petr, a sullen Czech teenager forced by his overbearing father to take a demeaning job spying on potential shoplifters at a grocery store while seeking solace in the dancehalls of Bohemia. Both a darkly comic observation of adolescence and a subtle allegory of Communism’s intrusive politics, BLACK PETER ushered in the Czech New Wave that flourished until the Soviet invasion forced Forman and other dissident intellectuals into exile. ~ Indiepix Films

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Accumulator 1 (1994)

Original title: Akumulátor 1
Year: 1994
Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
Country: Czech Republic
Language: Czech
Subtitles: English (.vobsubs embedded in mkv & .srt external)
Genre: Comedy | Fantasy

Director: Jan Sverák

Cast:
Petr Forman … Olda Soukup
Edita Brychta … Anna
Zdenek Sverák … Fisarek: a natural healer
Bolek Polívka … Slezák
Ladislav Smoljak … Caretaker
Matej Forman
Markéta Frösslová … Anicka
Rudolf Hrusínský … Pitrysek
Jan Jíra … Healer Skála
Hugo Kaminský … Cameo
Jirí Kodet … Vasek Mikulik
Robert Kodym … Indian
David Koller … Cowboy
Daniela Kolárová … Marta Fisarkova
Vera Kresadlová … Mikulíková

Plot/Synopsis:
Olda is tired, exhausted, his life force sucked nearly dry. Fortunately a mysterious healer teaches him how to recharge his energy by tuning into nature, art, people, and sex. Yet it seems that somewhere out there is a deranged spirit world where Oldas hungry doppelganger lives by absorbing the energy of his human counterpart. And hes not the only one To find out why our hero must wield an arsenal of TV remotes and keep a cartload of timber handy for mortal combat with the ravenous of the nether-dimension, tune your mind to this science-fiction spectacle. You will never view Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (or going to the dentist) the same way again.

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Kawasaki’s Rose (2009)

Original title: Kawasakiho ruze
Year: 2009
Runtime: 1 hour,34 minutes
Country: Czech Republic
Language: Czech
Subtitles: Polish , Russian (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director: Jan Hrebejk

Cast:
Lenka Vlasáková … Lucie
Milan Mikulcík … Ludek
Martin Huba … Pavel
Daniela Kolárová … Jana
Antonin Kratochvil … Borek
Anna Simonová … Bára
Petra Hrebícková … Radka
Ladislav Chudík … Kafka
Ladislav Smocek … Dr. Pesek
Vladimir Kulhavy … Chief Physician

Plot/Synopsis:
The skeletons in the closet of one Czechoslovakian freedom fighter change the way his family and the world looks at him in this drama from Czech filmmaker Jan Hrebejk. Pavel Josek is a well-respected psychiatrist and college professor who is also known as a noted political activist and anti-Communist dissident in the years before the Velvet Revolution. Pavel has a supportive wife, Jana, and an adult daughter, Lucie, who is recovering from cancer treatment. The quiet life of Pavel and his family begins to fall apart when a filmmaker starts work on a documentary about his years as a dissident. Lucie’s husband, Ludek, who is working on the film as a sound engineer, reveals to her that he’s been having an affair with a former girlfriend, Radka; while Lucie tries to be rational about what’s happened, it doesn’t make her inclined to trust Ludek or what he has to say. But as the filmmakers look into Pavel’s life, they discover evidence that casts an ugly shadow on his past — documents suggest Pavel worked as an undercover agent for Czech intelligence, informing on his fellow radicals, and that his friend and colleague Borek played an unexpected role in his life. ~ Mark Deming, Allmovie

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