Oldřich Musil
1921 - 1983
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
Karel Zeman
Miloš Kopecký, Rudolf Jelínek
The 20th century's first man lands on the moon and discovers - that Baron Munchausen has already beaten him to it, along with Cyrano and characters from Jules Verne's lunar-landing novel. The Baron spirits the young cosmonaut by horse-drawn ship back to an ancient "Earth", where they insult a sultan, rescue a princess, fall in love with the princess, and then as a trio have further experiences in a world of pastel colors, ornate dreamlike settings, and the inevitable angry disrupters of peacefulness and love.
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
Jumping Over Puddles
Karel Kachyňa
Vladimír Dlouhý, Zdena Hadrbolcová
This Czechoslovakian children’s film takes place during the last days of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The young son of a horse trainer loves nothing more than riding his horse, until he is stricken by polio…
Jumping Over Puddles
The Stolen Airship
Karel Zeman
Michal Pospíšil, Hanuš Bor
The Stolen Airship (Czech: Ukradená vzducholod) is a 1967 live-action/animated film by Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman. The story is based loosely on Jules Verne's novels Two Years' Vacation and The Mysterious Island. The film in Art Nouveau style consists of live-action scenes, generally shot in black and white, as well as hand-drawn, stop motion, and cutout animation. Various live-action and animated elements are often composited into the same scene.
The Stolen Airship
Zabil jsem Einsteina, pánové...
Oldřich Lipský
Jiří Sovák, Jana Brejchová
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician's research there will be no atomic bombs.
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
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Ivo Novák, Václav Wasserman
Vlasta Burian, Václav Vydra
Сатирическая комедия, сюжет которой разворачивается где-то около 1900 года. Жителей Петице волнует таинственная посылка, которая должна быть доставлена лучшему человеку этого маленького городка. Конечно, все члены городского совета претендуют на звание лучшего человека. В конце концов, оказывается, что это была хитро продуманная шутка, которая должна была раскрыть истинный характер "лучших людей" города.
The Best Man
Červená ještěrka
František Sádek
Jindřich Plachta, Vlasta Fabianová
Grammar school teacher Bláha hurts himself in pursuit of a red lizard, and is lying unconscious in the lonely house of Santrucek family. The postman, who found Bláha's coat and hat in the water, announces to everyone in town that the professor has drowned. But, the venerable citizens are at that moment more interested in the theatre group with the beautiful guest actress Eva Gazdová. They demand a change of repertoire and manage to persuade the theatre manager to have the group play the musical comedy The Red Lizard instead of an established play.
Red Lizard
