Zdeněk Srstka
1935 - 2019
Slavnosti sněženek
Jiří Menzel
Rudolf Hrušínský, Jaromír Hanzlík
This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants of Kersko (Kersko is a small woody area full of cottages and roods). These people are both simple and sensitive, they have their own pleasures (e.g. Leli is a collector of cheap, but inutile things) and the greatest delight of all of them is a hunting. Crude poetics of amateur hunting is screened by dreamy pictures of this area. Menzel mixes sentimental lyricism and rough (but not vulgar!) humor and the outcome is the never-ending landscape of continuous life in the proximate nearness of nature. The performances of actors are brilliant. Both Rudolf Hrusinsky as a Franz and Jaromír Hanzlik as a Leli have nonrecurring charm bottomed on a pain and inebriation. Only the music is not perfect: Jiri Sust usually assembled his film music from his older works and in this movie there is many quotations.
The Snowdrop Festival
Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet
Oldřich Lipský
Michal Dočolomanský, Rudolf Hrušínský
When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy, the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp...
Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling
Oldřich Lipský
Lubomír Lipský, Jiřina Bohdalová
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply increases, Camel is mistakenly regarded as a mass murderer and cunningly uses his horrifying reputation to get the respect and heart of his beloved Sabrina, a journalist from a local newspaper. But this game turns out to be risky and in the end, both gangs don't hesitate to seize the check at all costs, including an improvised operation
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling
Cukrová bouda
Karel Kachyňa
Jana Švandová, Michal Dlouhý
In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana Svandová) and her two young sons Martin and Ondra move to her deceased husband's native village at the foot of the Kralický Snezník mountains. Life in the borderlands is far from easy for the lonely woman. The village is almost deserted, food supplies are delayed; the Werwolf (Nazi guerrilla squads) are hiding in the mountains, and shooting is heard from time to time. The elder son Ondra (Michal Dlouhý) is helping out his mother and at the same time absorbing intense new experiences. He meets an old Czech resident Skurek (Lubomír Kostelka), German women working in the forest, soldiers from the engineering units removing the mines, and a young first lieutenant. At night he dreams about his dead father whom he loved very much. This is why he runs away from home when he finds out that the lieutenant is courting his mother.
Sugar House
Den sedmý – osmá noc
Evald Schorm
Jan Libíček, Josef Bek
An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the stationmaster. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes hold and everyone’s worst instincts are released. Interrogations, the abolition of rights and the search for scapegoats ultimately lead to murder
The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night
Na kolejích čeká vrah
Josef Mach
Jiří Sovák, Radoslav Brzobohatý
An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a village girl is waiting at the railway crossing and spots two men removing some packages from the track. The scene is immediately followed by the report of a gun and the unwanted witness is shot dead. Soon afterwards, on the 201st kilometer, the train explodes. Only one of the escorts Lenk (Radoslav Brzobohatý) survives the explosion, taken to hospital with serious injuries. Criminologist Major Kalas (Jirí Sovák) and the very young Second Lieutenant Karlícek (Jaromír Hanzlík) patiently gather facts, leads and testimonies.
A Killer on the Tracks
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Jaroslav Balík
Rudolf Hrušínský, Jana Štěpánková
Герой фильма Вольфганг фон Хоппе рано остался сиротой и вырос в джунглях среди диких зверей. Уже юношей он попадает в цивилизованный мир, богатый дом своего брата, который заинтересован в признании Вольфганга неполноценным человеком, чтобы окончательно овладеть его наследством. Вначале Вольфгангу, этому современному Тарзану, показалось, что в мире людей царит правда и справедливость. Постепенно он убеждается, что цивилизованный мир, в котором он оказался, ничем не отличается от мира джунглей. И Вольфганг уходит из жизни.
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