Josef Elsner

Witchhammer

Otakar Vávra

Vladimír Šmeral, Elo Romančík

In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.

The Nun's Night

Karel Kachyňa

Jana Brejchová, Mnislav Hofmann

A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the implementation of collectivized agriculture and the mass closure of monasteries and convents.

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

Malý partyzán

Pavel Blumenfeld

Vladimír Janura, Alena Kautská

Únos

Elmar Klos, Ján Kadár

Jiří Dohnal, Ladislav Pešek

Based on a true story