Ján Kadár

The Shop on Main Street

Elmar Klos, Ján Kadár

Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner

In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the town's corrupt hierarchy, Tono wrestles with greed and guilt as he and Rozalie gradually befriend each other. When the authorities order all Jews in town to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral dilemma unlike any he's known before.

CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

Shivendra Singh Dungarpur

Jiří Menzel, Antonín Máša

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.

Death Is Called Engelchen

Elmar Klos, Ján Kadár

Jan Kačer, Eva Poláková

Pavel is a Czech partisan fighter in the waning days of the war. Just as peace is declared, Pavel is shot in the spine and sent to the hospital emergency ward. As he fades in and out of consciousness, he recalls the events that led to his participation in the underground. Holding German occupation commander Engelchen responsible for all the horrors and deprivations heaped upon his comrades, Pavel is kept alive by the possibility of recovering and exacting vengeance upon the Nazi officer - no matter how long it takes.

Tři přání

Elmar Klos, Ján Kadár

Rade Marković, Tatjana Beljakova

Tam na konečné

Elmar Klos, Ján Kadár

Eva Očenášová, Vladimír Ráž

Several bittersweet stories set in a Prague apartment building.

Obžalovaný

Elmar Klos, Ján Kadár

Vlado Müller, Miroslav Macháček

Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.

The Other Side of Hell

Ján Kadár

Alan Arkin, Richard Riehle

A disturbed, but highly intelligent man is sent to a criminally insane hospital to serve time and rehabilitate. But when he arrives, he discovers it's in fact a closed world where brutality is an everyday occurrence.

Katka

Ján Kadár

Božena Obrová, Július Pántik

Strong-willed peasant girl Katka disobeys her father and heads to the city to work in a factory, where no one knows quite what to make of her.

Touha zvaná Anada

Ján Kadár

Rade Marković, Milena Dravić

A fisherman saves Anada, a woman adrift, from drowning. He takes her to his home, and protects her. Eventually, she occupies a larger place than was to be expected. He commits adultery with her, but his own wife seems to be in love with the strange young woman.

Lies My Father Told Me

Ján Kadár

Yossi Yadin, Len Birman

A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.

The Blue Hotel

Ján Kadár

David Warner, Rex Everhart

Nebraska in the 1880's: bleak, lonely, and far from what you'd expect The Wild West to be. But for a naive Swedish immigrant, the frontier parlor of THE BLUE HOTEL represents the quintessential western fantasy. No one can convince The Swede that his dime-store notions about The West are foolish. He sees murderous intentions all around him and in his terror he turns everybody against him. Inevitably, the Swede attracts tragedy. However, who is responsible? The negative Swede? Or the cliquish hotel guests? Jan Kadar directs this timely story of how society punishes outsiders for being different.

The Angel Levine

Ján Kadár

Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte

Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?

Freedom Road

Ján Kadár

Muhammad Ali, Kris Kristofferson

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.

Hudba z Marsu

Elmar Klos, Ján Kadár

Jaroslav Marvan, Oldřich Nový

Инициативный председатель месткома Ржехак из мебельного кооператива MARS безрассудно обещает перед заместителем министра, что он позаботится о том, чтобы в компании сформировался музыкальный коллектив из тридцати человек. Его хвастовство воспринимается всерьёз и поэтому коллектив фабрики получат небольшой подарок — музыкальные инструменты для тридцати музыкантов. Чтобы не попасть впросак перед министром сотрудники Марса начинают репетировать, сначала под руководством Хонзы Томана, затем под управлением профессионального композитора Караса, которого привлекла сотрудница Хана. Местом учёбы музыкантов был избран небольшой курортный городок. Когда там появился этот шумный, нестройный оркестр, публика приняла его по ошибке за прославленный джаз-бэнд, прибытие которого ожидали в городке. Это недоразумение вызвало много забавных приключений…

Únos

Elmar Klos, Ján Kadár

Jiří Dohnal, Ladislav Pešek

Based on a true story