Jiří Menzel Movies

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

A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments. Great mystery is immediately...

Stephen, living in a troubled family, breaks into a grocery store and wreaks vandalism. He is sent to a reform school. Later he works in a cleaning...

An opera troupe in a small town decides to perform Mozart's Don Giovanni. The view behind the scenes uncovers the world of opera without the glitter....

A beautiful, underachieving, 18-year-old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy, and takes a young girl under her wing.

A theater play by Václav Havel.

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...

Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a...

A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three...

A crime comedy directed by Jirí Menzel, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie...

The second installment of children's stories investigator Dr. Martin. The film has two stories:

TV miniseries "More than words explores the possibilities and ways of behavior in non-verbal communication, primarily movements, gestures and ways of...

The general practitioner Balla and his wife abandoning her higher education begin their common life in the small mountain village in the hope of...

"A man is immortal as long as he lives in the memory of others,” said well-known Czech writer Arnošt Lustig with a wry smile. In...

A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings,...