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Jiří Menzel (Czech: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈmɛntsl̩] was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura.
Menzel, a member of the Czech New Wave, became internationally famous in 1967, when his first feature film, Closely Watched Trains, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His controversial film Larks on a String was filmed in 1969, but was initially banned by the Czechoslovakian government. It was finally released in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime. The film won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.
Menzel was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film again in 1986 with his dark comedy My Sweet Little Village. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989 he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1995 he was a member of the jury at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. He would be conferred with IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2013.
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26 January 1965
A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments.
10 March 1967
Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide.
11 January 2007
Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always discreet and use what he learns to his own advantage; but the turbulent tides of history will continually stand in his way.
02 August 1991
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo.
20 October 1994
Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft.
01 January 1984
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).
24 March 1967
A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored.
28 May 1982
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver.
21 July 2009
Operation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968.
01 August 1985
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community.
03 September 2002
Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth.
18 November 1966
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity.
10 September 1976
The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed.
01 April 1966
Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly, or watched them cowardly and in silence.
30 September 2004
This film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák.
15 January 1965
A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.
24 March 1972
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 wealthy farmer.
18 February 1966
Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky.
24 September 1970
The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages.
01 March 2018
80-year-old Ali Ungar comes across a book by a former SS officer describing his wartime activities in Slovakia.
23 February 1968
A beautiful, underachieving, 18-year-old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy, and takes a young girl under her wing.
02 February 1995
A fairy tale of three brothers who try to save a princess kidnapped by an evil wizard.
20 December 1968
A black comedy set in a Prague cabaret.
06 February 1981
Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town.
07 January 1966
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors.
26 September 2013
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.
16 September 2018
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.
01 October 1991
Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay.
01 April 1993
A film about the uncertainties faced by a man in post-Communist Slovakia, his relationship with a teenage son and English teacher girlfriend who's soon to return home to England.
01 July 1983
Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.
25 February 1964
Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.
16 September 1977
A musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and physics teacher employing innovative teaching methods.
03 September 2002
Poetic, affectionate, lyrical, and elegy for actor Rudolf Hrusinsky composed of a wordless montage of slowed film footage spanning Hrusinsky’s entire career that embodies the human experience: toil, rest, education, romantic love, rejection, desire, aging, frailty.
25 January 1980
A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.
11 September 1981
The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to fool the boss and earned a death sentence.
15 September 2016
The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.
19 December 2002
Ivan, in his early forties, returns, after many years of absence to his native town - a typical Middle - European small town in Northern of Croatia.
30 December 1966
Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
11 January 1983
The main character of the story which takes place in the twenties in Budapest is the poet Dr. Rácz György, who returns after ten years of absence.
06 April 1979
Balog Mihály, the Gypsy man from Szabolcs works in Budapest. That is where he is notified that his young wife died.
21 October 1999
Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power.
16 February 2012
Two young technicians, Filos and Kája, come to a small village that is a bit cut off from the rest of the world in order to find the best place to install a new station for the reception of a cell phone signal.
14 March 1969
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
03 August 1979
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie to his care.
18 August 1972
The King of Malabunt has won another war, after decorating himself and his three wooden marshals, he dismisses his army with a low wages.
10 April 1986
A crime comedy directed by Jirí Menzel, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
23 September 1966
The second installment of children's stories investigator Dr. Martin. The film has two stories:
01 January 1990
A theater play by Václav Havel.
01 December 1983
Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different for the mother of eighteen-year-old Frantisek, who has just graduated from high school without much glory and is about to start his first job.
01 January 1963
On a sunny afternoon an old man speaks to a laundress about his love for Provence, then a black flag is unfurled outside the town monument: news has arrived over the radio that the famous composer Foerster, born in the town, has just died.
