Jan Klusák Movies

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...

The television production captures the last decade of the life of the now world-renowned painter Karel Purkyně (1834 - 1868) and his struggle...

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the...

An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughter's cheek.

While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends...

A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the...

A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and death, set amidst complex hospital apparatus and the...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

The first short story "Naked in the Thorns" tells the story of a man whose clothes were taken away by a dog during his bath in the river. In the...

Bláža is a bland-looking student who is eager for her first love experience. Even though experienced men are interested in her, she...

The story of four men who were arrested in a random raid on a small-town hotel during the Nazi occupation and taken to a school classroom. They don't...

In this film Jaroslav Boček adapted his own story. Its excellent animation plays a significant role in all three comical performances of variety...

A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to...

A meeting between the famous post-war safecracker Arnošt Šimerda and "his" inspector František Nový, who put him behind...

Pacific Island - 1945. Five American soldiers were sent to reconnoiter the Japanese rear. Surrounded by unpredictable jungle and terrible heat, they...

Documentary short about the title composer, born in what was called "Czechoslovakia" when the film was made.

In 1976, the Czech New Wave philosopher and director Evald Schorm came to the Na zábradlí Theatre. He stayed there for twelve years,...

Documentary about the making of Vera Chytilová's film DAISIES

In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a...

An elderly couple is planning a big family gathering. The husband is thinking about what he can do to make his wife happy. While walking around town,...