Jaromír Šofr

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Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne
4.8

Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne

Oct 01, 1984

Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne
1984 99 min 9 vues
A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.
Comedy
Vlčí bouda
7

Vlčí bouda

Feb 01, 1987

Vlčí bouda
1987 95 min 21 vues
Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselves preyed upon and set against one another by their three mysterious instructors.
Science Fiction
Kinoautomat: Člověk a jeho dům
7.3

Kinoautomat: Člověk a jeho dům

Jan 14, 1971

Kinoautomat: Člověk a jeho dům
1971 63 min 3 vues
Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. At nine points during the film the action stops, and a moderator appears on stage to ask the audience to choose between two scenes; following an audience vote, the chosen scene is played.
Comedy
Le Bedeau
6.1

Le Bedeau

Jan 10, 1969

Le Bedeau
1969 98 min 7 vues
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 pastor, and tries to embarrass him in various ways, including being caught with the local girl, Majka.
Comedy
Causa Králík
5.3

Causa Králík

Feb 26, 1980

Causa Králík
1980 85 min 3 vues
In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes to practice in the countryside. His series of odd court cases reveals more about the human condition than about law. In one of these litigations a wayward nephew has cheated his elderly aunt out of her savings. In court, the nephew insists the money was a gift, but his aunt explains she only gave him the money as a loan. Although the lawyer technically wins the case, everything of value seems lost in the meantime. His services are paid for in rabbits because the aunt has no currency, and in the end, the nephew cons his aunt into parting with her savings anyway. Other cases expose similar types of petty corruption.
Comedy
Dny zrady
5

Dny zrady

Apr 27, 1973

Dny zrady
1973 227 min 3 vues
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
History
Kdo hledá zlaté dno
5

Kdo hledá zlaté dno

Dec 20, 1974

Kdo hledá zlaté dno
1974 98 min 4 vues
When he returns to Prague from a stint in the Army, Lada does not seem to fit in anywhere, and he cannot get the hang of the system of deliberately underperforming on the job. His girlfriend tries to keep him in the city with a variety of stratagems, but he eventually takes a job as a truck driver on a dam-building project. He uses the truck to visit his girl on weekends. Ingenuous, he is unaware that the truck is being used for black-market smuggling, and that his girlfriend two-times on him when he cannot arrange to leave on time for his weekend.
Drama
TGM Osvoboditel
10

TGM Osvoboditel

Mar 07, 1990

TGM Osvoboditel
1990 63 min 1 vues
The life of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first elected President of Czechoslovakia following the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918.
Documentary
Strop
5.1

Strop

Mar 15, 1962

Strop
1962 42 min 7 vues
Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.
Drama
Velká neznámá
3

Velká neznámá

Oct 23, 1970

Velká neznámá
1970 85 min 1 vues
Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short stories.
Horror
Katapult
2

Katapult

Aug 01, 1984

Katapult
1984 87 min 1 vues
Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life.
Comedy
Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliště
7

Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliště

Dec 25, 1981

Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliště
1981 96 min 11 vues
An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into which he is supposed to be moving with his daughter's family. The old granddad from the countryside likes chatting, nothing escapes his eyes and he wants to give everyone a helping hand.
Comedy
Žebrácká opera
6

Žebrácká opera

Oct 01, 1991

Žebrácká opera
1991 94 min 2 vues
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. Composers and writers have penned variations on it ever since. The most famous of these was A Threepenny Opera by Bertholt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Some things these compositions share in common is their setting among the poor and criminal classes, and the roguish character Macheath. This production is based on an adaptation of Gay's original by Vaclav Havel the freedom-fighter, writer and philosopher who became the first (and only) president of the united post-communist country of Czechoslovakia, and it retains many traces of its theatrical origins. Film reviewers were not too tolerant of what they called "slavish adherence" to the noted Czech writer's stage production, but theater, philosophy and history buffs may feel otherwise.
Comedy
Útěky domů
6

Útěky domů

Oct 17, 1980

Útěky domů
1980 84 min 1 vues
A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.
Drama
Pytel blech
6

Pytel blech

Mar 15, 1963

Pytel blech
1963 43 min 15 vues
A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.
Drama
Donšajni
5

Donšajni

Sep 26, 2013

Donšajni
2013 102 min 6 vues
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 tale of love and disappointment, about music and passionate love-making and about people that live their lives in spite of the opera.
Comedy
Báječní muži s klikou
6.4

Báječní muži s klikou

Aug 03, 1979

Báječní muži s klikou
1979 85 min 11 vues
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. In Prague they all take up their lodgings at the house At Blue Fish in which they intend to arrange the programs. The firm is owned by widow Evzenie with whom Pasparte shares flat and bed. Evzenie is jealous of Aloisie therefore Pasparte sends Aloisie as a housewife to the single man Jakub Kolenatý who earns his living by photographing and wants to record the revived pictures of Prague. Pasparte wants to found in Prague the first permanent Czech movie theatre in which there would be projected also the original Czech films.
Comedy
Domy z panelů
5.5

Domy z panelů

Jan 01, 1960

Domy z panelů
1960 6 min 2 vues
A student work by Jiří Menzel, filmed during his second year at the FAMU film school. Views of old Prague and its tenement buildings, symbolizing the obsolete past, alternate with shots of construction sites for new prefabricated apartment buildings. In spite of certain unavoidable propagandistic overtones added by the director, it is notable as the beginning of his search for a “dramaturgy of colors.”
Documentary
Řetěz
2

Řetěz

Nov 20, 1981

Řetěz
1981 86 min 1 vues
Carefree young nurse Marta learns upon her husband's death that he was involved in all manner of criminal activity, which puts her life in danger.
Thriller
Albert
7

Albert

Jan 01, 1985

Albert
1985 69 min 3 vues
Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty. Now he is playing time from time to rich people. Then Albert meets count Delesov, who tries to change Albert's life. Two different characters, two ways of life confront... Will Albert change? Should he?
Drama
Vidět filmem
4.9

Vidět filmem

Feb 15, 1994

Vidět filmem
1994 min 4 vues
After rapidly ascending the ranks of the Socialist Party, Benito Mussolini created a Fascist state in 1920s Italy through his use of propaganda and diplomacy and led his people in a bloody war that would ultimately result in his downfall.
Drama