Jaromil Jireš Movies

Film makes the creative process visible by letting its narrative flow in the mind of a foreign director who is researching a film about Franz Kafka...

Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life.

Story about fate, and their fatal consequences.

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

Marta (Lucie Patikova) was blinded in an accident brought on by her careless and indulgent younger sister. Now in a school for the blind, Marta keeps...

The peculiar Fanoš Mikulecký is the originator of many well-known songs from Podluží, generally considered folk songs. Next...

It is the depths of winter and in the middle of a desolate landscape on a snowy slope stands a log cabin, inhabited by an old man. The man puts his...

A film about filmmaking.

In a series of juxtaposed images and sounds, Jaromil Jireš comments on the tragic premature death of thousands as well as their posterity due...

Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and...

A documentary about the composer who made Czech music famous all over the world.

In a mountain village in eastern Moravia, J. D., a well-behaved and hard-working young man, his parents' only hope, mysteriously disappeared from...

A television reporter visits the clerk, Mr Drobny, who answers dating ads and makes appointments with many women.