Most Popular Ivo Špalj Trailers
Total trailers found: 122
The Canary Connection Trailer (1993)
09 September 1993
An interesting attempt at a postmodern crazy comedy with elements of parody. The plot turns on the search for the recipe of a liqueur made by the film’s financial backer.
Engi – Sound Designer Ivo Špalj Trailer (2023)
04 July 2023
A look at the legendary Czech sound designer and his profession. Editor and documentary filmmaker Adéla Špaljová has her father Ivo Špalj talk about his life, career, and working methods.
Učitel tance Trailer (1995)
26 January 1995
A special story about love, dance, and immortality takes place in the late 1940s. A young man, dance master Mayer, arrives at a pulmonary sanatorium.
Muka obraznosti Trailer (1990)
01 March 1990
The film tells the story of an enthusiastic young man who joins a textile factory in the late 1950s and assumes that a promising career awaits him - the protagonist is therefore constantly comparing himself to his favourite literary model, the equally ambitious Julian Sorel from Stendhal's fresco The Red and the Black.
Mystery of the Puzzle Trailer (1993)
13 May 1993
A group of teenagers are trying to solve a mystery of a puzzle created and left to them by the dead boy.
Amadeus Trailer (1984)
19 September 1984
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Swedish Package Holiday Trailer (1989)
05 July 1989
Three intertwined stories about Serbian truck driver who is involved into drug trafficking without knowing, Czech family who live by the road which makes them a lot of troubles since many cars crash into their house, and a bus full of Swedish grannies who go on a Trans-European package holiday.
Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval Trailer (1985)
01 February 1985
The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the expensive decorations of the Variety Theatre auditorium (built for the Circus Humberto series).
Alchemical Furnace Trailer (2020)
15 October 2020
Jan Svankmajer, at 85 years of age, is one of the most prominent artists of European cinema. His work has inspired and guided generations of directors, and represents a sharp and merciless exploration of human nature which is entirely unique.
The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope Trailer (1983)
28 July 1983
Animated short film based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "A Torture by Hope".
Sen noci... Trailer (1986)
01 September 1986
The film recording of the ballet performance of the State Theatre in Brno was expensively realized in a theatrically stylized set built in the Barrandov studios.
Don Gio Trailer (1992)
05 November 1992
The full-length film which, though based on Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, is more about the complexity of the time and the world.
Landscape of my Heart Trailer (2004)
01 November 2004
A visit to Prague by the most powerful man in the world coincides with Jan Němec's heart operation. He captures both events in a philosophical video diary, in doing so reporting on what is probably the most important day of his life.
Jiří Trnka: A Long Lost Friend Trailer (2019)
28 November 2019
A story of an extraordinary artist who has unintentionally signed a deal with a devil. Jiří Trnka was one of the biggest Czech artists of the 20th century and one of the founders of the puppet animation.
Toyen Trailer (2005)
03 November 2005
Jan Nemec, a leading filmmaker of the Czech New Wave, creates an original portrait of one of the most provocative artists of the 20th century: Toyen (Marie Cerminova).
Home Trailer (1991)
05 October 1991
In the young man's imagination, the image of a mysterious house - a mystical building that symbolizes the spiritual world of an unknown faith - persistently returns.
Pražákům, těm je hej Trailer (1991)
01 April 1991
The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr (Prague's selection) has just received the news thier 5-year ban has expired and they are alowed to perform once again.
Sekal Has to Die Trailer (1998)
03 September 1998
ComiBaran, a protestant blacksmith arrives in the little village of Lakotice to kill Sekal, a cruel Nazi collaborator.
Shakespeare 2000 Trailer (1988)
01 July 1988
A satiric film travesty of Shakespeare's dramas set in the year 2000. The protagonists are to convince the audience that human passions such as love, hatred, jealousy, etc.
The Vanished World of Gloves Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to a futurist junkyard where tin cans become animated police cars in a city of urban decay.
Castle of Otranto Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
An adaptation of the 1764 work of the same name, the first Gothic novel. In this mockumentary, the amateur archaeologist Dr.
Maryša Trailer (1972)
08 May 1972
Maryša, a peasant daughter, is forced by her greedy parents to marry a rich miller, a widower with three children.
Spring of Life Trailer (2000)
03 February 2000
The film, 'The Spring Of Life', brings to light a little-known operation of the Nazi SS, started just before the outbreak of World War II.
Words, Words, Words Trailer (1993)
01 June 1993
In a cafe, people talk, their words become expresively-shaped balloons. An older waiter tries to connect with a young woman who's reading.
The Ossuary Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor from York Trailer (1982)
01 October 1982
The picture, unlike the other film adaptations of the story, focuses much more on Crusoe’s life before and after his stay on the island.
Faust's House Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
A film story based on the old Prague legends. It tells about a poor student lured by wealth, which he prefers to knowledge.
Down to the Cellar Trailer (1983)
31 October 1983
A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.
The Fall of the House of Usher Trailer (1982)
01 June 1982
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 mysterious family curse.
Kolya Trailer (1996)
15 May 1996
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son.
Alice Trailer (1988)
03 August 1988
A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit.
Master Hanus Trailer (1977)
21 April 1977
One of the film stories based on the old Prague legends. This one is about the old master clock maker Hanus who construed the Prague Old Town astronomical clock.
Smetana Trailer (2024)
03 November 2024
Life of Czech composer Smetana, his search for love and artistic inspiration despite hearing loss, and quest for his muse Eliska.
Chronicle Of The Pied Piper Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Barta’s masterpiece.
Lady Poverty Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
A tragicomic story about Lady Poverty who, unmistakably and without any hesitation, catches one lazy fellow after another.
Svatohor Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
This animated puppet film based on Russian folk tales tells the story of the hero Svätohor and his battle with the dragon Goryn Gorynych.
A Ballad About Green Wood Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
Pieces of wood are captured by a crow and dance in celebration of spring in this animated short film.
The Spectre's Bride Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
A dead soldier comes for his fiancée from the grave.
Curriculum vitae Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
An artistic animated short showing the life in secondary school.
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia Trailer (1991)
13 February 1991
A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution).
Faust Trailer (1994)
10 September 1994
A very free adaptation of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus", Goethe's "Faust" and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil.
The King and the Goblin Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
Wealthy but alone, a king spends his days obsessively polishing shiny objects throughout his opulent castle.
Narco Blues Trailer (2016)
10 November 2016
On summer vacation a young teenager finds himself hanging out alone on the streets of his neighbourhood, all his friends having gone to the country with their parents.
The Pied Piper Trailer (1986)
29 July 1986
A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed.
Queen of the Lake Trailer (1998)
26 February 1998
Prince Victor looks in vain for a swan which was wounded by one of his servants. Instead he discovers a beautiful girl with golden hair who has an arrow in her shoulder.
Little Otik Trailer (2001)
25 January 2001
When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child.
Mean Barbara Trailer (1989)
01 July 1989
When the village school master discovers the body of a mean-spirited, miserly old woman, with whom he has had a disagreement, he decides to dispose of the body himself without alerting anyone else to it, but when the body is discovered by another villager the same cycle begins again, with the body eventually passing through the hands of half of the village.
Conspirators of Pleasure Trailer (1996)
17 October 1996
Six Prague residents pursue bizarre rituals. Mr. Peony builds a chicken costume to wear while enacting homicidal fantasies toward neighbor Mrs.
Transport R Trailer (2015)
17 May 2015
A poetic, but chilling story of seven puppets in train car prior to its journey to a concentration camp.
