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Jaromil Jireš (December 10, 1935 – October 24, 2001) was a director associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement. His 1963 film The Cry was entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. It is often described as the first film of the Czechoslovak New Wave, a movement known for its dark humor, use of non-professional actors, and "art-cinema realism".
Total trailers found: 41
28 February 1969
In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend.
28 September 1966
Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.
04 June 1982
The peculiar Fanoš Mikulecký is the originator of many well-known songs from Podluží, generally considered folk songs.
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.
01 January 1990
A documentary about the composer who made Czech music famous all over the world.
26 February 1980
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.
14 February 1964
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.
04 October 1963
Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchman, Hatred and Traces.
01 August 1984
Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life.
01 March 1983
Marta (Lucie Patikova) was blinded in an accident brought on by her careless and indulgent younger sister.
01 July 1990
A gloomy tale about a king whose pride robbed him of love, friends and power. A cruel curse is at the beginning of the story of this fairy tale based on an old Irish legend.
01 January 1974
Wenceslas II, who already has adult children Eliška and Václav, refuses to marry the young Alžběta Rejčka.
01 October 1961
This early short by Jaromil Jireš anticipates the formal and stylistic experimentation that would characterize VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS.
16 October 1970
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings.
01 December 1987
The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his head and his strong character, which could overcome the adversities of fate.
14 February 1964
In a series of juxtaposed images and sounds, Jaromil Jireš comments on the tragic premature death of thousands as well as their posterity due to the atomic bomb.
07 January 1966
A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded discussions, and death; two elderly men create false biographies; insurance agents visit an eccentric painter/goat farmer and his mother; guests at a wedding reception remain oblivious to outlying misery; and a working-class boy romances a Roma girl.
01 January 1966
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.
26 May 1972
This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries.
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.
08 April 1993
A lyrical story from the beginning of 20th century, with the atmosphere of a small-town environment, distinctive characters, and a subtle analysis of human nature.
27 November 1991
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 in Prague.
13 July 1979
Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad Labem together with her young assistant Nada (Zlata Adamovská).
21 January 1977
The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them.
17 October 1980
A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.
18 March 1999
An intimate psychological film which elaborates the Faustian theme about the dispute between the body and the soul - a study on human identity.
25 November 1977
A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.
17 May 1974
Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and finalizing construction of subway and their lives crossed at certain points of this construction.
22 October 1989
An interesting look at love destroyed by the demon of drugs, which uses opera singing instead of spoken word.
01 January 1968
A television reporter visits the clerk, Mr Drobny, who answers dating ads and makes appointments with many women.
01 January 1959
In this six-minute short, a man’s attempt to burgle a home is interrupted by a child.
01 October 1985
The dramatic story of Karel Svozil, an aging professor of art history, tells of love and old age, illness, death and the worries of everyday life with a humorous touch.
01 January 1979
In a mountain village in eastern Moravia, J. D., a well-behaved and hard-working young man, his parents' only hope, mysteriously disappeared from home some time ago.
01 January 1973
A meeting between the famous post-war safecracker Arnošt Šimerda and "his" inspector František Nový, who put him behind bars 25 years ago.
