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Jiří Menzel (Czech: [ˈjɪr̝iː ˈmɛntsl̩] was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura.
Menzel, a member of the Czech New Wave, became internationally famous in 1967, when his first feature film, Closely Watched Trains, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His controversial film Larks on a String was filmed in 1969, but was initially banned by the Czechoslovakian government. It was finally released in 1990 after the fall of the Communist regime. The film won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.
Menzel was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film again in 1986 with his dark comedy My Sweet Little Village. In 1987, he was a member of the jury at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1989 he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1995 he was a member of the jury at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. He would be conferred with IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2013.
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02 September 1966
The series of children's films about Detective Martin, who intervenes in cases involving children, begins with this film.
18 August 1972
The King of Malabunt has won another war, after decorating himself and his three wooden marshals, he dismisses his army with a low wages.
26 January 1965
A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments.
28 September 1966
Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.
22 December 1967
A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend.
01 September 1990
A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.
26 September 2013
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.
15 September 2016
The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.
16 February 2012
Two young technicians, Filos and Kája, come to a small village that is a bit cut off from the rest of the world in order to find the best place to install a new station for the reception of a cell phone signal.
01 February 1995
Prague 1994, hotbed of international profiteers. Here you can still find buyers for discarded everyday objects, here you can still buy cheap houses - provided you can find a Czech straw man.
16 November 1981
How to marry off two daughters and a maid, especially when the father has no idea that it's high time? Father Ubaldo has worries; his two daughters are constantly complaining about their health.
01 June 1990
A parable for the end of totalitarianism.
Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three generations (1948, 1968, 1988) are forced to confront their ideals and places in society through the events of one strange night.
25 February 1964
Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.
10 April 1986
A crime comedy directed by Jirí Menzel, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
01 January 1985
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?
24 March 1967
A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored.
01 April 1993
A film about the uncertainties faced by a man in post-Communist Slovakia, his relationship with a teenage son and English teacher girlfriend who's soon to return home to England.
23 February 1968
In 1947 Prague, Holocaust survivor Dita lives in a hostel for orphans, acting as a protective mentor to a younger girl while failing to fix her own shattered life.
20 December 1963
In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint.
11 September 2020
A recording of the final performance of the famous production of G. Feydeau's comedy, directed by Jiří Menzel, which was successfully performed by the Vinohrady Theater for twenty years.
30 December 1966
Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
01 April 1966
Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly, or watched them cowardly and in silence.
01 January 1990
A recording of the legendary production “Audience“ from the Prague Drama Club with Josef Abrhám and Pavel Landovský.
30 September 2004
This film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák.
24 May 1968
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing.
03 September 2002
Poetic, affectionate, lyrical, and elegy for actor Rudolf Hrusinsky composed of a wordless montage of slowed film footage spanning Hrusinsky’s entire career that embodies the human experience: toil, rest, education, romantic love, rejection, desire, aging, frailty.
11 January 1983
The main character of the story which takes place in the twenties in Budapest is the poet Dr. Rácz György, who returns after ten years of absence.
18 November 1966
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity.
21 October 1999
Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power.
14 March 1969
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
08 August 1991
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo.
01 August 1985
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community.
23 September 1966
The second installment of children's stories investigator Dr. Martin. The film has two stories:
06 February 1981
Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town.
10 February 1993
An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself.
28 May 1982
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver.
01 July 1983
Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.
01 January 1979
Stephen, living in a troubled family, breaks into a grocery store and wreaks vandalism. He is sent to a reform school.
20 October 1994
Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft.
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.
20 December 1968
The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this could compromise the minister, who is an admirer of the singer Clara.
28 March 2011
An idiosyncratic reflection on the film Larks on a String and its history, shot by it's director Jiri Menzel.
06 June 1981
The general practitioner Balla and his wife abandoning her higher education begin their common life in the small mountain village in the hope of quick enrichment and return to the capital.
27 January 1987
A comedy about happiness, Indian magic and adultery. One day Mr and Mrs Sysel happen to solve the problem of lacking enough room in their tiny flat.
01 January 1984
An episodic film about the inhabitants of Kersko, their hardships and their joys, most prominently hunting.
10 September 1976
The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed.
14 February 1980
A Roma laborer living in a shantytown strives to organize a traditional, dignified funeral for his wife following her sudden death.
11 September 1981
The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to fool the boss and earned a death sentence.
06 September 2007
Jirka, Roman, and Ivan have been friends since school. Today they are about 35 and, although they went into different fields, their friendship has lasted.
20 September 2002
Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth.
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.
11 January 2007
Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always discreet and use what he learns to his own advantage; but the turbulent tides of history will continually stand in his way.
