Jiří Menzel Movies

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

A film impression about Bohumil Hrabal - an encounter with the man and his literary work. The film was shot in places well known and close to the...

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...

Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.

A beautiful, underachieving, 18-year-old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy, and takes a young girl under her wing.

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,...

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 worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...

An idiosyncratic reflection on the film Larks on a String and its history, shot by it's director Jiri Menzel.

Stephen, living in a troubled family, breaks into a grocery store and wreaks vandalism. He is sent to a reform school. Later he works in a cleaning...

The general practitioner Balla and his wife abandoning her higher education begin their common life in the small mountain village in the hope of...