Jaromil Jireš Movies

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...

In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...

Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.

Story about fate, and their fatal consequences.

This early short by Jaromil Jireš anticipates the formal and stylistic experimentation that would characterize VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS.

A film about filmmaking.

An intimate psychological film which elaborates the Faustian theme about the dispute between the body and the soul - a study on human identity. Two...

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

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...