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- It narrates the life of the writer Franz Kafka, from his birth to his death.
- Biopic of Bozena Nemcová, a famous Czech 19th century writer and feminist, focused on her complicated on-off relationship with her husband Josef Nemec.
- 'Havel' covers the Czech president's transformation from playwright to politician
- A film about the last years of Karel Capek's life. Although the film is conceived as a family drama in which human relationships play an important role, its overall message is dominated by the social dimension. It can also be called 'Capek Against Destruction' - against the rising fascism in Central Europe, against the threat to fragile democratic freedoms. The film is a kind of mosaic of events and relationships that influenced Karel Capek and that come back to him in feverish dreams and memories during his illness.
- On 26 September 1928, Karel Capek and President T.G. Masaryk meet in the gardens of Topolcianky castle to decide about the fate of their joint literary work. Their fiction film dialogue is based on quotes from a future book and their mutual correspondence, considerably freeing the original format of literary conversation from binding conventions. Capek and Masaryk reproach and offend each other, but they also ask key personal questions and questions about the social functions of a writer and politician respectively. "It's a film about two extraordinary men; it's about the fact that emotions can be sometimes more powerful than ideas even in such exceptional people.
- A twisted gay romance set in the 19th Century picturesque Bohemia telling a tabooed true story of birth of one of the nation's most influential writers, starring Julius Feldmeier (Tore tanzt). Suspense, laughter, violence, hope, heart, nudity, sex and happy ending. Mostly happy ending.
- The desire to achieve the greatest physical strength and moments of complete lack of mental strength define the life of film critic Kamil Fila during the filming of this atypical time-lapse documentary. The necessary moment of observation is broken in a longer period of time by the protagonist's attempts to bring his life into harmony with the people closest to him, which, nevertheless, regularly lead to failure. The result is a portrait of an intellectual at his wits' end, a man who struggles with the limits of rationalisation. It is precisely the openness with which Fila lets us peer into the depths of his private life that has a therapeutic effect not only for him but also for the viewer.
- The story takes us to Litomysl in 1836. The local bourgeoisie, who, as a proof of good manners and better origins, does not forget to include some German words in their conversation, slanders Mrs. Rettig. Rettig not only fights for the written Czech language, she is a patriot, but attracts young girls and students to her and lends them Czech books. She simply upsets 'the good old order'. The next sensation in the town is the announcement of a planned wedding. Miss Lenka is to marry old Dr. Plavec. When Mrs. Rettig hears about it, she invites both fiancés to her house, one by one. Indeed, the hunter Valenta, a former admirer of Lenka's who has been abroad with his master for a long time, asks her to help him win Lenka back.
- Pavel Landovský wrote the play The Hourly Hotelier at the end of the 1960's and, under the direction of Evald Schorm in the Cinoherní Klub Theater, the production gained the status of legendary. And now, more than forty years later, director Jan Kacer decides to study this play again. But he is not longing for sold-out halls and the accolades of critics, but he wants to use it to turn over a new leaf for Pavel Landovský, a legend of the Czech theatre, who is living a forlorn life in a cottage outside of Prague, plagued by health problems and a skepticism of life that he hides behind vulgar aggression. He is also given a helping hand by Josef Abrhám, Libuse Safránková and Vladimír Pucholt, who flies to Europe at his own expense and returns to his original profession after 45 years. But conflicts and health troubles escalate and it is not at all certain if this crazy act of good intentions will reach a happy end, however small.