Jaromil Jireš Movies

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...

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....

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

A film about filmmaking.

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

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

Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and...

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

Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life.

In this six-minute short, a man’s attempt to burgle a home is interrupted by a child.

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...