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Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Czech
Description
This film explores a young woman’s romantic dilemma: torn between a primal connection and the need to provide for her children, she loves two men. Set in Prague, BEAUTY IN TROUBLE is full of unexpected twists, humor and amazing performances culminating in a surprising ending. Winner of the Krzysztof Kieslowski Award at the **Denver International Film Festival**. Winner of Best International Film at the **Santa Barbara International Film Festival**....
2) Faust
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Czech
Description
A very free adaptation of Marlowe’s ‘Doctor Faustus’, Goethe’s ‘FAUST’ and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. Svankmajer’s FAUST is a nondescript man who, after being lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, finds himself immersed in an indescribably weird version of the play, blending live actors, clay animation and giant puppets.
3) Charlatan
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (118 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Czech
Description
The Oscar entry for the Czech Republic. Few true stories tread the thin line between good and evil as precariously as that of Jan Mikolášek, a 20th century Czech herbal healer whose great success masked the grimmest of secrets. Mikolášek won fame and fortune treating celebrities of the interwar, Nazi, and Communist eras with his uncanny knack for “urinary diagnosis”. But his passion for healing welled up from the same source as a lust for...
4) Winter Flies
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Czech
Description
Police interrogate 14-year-old Mára at the station after he is caught behind the wheel far across country from where he lives. He and somewhat eccentric Heduš had set out for the frozen landscape down south to seek adventure, but the mischievous breeziness with which Mára gives his story, and his concealment of the details of the trip, gradually strip his statement of credibility…. With uncommon directorial playfulness, Olmo Omerzu leads his...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Czech
Description
When two Jews finally manage to escape the Auschwitz concentration camp, they compile a detailed report about the systematic genocide at the camp. However, with Nazi propaganda and international liaisons still in place, their account seems to be too harrowing to believe.
6) Protektor
Series
Film Movement volume 9 film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Emil is a Prague radio reporter in 1938. His wife Hana's newest film has just catapulted her into fame. As the Nazis come to power, Hana's Jewish heritage precipitates her fall from stardom. To protect her, Emil collaborates with the new Nazi-controlled radio station. As Emil starts to enjoy this new respect, his loyalty to his wife begins to falter. The assassination of the Third Reich Deputy Protector, and a chance encounter brings their marriage...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (67 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
With this simultaneously harrowing and lyrical debut feature, Jan Nemec established himself as the most uncompromising visionary among the radical filmmakers who made up the Czechoslovak New Wave. Adapted from a novel by Arno(t Lustig, closely tracks two boys who escape from a concentration-camp transport and flee into the surrounding woods, a hostile terrain where the brute realities of survival coexist with dreams, memories, and fragments of visual...
8) Daisies
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
If the entire world is bad, why shouldn2t we be? Adopting this insolent attitude as their guiding philosophy, a pair of hedonistic young women, both named Marie, embark on a gleefully debauched odyssey of gluttony, giddy destruction, and antipatriarchal resistance, in which nothing is safe from their nihilistic pursuit of pleasure. But what happens when the fun is over?
9) The cremator
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Karl Kopfrkingl works at a stately crematorium in Prague. Obsessed with his duties, he believes he is liberating the souls of the departed. With Nazi forces gathering at the Czech border, Karl descends into a mania that allows him to wholly enact his disturbed beliefs.
10) Winter flies
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Police interrogate fourteen-year-old Mára at the station after he is caught behind the wheel far across country from where he lives. He and somewhat eccentric Heduš had set out for the frozen landscape down south to seek adventure, but the mischievous breeziness with which Mára gives his story, and his concealment of the details of the trip, gradually strip his statement of credibility.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Includes: Invention For Destruction.
Czechoslovak filmmaker Karel Zeman devoted his career to transporting viewers to realms beyond their wildest imagining. The deft, breathtaking combinations of live-action and animation techniques that he pioneered in the postwar years earned him comparisons to legends such as Georges Méliès. Presented here are three of Zeman's most enchanting fantasies: Journey To The Beginning Of Time; Invention For Destruction;...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Czechoslovak filmmaker Karel Zeman devoted his career to transporting viewers to realms beyond their wildest imagining. The deft, breathtaking combinations of live-action and animation techniques that he pioneered in the postwar years earned him comparisons to legends such as Georges Méliès. Presented here are three of Zeman?s most enchanting fantasies: Journey To The Beginning Of Time; Invention For Destruction; and The Fabulous Baron Munchausen....
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Includes: Journey to the Beginning of Time.
Czechoslovak filmmaker Karel Zeman devoted his career to transporting viewers to realms beyond their wildest imagining. The deft, breathtaking combinations of live-action and animation techniques that he pioneered in the postwar years earned him comparisons to legends such as Georges Méliès. Presented here are three of Zeman's most enchanting fantasies: Journey To The Beginning Of Time; Invention For...
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