Ondřej Vetchý

Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… ...

Adolescence is always a difficult time; it is doubly so for Gábina. For one thing, she is growing up in the normalization years of the 1970s, and ...

Slovakia, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The family of the young Jewish Martin Friedmann gathers to celebrate his bar mitzvah and ...

Young Ondra has asthma and so his parents throw away his favourite toy: a musty old stuffed bear named Kooky. That night Ondra dreams that Kooky ...

Woodcutter Ondra, who for his bold nature is called Nebojsa. He goes into the world to learn fear. During his journey, on which he is accompanied ...

Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called “politically unreliable” – the Technical auxiliary ...

In 1930s Ukraine, the desecration of a sacred bath disrupts the sex lives of Jewish villagers.

An evil witch is trying to steal a magic purse possessed by the local ruler. Thanks to Princess Blanka’s love, Prince Petr wins out over ...

Capturing the dark humor of Czech author Michal Viewegh’s chronicle of life after the Velvet Revolution, this black comedy chronicles three ...

A fairy tale based on motifs taken from Josephine tales. Like Josef II, the fictitious emperor Maxmilián often disappears from the castle in ...

Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prauge in the early years of World War 2 and the eventual destruction of his ...

A bittersweet comedy starring the great Vlastimil Brodský as Fanda, an old man who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated wife ...

Arnost Lustig was one of the world’s most renowned literary authors of our times. Lustig’s novel ‘A girl from Antwerp’ ...

Vera has lived a wonderful life with Jindrich, and she is fully determined to fulfill his last wish – running a marathon. The emancipated ...

The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and ...

Godfather’s story is the story of the greatest of Czech post-revolutionary ‘entrepreneurs’. His activities often crossed the ...