Zdeněk Svěrák

A well-known writer now aged 75 is aware of his increasing age and the risk that his literary style will grow worn. His everyday existence is ...

Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He ...

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 ...

Jára Cimrman in the whirlwind of the past forty years, as discovered, recorded, and brought to life by the theater.

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

The original score was in a sorry state: the notes were carelessly marked, the lines were broken, and the paper was covered in smudges. I took ...

This film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák.

The fourteenth Cimrman play takes us to the heart of a continent almost untouched by civilization. Czech travelers encounter a strange tribe of ...

The impetus for writing the play was a real event – the investigation of the loss of the class register at a boys’ school in ...

This traditional seminar will introduce you to the most basic facts about Jára Cimrman. The ensuing play will show how difficult it is for some ...

Poverty was one of the many unfortunate aspects of Cimrman’s life. His traveling theater company, Lipany, suffered from high actor ...

On the occasion of the opening of the famous Vienna “Riesenrad,” a competition was held for the best operetta. A Czech, Jára Cimrman, ...

When late in life was presenting Cimrman his artistic activity, came arresting knowledge: none of the works he had signed, not recognition. And ...

The result of a clash between two intellectual forces: the artist’s irrepressible creative instinct and the equally irrepressible instinct ...

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s ...

In this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the street) it has a double that’s right in ...

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 ...

The small group of actors have to face many problems while preparing a new performance.

Engineer Pavel Hnyk is successful at work, but not very happy in his private life. He is approaching his fiftieth birthday and he can’t ...

A humorous modern fairy tale for adults about the life of devils. This is the story of a young couple in love: two devils named Artur and Blanka. ...

Cimrman’s play about Czech expedition to north pole.

Bohouš Burda, a forty-year-old idealist disillusioned with city life and his failing marriage, abandons it all to run a mobile dental clinic in ...

A scientist meets a nice girl and they start dating. He decides the only way to find out for sure if she’s the one is to take a long trip with ...

It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three ...