Jaromil Jireš Movies

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

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

Film makes the creative process visible by letting its narrative flow in the mind of a foreign director who is researching a film about Franz Kafka...

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

In a series of juxtaposed images and sounds, Jaromil Jireš comments on the tragic premature death of thousands as well as their posterity due...

Marta (Lucie Patikova) was blinded in an accident brought on by her careless and indulgent younger sister. Now in a school for the blind, Marta keeps...

A television reporter visits the clerk, Mr Drobny, who answers dating ads and makes appointments with many women.

The dramatic story of Karel Svozil, an aging professor of art history, tells of love and old age, illness, death and the worries of everyday life...

Story about fate, and their fatal consequences.

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...

A film about filmmaking.

In a mountain village in eastern Moravia, J. D., a well-behaved and hard-working young man, his parents' only hope, mysteriously disappeared from...

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