Jaromil Jireš Movies

A film about filmmaking.

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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