Jaromil Jireš Movies

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them....

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

A film about filmmaking.

Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.

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

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

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...

An intimate psychological film which elaborates the Faustian theme about the dispute between the body and the soul - a study on human identity. Two...

Story about fate, and their fatal consequences.

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