Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.
影片開始於兩個都叫瑪麗的少女(Jitka Cerhová 和 Ivana Karbanová 飾)的對話:沒有人理解我們,這個世界上的一切正在變得越來越糟糕。於是兩人決定:我們也要變得越來越壞!瑪麗一號喜歡和老男人約會,在他們吃飯的時候,瑪麗二號會突然出現,旁若無人地大吃特吃。瑪麗一號把老男人送上火車,老男人以為她會陪著他,火車開動,她卻下了火車。瑪麗二號在一個收藏蝴蝶標本的男青年家中,用他的標本遮住自己身體的隱秘部位。她們在夜總會裡搗亂,最後被趕走。她們無意中闖入一個沒有人的宴會,開始肆無忌憚地享受美食.....本片獻給精神生活一團糟的人們。
二戰期間,德國納粹將戰火燃至捷克境內,在捷克某個鄉村有位叫米洛什的年輕人,他剛通過火車調度員培訓測試,成為一名實習員,在這個車站的大部分時間裡,大家都處於一種無所事事混日子的狀態,凸顯各種五花八門的「性事」,祭壇後的通姦、胡比奇接二連三的胡搞、米洛什的早洩、士兵和護士的廝混...等,在這平凡樂天的狀況下,最後對戰爭毫無緊張的米洛什,卻成功地為捷克炸毀了被德國嚴密監視列車的任務…
The firemen of a provincial Czechoslovakian town throw a ball in honor of the old chief's retirement. There will be music and dancing, a beauty pageant and a raffle. The whole town will be in attendance. However, the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. Workplace injuries, stolen prizes, a shortage of pretty girls... and fire.
金髮女郎在小城工廠上班,和所有年輕人一樣渴望浪漫的愛情。聽說鎮上要為經過此地的軍隊辦舞會,所有少女都滿心期待,結果來的盡是老弱殘兵。喪氣的金髮女郎不願遷就大叔,反而注意到樂隊的鋼琴師一表人才。看對眼的兩人纏綿一夜,女孩念念不忘,決定前往布拉格拜訪。然而她以為的天長地久,會不會只是逢場作戲?一個簡單的故事,場面調度卻神乎其技,無論是舞會的人性百態,或是初夜的含羞帶怯,都能擦出幽默的火花,演員表現可圈可點。
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness...
A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker Miloš Forman (1932-2018): his tragic childhood, his major contribution to the cultural movement known as the Czech New Wave, his exile in Paris, his troubled days in New York, his rise to stardom in Hollywood; a complete existence in the service of cinema.
In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint. The first follows Olympic champion gymnast Eva Bosáková, who contemplates retirement as she undergoes a gruelling training schedule; the second, a housewife who is unappreciated and ignored by her husband.
The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly subject to the voice of others.
An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.
Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.
本片是捷克新浪潮運動興起時的一次集體亮相,這些崇尚個性的導演大多數畢業於布拉格電影學校,他們希望打破蘇聯電影教學模式試圖以嶄新的影像語言描繪他們所看到的世界,這些題材各異的短片表現了年輕導演對於世界的理解和他們的關注點,這五位導演分別是伊日· 門澤爾(《嚴密監控的列車》)、維拉 齊蒂洛娃(《雛菊》)、亞羅米爾·伊雷什(《瓦萊莉和她的奇跡一周》)、埃德爾瓦·朔爾姆和揚·涅麥茨。他們以他們的年輕和熱情在一個禁忌的年代用最大可能表現了他們的思想和充滿先鋒、前衛的視覺。