In 1976, the Czech New Wave philosopher and director Evald Schorm came to the Na zábradlí Theatre. He stayed there for twelve years, until his death. He raised a generation of actors who were aware of their own personalities. In The Brothers Karamazov, the then compact acting ensemble performed in full force on stage. Schorm created from ban to ban (Hamlet, Macbeth, The Brothers Karamazov, Marathon) and in front of Zábradlí, there were queues for tickets in double rows all the way to the Vltava embankment: when the subscription began, people slept outside from midnight until ten in the morning, when the box office opened, in sleeping bags, they brought fishing chairs to the theater. A ticket to Zábradlí was more valuable than Tuzex vouchers...

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To...

In 17th century Holland, a faction of royalists is scheming to restore the monarchy and jail the De ...

Eevi works in a beauty parlor, leading a humdrum life in the suburbs of Helsinki with his husband Ka...

In school, Wang Hsiao-hsia and her childhood friend Yuzu are seen as a couple, but Hsiao-hsia secret...

Tetsumu, an introverted youth, realizes he has a natural ability of communicating with elephants. Th...

Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends ...

Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of res...

Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by...

An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken h...

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask start...

Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta an...

Torn by betrayal, Zhang Nan and Zhe must face the past and decide if their love can survive—or if it...

Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a ...

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowb...

Surya, a courageous man who was raised in the slums, fights for the rights of the poor and befriends...

Hermitage, defined by Bene as "a rehearsal for lenses", beyond any literal rendition - its narrative...

After a five-year hiatus, psychiatrist Yehia returns to work at Abbasiya Hospital. He’s assigned to ...

A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later...
In this experimental play, He Yunqing is a Go master who has played chess all his life

The political adviser to Australia's Minister of the Arts investigates the suspicious death of a dis...