CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel (2018)

September 16th, 20187h 28min

Documentary
65%

Overview

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.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

Marceline. A Woman. A Century

Marceline. A Woman. A Century


Released on: 2019-05-01
Documentary, History

Portrait of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, a writer and filmmaker who survived the Holocaust.

Memory Books

Memory Books


Released on: 2008-05-01
Documentary

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

Inside the Khmer Rouge

Inside the Khmer Rouge


Released on:
Documentary, War

Inside the Khmer Rouge takes an in-depth look at the history, domination, and current status of the ...

Between Dog and Wolf

Between Dog and Wolf


Released on: 2014-10-12
Documentary

New Model Army have been one of the biggest underground music artists for over quarter of a century....

Nova the Film

Nova the Film


Released on: 2011-03-18
Documentary

An inspiring 75min DIY documentary film on new art and the young artists behind it. It was all filme...

The Rise & Fall of Penn Station

The Rise & Fall of Penn Station


Released on: 2004-02-18
History, Documentary

In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...

Balaton retró

Balaton retró


Released on: 2007-12-12
Documentary

Scenes from holiday life at Lake Balaton in Hungary during the communism.

2 or 3 Things I Know About Him

2 or 3 Things I Know About Him


Released on: 2005-04-07
Documentary, Drama

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos

An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos


Released on: 2019-04-05
Documentary

A retrospective on the life and work of Portuguese director António-Pedro Vasconcelos.

To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

To Make a Comedy Is No Fun


Released on: 2016-10-05
Documentary

Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Form...

Friedrich Engels - Der Unterschätzte

Friedrich Engels - Der Unterschätzte


Released on: 2020-11-20
Documentary, History, TV Movie

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx formed one of the most famous duos in world history. In contrast to M...

In Rheinsberg

In Rheinsberg


Released on: 1982-09-24
Documentary

Documentary about the small city of Rheinsberg, once the summer residence of Prussian princes. Avera...

Concerning Violence

Concerning Violence


Released on: 2014-01-17
Documentary

Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most da...

De Gaulle bâtisseur

De Gaulle bâtisseur


Released on: 2020-11-16
Documentary, History, TV Movie

In the back of history - The lost villages of Masuria

In the back of history - The lost villages of Masuria


Released on: 2018-09-01
Documentary

In September of 2017 German writer and director Daniel Raboldt accompanied a group of German and Pol...

Haymatloz - Exil in der Türkei

Haymatloz - Exil in der Türkei


Released on: 2016-10-22
Documentary

″Haymatloz″ tells the stories of five German Jewish academics who emigrated to Turkey in the 1930s, ...

The Sterilization of Leilani Muir

The Sterilization of Leilani Muir


Released on: 1996-01-01
Documentary

The life and times of Leilani Muir, the first person to file a lawsuit against the Alberta provincia...

The Goat Who Climbed to Heaven

The Goat Who Climbed to Heaven


Released on: 2019-04-11
Documentary

This film is a story about that time in the Baltics, Latvia, and Riga. Young rebels of 1960s – nonco...

Shooting the Darkness

Shooting the Darkness


Released on: 2019-01-30
Documentary, History, TV Movie

The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns ...

Don't Let the Devil Take Another Day

Don't Let the Devil Take Another Day


Released on: 2020-12-11
Music, Documentary

Don't Let the Devil Take Another Day tells the heartfelt, human story of Stereophonics frontman/song...