Ivo Špalj Movies

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies...

This controversial feature blends documentary, archival footage and fiction into an elliptical narrative in which two young people in Prague, an...

In the young man's imagination, the image of a mysterious house - a mystical building that symbolizes the spiritual world of an unknown faith -...

Bohus is indolent and spends his days drinking brandy. One day he finds he has inherited a brickworks, several shops and a five-star hotel. Bohus...

A man obsessed with crossword puzzles ignores his wife's desire for intimacy

The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.

Prince Victor looks in vain for a swan which was wounded by one of his servants. Instead he discovers a beautiful girl with golden hair who has an...

A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of...

A look at the legendary Czech sound designer and his profession. Editor and documentary filmmaker Adéla Špaljová has her father...

The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr...

Animation of recently discovered floor drawings on the wall of the former ghetto, combined with a reference to the opera Brundibár, which was...

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to...

A neon heart installed above Prague Castle illuminated the city for the last three months of Václav Havel’s presidency in an...

Maryša, a peasant daughter, is forced by her greedy parents to marry a rich miller, a widower with three children. But she loves the village...

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s...

The sequel to the successful film Fimfárum by Jan Werich. Four brand new stories “for clever children and clever adults” from the...

A period musical comedy set in a quiet Prague quarter at the end of the fifties. Using the western plot device of the "man from nowhere" a generation...

A group of teenagers are trying to solve a mystery of a puzzle created and left to them by the dead boy.