Jaromil Jireš Movies

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

Marta (Lucie Patikova) was blinded in an accident brought on by her careless and indulgent younger sister. Now in a school for the blind, Marta keeps...

A television reporter visits the clerk, Mr Drobny, who answers dating ads and makes appointments with many women.

A film about filmmaking.

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...

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

Story about fate, and their fatal consequences.

In a mountain village in eastern Moravia, J. D., a well-behaved and hard-working young man, his parents' only hope, mysteriously disappeared from...

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

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

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...