Jan Klusák Movies

A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s...

Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the...

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...

A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

A picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up.

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly,...

Amadeus Macků, the village postman, is an incorrigible dreamer obsessed with the desire to fly. He invents and builds his own hovercrafts,...

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...

The original score was in a sorry state: the notes were carelessly marked, the lines were broken, and the paper was covered in smudges. I took the...

Matěj Hůrka, a teenage bricklayer's apprentice, a young man who is delicate in matters of love, lives with his grandmother in a country...

In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a...

This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world...

A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious...

While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends...

Bláža is a bland-looking student who is eager for her first love experience. Even though experienced men are interested in her, she...