Jan Klusák Movies

An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughter's cheek.

A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded...

This original adaptation of Oscar Wilde's sad, socially conscious fairy tale, The Happy Prince, hinges on the conflict between fact and dream,...

In a rare instance of literary adaptation, Chytilová was inspired by Franz Kafka’s writings. Mr. K stashes stolen jewelry away at home...

Film based on the story by the French writer Gérard de Nerval. A terrifying story that takes us to Paris in the time of the Three Musketeers....

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...

Two different productions of Václav Havel's Beggar's Opera reveal the political dynamics of Czechoslovakia before and after the velvet...

The first short story "Naked in the Thorns" tells the story of a man whose clothes were taken away by a dog during his bath in the river. In the...

Three loosely-connected tales that represent different aspects of love: temptation, dreams, and adventure.

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...

Documentary short about the title composer, born in what was called "Czechoslovakia" when the film was made.

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

A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and death, set amidst complex hospital apparatus and the...

A meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.

The television production captures the last decade of the life of the now world-renowned painter Karel Purkyně (1834 - 1868) and his struggle...

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the...