Helena Třeštíková Movies

A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker Miloš Forman (1932-2018): his tragic...

In 35 years of one couple's shared life, a lot of things happen: from the moments of an absolute harmony to the dramatic falls. For the most of the...

An intimate portrait of a man on the edge of society, filmed over the course of twenty years.

“You bet on someone in the beginning of the process and then you wait and see what life does with them.” This is how Czech director...

The life of Marcela, an ordinary Czech woman is explored throughout several decades of her life. We are engaged to struggle and fight back with...

The Czech criminal René is finding it difficult to go straight. Roaming from job to shelter, from woman to woman, he discovers that living...

Lada is a product of "educational“ or "corrective“ institutions. Not only is he not educated or corrected, he simply does not understand...

René has been in prison since he was 16. He is sick of life and doesn’t care about his parents (just as René’s parents...

Honza was born in 1974 into the cheerless era of socialism in Czechoslovakia. At that time, his parents Jana and Petr lived in one room in the...

"The whole film talks about the time when I was first locked up, from sixteen till now, I’m 22 now, and during that whole time I was out maybe...

Life hasn't been easy on Mallory but after the birth of her son she tries desperately to kick her drug habit, and to stop living on the street. She...

This student film by the award-winning Helena Třeštíková bears many of the hallmarks of her later work. Made as a...

Heda Blochová was born in Prague into the Jewish family of the cofounder of the well-known Koh-i-noor factory. She married Rudolf Margolius, a...

Documentary film about Czech actress Lida Baarova, who fell in love with Joseph Goebbels in the 30s.