Jaromil Jireš Movies

In this six-minute short, a man’s attempt to burgle a home is interrupted by a child.

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

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them....

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...

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...

An intimate psychological film which elaborates the Faustian theme about the dispute between the body and the soul - a study on human identity. Two...

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

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

A film about filmmaking.