Best movies of Jirí Menzel

Actors : Ivan Barnev, Marián Labuda, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel.

Actors : Václav Neckár, Vladimír Valenta, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.

Actors : Rudolf Hrusínský, János Bán, Marián Labuda,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

Comedy about the people who inhabit a small town. For years the overbearing Pavek has endured Otik, the "town idiot," sharing his meals and the front seat of their dump truck. But Otik is ...

Actors : Jirí Schmitzer, Jaromír Hanzlík, Rudolf Hrusínský, Magda Vásáryová,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

An evocation of the childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal in his provincial town of Nymburk, dominated by the local brewery.

Actors : Jitka Zelenohorská, Václav Neckár, Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.

Actors : Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Míla Myslíková, Frantisek Rehák,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. ...

Actors : Marta Hradílková, Josef Kemr, Zdenek Sverák, Daniela Kolárová,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed.

Actors : Jaromír Hanzlík, Josef Somr, Rudolf Hrusínský, Petr Cepek,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants...

Actors : Valeriy Zolotukhin, Vladimir Ilin, Zoya Buryak, Gennadiy Nazarov,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The ...

Actors : Vlastimil Brodský, Jirí Slitr, Jirí Suchý, Eva Pilarová,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

Crime in the café-concert is both a comedy and a detective anti-totalitarian allegory set in a Prague's old cabaret. The star is a local singer who has fallen in love with the Minister of ...

Actors : Vlasta Fabiánová, Rudolf Hrusínský, Vladimír Mensík, Blazena Holisová,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte (Rudolf Hrusínský), an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie (Hana Buresová) to ...

Actors : Jaromír Hanzlík, Josef Abrhám, Rudolf Hrusínský, Marián Labuda,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic background, he is a man of fortune and ...

Actors : Jan Hrusínský, Jana Giergielová, Július Pántik, Míla Myslíková,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

Láda Kratochvíl has completed his military service and returns back home to carry on his profession of a watchmaker, looking forward to see his girlfriend - a hairdresser Petra. He plans to...

Actors : Josef Abrhám, Mahulena Bocanová, Jana Brezková, Petr Brukner,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

Screen version of the play written in 1728 of the same name, portrays the underworld of Mafia-like gangsters and the rivalry and animosity between the various different gangs.