Živé mrtvoly

Blues o mrtvém vrabci

This documentary by director Štěpán Kačírek offers a glimpse into the life of poet, playwright, illustrator, photographer, and, paradoxically, communist and jazz musician Josef Kainar. Despite his artistic versatility, p

The State of the Dead

When the war in Yugoslavia breaks out, an army officer who's ethnic Slovenian yet still believes in Yugoslavia, decides to move to Belgrade. The country continues to fall apart and so does his family failing to find acce

Mrtvolu sprovoďte ze světa

Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song

Ten-year-old Ida believes that the mysterious angelic singing resounding across the village graveyard is the only thing keeping her beloved Grandma alive. So she decides to join the school choir-even though she is absolu

Five Dead Adresses

A contemporary drama about a woman at a turning point in life, too old to start life all over, but young enough not to decide to try. After a failed marriage abroad, childless and with unfulfilled expectations, Melisa re

Well Tempered Corpses

A couple of morticians entertain themselves by betting on how many cold customers will come in that day. But one of the corpses refuses to cooperate...

The Case of Dead Schoolmates

A West German businessman Friedrich Schmidt is arriving to Czechoslovakia with private mission and mission for Intelligence service. He wants to settle the old event from the time of the Second World War when he as a stu

Prvá noc pri mŕtvej

Television adaptation of a short story by Czech journalist and novelist Jakub Arbes. The depiction of love and death brings a suggestive story about jealousy, a destructive passion that becomes self-destructive as well.

Pohádka o mrtvém voliči

A Dead Man among the Living

Human bravery can take many forms, just as ideas about it can. Small-town public opinion begins to despise a postal clerk because he gave cash to robbers who didn't hesitate to shoot. The result is a successful study of

Dead City

A visit to the deserted city of Perast.

Happy Day of the Dead

Zeko and Gogi, two stereotypical criminals, have to get rid of a corpse on November 1. What seems like a routine task turns out to be much more difficult, especially when a veterinarian, a butcher, and a prostitute get i

Mrtvá královna aneb Jak se zabíjejí ženy

From the House of the Dead

Condensing the life stories – memories of prison in Silesia – related by Dostoyevsky in his work The House of the Dead, Leoš Janáček composed an opera filled with burning desire and longing. Contagious savagery, cruelty

Dead Man Doesn't Hiccup

A woman is in front of a tribunal and pleads about her case, but her assigned defendant lawyer hasn't showed up. She is also hiccupping since her husband died in a war. The trial gets more absurd as new characters come i

Pomsta mŕtvych rýb

Party of the Living Dead

At the local cemetery, a zombie rises from its grave. There's a party going on at a house nearby, the sounds of which attract him. The party itself was boring and dull, until a zombie showed up.

Awakening from the Dead

The story takes place at the beginning of the bombing, both in Belgrade and in one small town in Serbia, at the end of March 1999. Forty-year-old Mickey, an unaccomplished writer, a disillusioned assistant professor at t

Dead Man Walking

In September 2004, Himzo Muratovic returned from the dead. Himzo turned up in a taxi in his Bosnian Muslim village, 12 years after he disappeared at the height of the Serb terror. His mother fell unconscious when neighbo