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Nazi propaganda film about the Czech "Theresienstadt ghetto" in Terezín. The film was supposed to show the world that Jews didn't suffer in concentration camps. Upon completion, most Jews shown in the film (including director Kurt Gerron) were brought to Auschwitz, where they were killed.
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May was filmed as a backdrop to part of a theatre performance D36-D37 under the E. F. Burian's lead inspired by the classic Czech poem of the same name by Karel Hynek Macha.
A love story between a man and a woman unfolds in simply sequences. The man seduces the woman and she follows him, entranced...
A documentary about the 11th All-Sokol Rally in Prague in 1948, focusing in the first part on performances by schoolchildren, youth days, and their parade.
The mobilisation of the army changes the life of a young man. He becomes a figure on a chess board of war. A piece of shrapnel blinds him and his cries of "I cannot see" become a refrain symbolising the horrors of war."
Documentary film about the historical and cultural development of the two largest cities in East Bohemia - Pardubice and Hradec Králové.
A witty day-in-the-life of a man, his fantasies, love life and all, shown through his hands. Čeněk Zahradníček made this film in collaboration with Vladimír Šmejkal.
A propaganda film about the struggle of the Slovak army on the eastern front in 1941 and 1942.
The tension of a card game conveyed by the varied variation of camera angles, different shot sizes and the way the main scene is lit with three passionate players at one table.
