Petr Zelenka

Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of matchmaker and occasionally helps to put together some of his friends. He helps to separate his friend Hanka from Peter, an announcer for an independent radio station who tries to capture "real" life by recording the moments from "reality" and playing them over the air.

Twist of fate and the twists of mind of the characters (mostly couples) combine in just the right twinkled absurd way in the interweaving episodes of this comedy. Each of the characters gets a good shot at being sarcastic and each is a sorry loser at some point yet none is turned into the butt of the joke. (imdb)

Adapted from Zelenka's own play. Petr Hanek (Trojan), 33, has lost his job and his girlfriend, Jana (Šulajová). His attempts to win her back are complicated by the increasingly bizarre situations he finds himself in. Petr's eccentric mother (Divíšková), meanwhile, attempts to snap Petr's father (Krobot) out of his emotional detachment, with unexpected results. (prague.tv)

Jan Holman, a Dutch documentary maker, runs in a Czech alcohol clinic into Jaromír Nohavica, an ultrafamous singer/songwriter. Holman gets interested in Jaromír and follows him during his comeback. To help his former guitarist Karel Plíhal, who is unable to speak anymore, Nohavica decides to cooperate with the band Cechomor. The success is overwhelming, the combination attracts full houses. But soon the success draws a heavy toll on the band members and Jan Holman. (imdb)

A drama company from Prague arrives in Krakow to present a stage adaptation of Dostoevsky's famous novel at the city's alternative theatre festival; the production is to be staged in an unusual venue- the local steelworks. During rehearsals, the drama on stage spills over into real life. (leedsfilm.com)

Petr Zelenka's film tells the absurd story of the French Prime Minister's parrot, a witness to the Munich Conference, who reveals its secrets decades later. (BFI LFF)