Vladimír Mensík

A working-class young woman (Andula) in a hick Czech town sleeps with one of the band members of a group from Prague... (imdb)

Some people with a strange cat arrive in a small village. The cat wears glasses, and when someone takes them off, she can colour people, according to their nature and mood. The grown-ups of the village consider the cat to be dangerous, but the kids just love her... (imdb)

Set in World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world. (imdb)

In this extremely strange Czech film, the grim story is told in reverse. The film literally runs backwards at the beginning as it depicts Mensik's severed head rolling back onto his body during a beheading... (AllMovie.com)

The film stars Libuse Safrankova as the title character, a young woman who is put upon by her stepmother and stepsisters. The film employs a twist, though, when a handsome prince comes knocking. Cinderella does not simply fall into the prince's arms. In this version, he must actively pursue the young woman who is a skilled sharpshooter prone to wearing hunting outfits. Cinderella also has three wishes at her disposal, gained from three magic nuts. (imdb)

Stories about seven friends in a small Moravian village following the socialization of Czechoslovakia in 1948, developing gradually into the story of Frantiek, the resister. The film offers some direct political criticism, particularly of the process of collectivizing agriculture. After the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, it was promptly banned. (IMDB)

In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen. The trouble begins when she tries the contraption out on her husband and discovers his dreams are filled with cartoon-like characters doing outrageous things. Naturally, the scientist is quite shocked. Believing that such frivolous fantasies just won't do, she tries to manipulate his dreams... (Allmovie.com)

Satirising the American Western genre, Lemonade Joe is the clean living gun fighter who drinks only Kolaloka lemonade and takes on a town full of whiskey drinking cowboys. It is a musical comedy parodying the old silent westerns, with colour tinting, speeded up fight scenes including the obligatory breaking bannister. (wikipedia.org)

After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of psychotic serial killer Fany Stubová. Accidentally, Hampl's brain is implanted into assassin's body, actress Keleti is killed and chaos begins..

There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the only way is to drown Dr. Mrácek, who is responsible for the demolition. But he falls in love with Wassermann's niece Jana. He changes to fish, is mistaked for water spirit from Germany, is drowned and revived again. (imdb)

Jan is a decent, boring man, living a decent, boring life as a rocket designer. When his adventurous twin brother dies in a breakfast accident, Jan decides to impersonate him, unwittingly becoming a part of a Nazi time travel conspiracy. (imdb)

Lonely middle age man meets younger woman and fell in love with her. But she is not what he thought. Movie about needs of love and emotions in our lives.

A woman has a romantic relationship with the devil

This 1978 film, set in 1907, is a tribute commemorating the 80th year of Czechoslovak filmmaking. Among the accomplishments of Czechoslovak filmmakers of the period are, the improvement on the Lumière camera and the creation of a commercially viable indigenous cinema years before Berlin. Czechoslovak films were sufficiently distinctive and plentiful to make a notable contribution to world cinema of the time. In this movie, the filming of several one-reel movies of the period is re-enacted.

A nostalgic tale of a family in which and a girl who causes a struggle between the two brothers. The story takes place in the twenties and thirties.

Saxana has the enthusiasm, but lacks the right talent to become a witch. So she's kept in for 300 years - nothing unusual for a sorceress' school. Being bored, she skims through the magicians' lexicon and finds a formula which brings her into the world of the humans for 48 hours. There she meets the friendly Peter who takes her with him to school... and the adventures begin (imdb)

Scientists has just finished testing a machine for rejuvenating cattle, which would make old cows produce as much milk as they did in their prime. However, one of the scientists gets the brilliant idea to rejuvenate people for money. There's only one problem, right after the treatment, you can't eat spinach. And of course, spinach is the local specialty.

A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. (AMG)

Schoolboy Čestmír Trnka is engulfed by a meteorite and transported into the planet of flowers. From there, he returns with two seeds for two magic flowers. He can fly or turn into adult when he sniffs the flowers

A policeman kills a robber in self-defense and, with no leads left, leaves the police to investigate on his own.

The story is about Anna Holubová, her daughter Michala, her son Petr and her husbands. The whole story takes place under socialism. Anna after the divorce starts working in a convenience store, where she meets her future husband while solving problems with stammering Jiřinka warehouse keeper Dominik, or Vilímek who likes her. But children do not like Anna's future husband. The entire story takes place in one year (12 parts of 12 months).

Princess Arabela, the daughter of the King of the fairy tale world escapes before the revenge of a cunning and deceitful magician Rumburak and leaves the world of fairy tales. She meets Petr Majer in the human world and falls in love with him. Spells, a magic ring, the crystal ball, a flying suitcase and magic things play a very important role in the series. (imdb)