Jan Klusák Movies

Documentary short about the title composer, born in what was called "Czechoslovakia" when the film was made.

In this film Jaroslav Boček adapted his own story. Its excellent animation plays a significant role in all three comical performances of variety...

The television production captures the last decade of the life of the now world-renowned painter Karel Purkyně (1834 - 1868) and his struggle...

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends...

A meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.

The story of four men who were arrested in a random raid on a small-town hotel during the Nazi occupation and taken to a school classroom. They don't...

A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious...

Two different productions of Václav Havel's Beggar's Opera reveal the political dynamics of Czechoslovakia before and after the velvet...

A labyrinthine portrait of Czech culture on the brink of a new millennium. Egon Bondy prophesies a capitalist inferno, Jim Čert admits to...

The original score was in a sorry state: the notes were carelessly marked, the lines were broken, and the paper was covered in smudges. I took the...

A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and death, set amidst complex hospital apparatus and the...

The first short story "Naked in the Thorns" tells the story of a man whose clothes were taken away by a dog during his bath in the river. In the...

A string quartet of students is about to rehearse a new piece when everything is drowned out by the repeated loud call for a general mobilisation...

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...

In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a...