Movies by Jan Libíček

Hliněný vozíček

Hliněný vozíček

Three Wishes for Cinderella

Three Wishes for Cinderella

Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides in her closest friend the owl. When she comes across three magical acorns, she's granted a single wish for each one of them.

Kinoautomat

Kinoautomat

Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. At nine points during the film the action stops, and a moderator appears on stage to ask the audience to choose between two scenes; following an audience vote, the chosen scene is played.

Ohnivý máj

Ohnivý máj

Král Ubu

Král Ubu

The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night

The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the stationmaster. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes hold and everyone’s worst instincts are released. Interrogations, the abolition of rights and the search for scapegoats ultimately lead to murder

Třírohý klobouk

Třírohý klobouk

Pražský Sherlock Holmes

Pražský Sherlock Holmes

Zločin pátera Amara

Zločin pátera Amara

Jak se státi gentlemanem

Jak se státi gentlemanem

Zvony pana Mlácena

Zvony pana Mlácena

Zbojník Ondráš

Zbojník Ondráš

Konec agenta č. 312

Konec agenta č. 312

Čirok

Čirok

How to Get Rid of Helenka

How to Get Rid of Helenka

Radio announcer Petrícek reads the evening news in a studio. Viki, the female editor of a woman's program, is annoyed by the stereotypical information he provides as well as by the speaker's melodious voice and his heart-felt performance. Then she gets an idea for a prank. She calls the speaker from the neighboring room on the phone and pretends to be an unhappily married woman who draws all her strength to live from Petrícek's voice.

O hradu Zásadce a turecké vojně

O hradu Zásadce a turecké vojně

Dobrá rada je nad zlato

Dobrá rada je nad zlato

Tři nevinní

Tři nevinní

Zázrak svatého Antonína

Zázrak svatého Antonína

Mlha

Mlha

The work of actors on a stage makes a dreamlike parallelism between artistic immagination and the concreteness of everyday life. Tribute to Prague's Divadlo na zàbradlì, theater that has been a point of reference for Theater of the Absurd in Czechoslovakia in Sixties