Movies by Iva Janžurová

Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...
Czech comedy from the 70ties.

A Major Role for Rosmaryna
The director of films for kids called Bonzurka together with her loyal assistants Drahuska and Honza are looking for the actors for a new movie "The Knee". Children for this movie should not be afraid and shy and they must have talent for acting. Thus the scouting is quite difficult. The most difficult is to find an actress for a main character who lost her hair after a serious illness and now has to spent the whole holiday in the countryside with a bald head resembling a knee. Although the makeup artist does his best an artificial baldness...

Don't Take the Sweater Off
A young Czech couple are terrorized by their funny family.

Všichni musí být v pyžamu

Bedtime Story
Comedy based on short Sean O'Casey play. John Jo Mulligan finds himself in a situation with which his pious conscience cannot cope. He has spent a night with the cunning seductress Angela. Full of remorse and dreading the ruin of his reputation, he tries to get rid of her, fearing that his pal Halibut or his landlady Miss Mossie might get to know. Angela sees her chance, turns gold-digger and does not leave before relieving John of a considerable amount of money.

Jak si nevzít princeznu
Talisman
Jindřich IV.

Long Live the Republic
Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imagination on his side, and a wiry toughness they can’t defeat. The village is in turmoil, because the Nazi occupiers have just retreated and the Red Army is advancing. Oldrich dodges amid the mayhem and panic, taking his share of blows but always managing to stay one step ahead. Beautifully shot and darkly ironic, Karel Kachyna’s forgotten masterpiece jumbles reality, memory and fantasy to capture the intensity and confusion of childhood in a wa...
Lysistrata

Rytmus 1934
Silvestr na Silvestru
Bidýlko

Čintamani & podvodník
Forecast: Zero
A tram pasted with posters travels through Prague. The mounted loudspeakers invite passers-by to a series of concerts of Giuseppe Verdi's masterpieces. On the tram a party of young people is getting drunk.
Noc na Karlštejně
Jak se peče štěstí
Zuzana Michnová – Jsem slavná tak akorát

Vy nám taky, šéfe!
Pražský Sherlock Holmes