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At the end of the 1950s, this melodrama tells the story of a family torn apart by the war and the intergenerational conflict that occurs. As parents begin to piece together what true happiness should look like, their children push back with their own ideals. With communism hanging overhead, families must come together or risk falling apart.This autobiographical story from renowned writers Petr Jarchovsky and Jan Hrebejk highlights the importance of...
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Mamon volume 3
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Czech
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Police investigate Petr's involvement with Toman's death, while Petr and Stella push deeper into Central Energy's ties with foreign companies. Marie makes another big break that Max considers suspect. Petr's contacted by a man with information about a secret organization.
64) Winter Flies
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Two adolescent boys embark on a journey of misadventure in a stolen Audi, picking up a hitchhiker along the way. A story of boyhood friendship and the irrepressible desire to experience something even if you don't exactly know what.
67) Alois Nebel
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A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland.
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Mamon volume 4
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Petr tracks down a new lead who's in fear for his life, while Michal tracks down his father's past. Toman's wife is in fear for her children's safety when a dangerous man demands she hand something over. When Eva learns of the threat, Petr's warnings seem justified.
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Burning Bush volume 3
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Acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa) returns to a pivotal time in modern Czech history: the shocking act of a student of the Charles University's Faculty of Arts, who in protest of the Soviet occupation, set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square on the 16th of January 1969, and died four days later.
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After her husband's death, Eliska and her daughter move to a rural village in hopes of a fresh start. But it is not long before they hear the troubling tales of the mysterious woman who haunts the surrounding farm fields and abducts children in broad daylight. At first Eliska dismisses the rumors as a deranged fantasy. But when her daughter starts to show signs of abnormal and erratic behavior, Eliska realizes her new home is not safe. Now she must...
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Beauty in Trouble explores a young woman's romantic dilemma: torn between a primal connection and the need to provide for her children, she loves two men. Set against the back drop of the recent floods in Prague, Beauty in Trouble is full of unexpected twists, humor and amazing performances culminating in a surprising and paradox ending.
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Burning Bush volume 1
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Czech
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Acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa) returns to a pivotal time in modern Czech history: the shocking act of a student of the Charles University's Faculty of Arts, who in protest of the Soviet occupation, set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square on the 16th of January 1969, and died four days later.
75) The cremator
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Karl Kopfrkingl works at a stately crematorium in Prague. Obsessed with his duties, he believes he is liberating the souls of the departed. With Nazi forces gathering at the Czech border, Karl descends into a mania that allows him to wholly enact his disturbed beliefs.
76) Winter flies
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Police interrogate fourteen-year-old Mára at the station after he is caught behind the wheel far across country from where he lives. He and somewhat eccentric Heduš had set out for the frozen landscape down south to seek adventure, but the mischievous breeziness with which Mára gives his story, and his concealment of the details of the trip, gradually strip his statement of credibility.
77) Protektor
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This fateful love story is set in Prague during the late 1930s and subsequent Nazi occupation. It focuses on radio journalist Emil, who is deeply in love with his glamorous Jewish movie star wife Hana. When the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is established, Hana's career is cut short and Emil's radio station put under German control. Emil chooses to collaborate with the occupiers in order to survive and protect his wife. Ironically, this choice...
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