Jan Dítĕ (Ivan Barnev) is a little guy — short in stature, and short on political awareness and social conscience as well. He’s just someone who wants to get rich as quickly as possible, which in the ...

Septuagenarian Czech filmmaker Jirí Menzel’s sixth adaptation of work by his late pal, the novelist Bohumil Hrabal (their collaboration goes back four decades and includes 1966’s Oscar-winning Closely ...

Forty years have passed since Czech director Jiri Menzel won an Oscar for Closely Watched Trains, yet the basic formula for this 2006 feature (based, like the other film, on a novel by Bohumil Hrabal) ...