Ivo Špalj Movies

One of the film stories based on the old Prague legends. This one is about the old master clock maker Hanus who construed the Prague Old Town...

Dora, a lazy and evil woman, is in love with her servant, Hannes. Hannes, however, loves her sister-in-law, Margareta. When Dora learns about this,...

A fable on the futility of progress for its own sake.

A film about fatal love, bad dreams, normal madness and unnecessary death.

A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much...

The film recording of the ballet performance of the State Theatre in Brno was expensively realized in a theatrically stylized set built in the...

On a lonely island, where Odysseus has to serve the nymph Calypso, he remembers his great adventures: the glorious victory over Troy; the curse of...

In the young man's imagination, the image of a mysterious house - a mystical building that symbolizes the spiritual world of an unknown faith -...

The film tells the story of an enthusiastic young man who joins a textile factory in the late 1950s and assumes that a promising career awaits him -...

A poetic, but chilling story of seven puppets in train car prior to its journey to a concentration camp.

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies...

When the village school master discovers the body of a mean-spirited, miserly old woman, with whom he has had a disagreement, he decides to dispose...

Jan Svankmajer, at 85 years of age, is one of the most prominent artists of European cinema. His work has inspired and guided generations of...

Animation of recently discovered floor drawings on the wall of the former ghetto, combined with a reference to the opera Brundibár, which was...

A look at the legendary Czech sound designer and his profession. Editor and documentary filmmaker Adéla Špaljová has her father...

A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).

A visit to Prague by the most powerful man in the world coincides with Jan Němec's heart operation. He captures both events in a philosophical...

A film story based on the old Prague legends. It tells about a poor student lured by wealth, which he prefers to knowledge. In the end, he sells his...