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This list is intended to showcase some of the best.
A few notes: About half of this list is from the Czech New Wave.
And finally: This list is incomplete.
There are 16 entries here; they could have been 16 different movies.
I chose only those that an American viewer can stream with relative ease.
The movie switches between black-and-white and vibrant splashes of color and is bursting with song and style.
It has to be seen and experienced to be believed.
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Krumbachova, who was for a time married to Nemec, co-wrote the screenplay with him.
It tells the story of provincial firemen trying to throw a big bash for their chiefs retirement.
The party features a beauty pageant, a raffle, song and dance and petty corruption and ineptitude.
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And the titular role inThe Cremator, directed by Juraj Herz, is one of his most famous.
Hrusinsky is a cremator who takes arguably too much pride in his work.
This is the creepiest movie I have ever seen.
The movie plays with time brilliantly.
It was banned for 20 years.
They labor alongside a group of women whose crime was trying to leave the country.
The lecturer tells him that thats a complicated question, and to ask again next week.
The next week, the same lecture happens.
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Still, there were some eminently watchable films from that time period.
This one is a cozy Christmas classic.
Maracek, Pass Me the Pen!
Further viewing:LipskysAdele Hasnt Had Her Dinner Yetis likewise very popular.
I think it is supposed to be for children.
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At first, the neighbor wants to be rid of his young charge.
But its really a portrait of a village and the messy lives that reside there.
Safrankova plays the main boys mother, and Hrusinsky is pitch-perfect as the exasperated school principal.
This Michaela Pavlatova piece was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Unwanted advances slither like a snake.
Gossip scurries between speakers like mice.
But she absconds to West Germany, leaving him with her 5-year-old son, Kolya.
Its also just beautifully shot.
I spent the first part thinking that it was pleasant enough, but perhaps not Oscar worthy.
I then wept on and off for the last 30 minutes of the movie.
Call it Kolya karma.
Its a coming-of-age story set in the 1960s including Prague Spring and its unfortunate end.
Its been voted as among the best if notthebest Czech movie in various polls.
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The husband cannot father children.
The Teacher(2017)
Yet another Hrebejk!
Again, its the brand of Czech comedy that is funny but also bone chilling.
