Jaromil Jireš Movies

Story about fate, and their fatal consequences.

Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.

In a series of juxtaposed images and sounds, Jaromil Jireš comments on the tragic premature death of thousands as well as their posterity due...

A film about filmmaking.

In this six-minute short, a man’s attempt to burgle a home is interrupted by a child.

A documentary about the composer who made Czech music famous all over the world.

The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his...

This early short by Jaromil Jireš anticipates the formal and stylistic experimentation that would characterize VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS.

It is the depths of winter and in the middle of a desolate landscape on a snowy slope stands a log cabin, inhabited by an old man. The man puts his...