Released Date:
2001-05-17
Languages:
Czech, German, English, Slovak
Countries:
Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (4576 Reviews)
Director:
Jan SverèkZdenek Sverèk (story)
Zdenek Sverèk (screenplay)
March 15, 1939: Germany invades Czechoslovakia. Czech and Slovak pilots flee to England, joining the RAF. After the war, back home, they are put in labor camps, suspected of anti-Communist ideas. This film cuts between a post-war camp where Franta is a prisoner and England during the war, where Franta is like a big brother to Karel, a very young pilot. On maneuvers, Karel crash lands by the rural home of Susan, an English woman whose husband is MIA. She spends one night with Karel, and he thinks he's found the love of his life. It's complicated by Susan's attraction to Franta. How will the three handle innocence, Eros, friendship, and the heat of battle? When war ends, what then?
Released Date:
2001-05-17
Languages:
Czech, German, English, Slovak
Countries:
Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (4580 Reviews)
Director:
Jan SverèkZdenek Sverèk (story)
Zdenek Sverèk (screenplay)
March 15, 1939: Germany invades Czechoslovakia. Czech and Slovak pilots flee to England, joining the RAF. After the war, back home, they are put in labor camps, suspected of anti-Communist ideas. This film cuts between a post-war camp where Franta is a prisoner and England during the war, where Franta is like a big brother to Karel, a very young pilot. On maneuvers, Karel crash lands by the rural home of Susan, an English woman whose husband is MIA. She spends one night with Karel, and he thinks he's found the love of his life. It's complicated by Susan's attraction to Franta. How will the three handle innocence, Eros, friendship, and the heat of battle? When war ends, what then?
Released Date:
2015-02-01
Languages:
Czech
Countries:
Czech Republic
Runtime:
111 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (34 Reviews)
Director:
Jan PrusinovskèBrothers Grass and Cobra Snake, in their late and early thirties respectively, live in a small Czech town not far from Prague. Coming from a disfunctional family, they both feel unable to build up a life to be satisfied with. Grass, unemployed and still without a girl, does not know how to escape from the shadow of his druggie and troublemaker brother Cobra. Things seem to change for Grass when all at once he gets the opportunity to be part of a promising business and starts a relationship with the waitress of a local pub. It is just then when Cobra and his addiction show up in his life once more to put him on the verge of losing everything he achieved. But this time Grass is determined to not let anybody or anything stop his last chance in life to be happy and he decides to teach his brother a life lesson he should never forget.... A lesson that uncontrollably turns into a nightmare...
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