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A fairy tale, featuring the landlady Margaret, the devil Boniface, the bribable councilors Fake and Chatterbox and the lazy tailor Greasy. In Hell, the devils have a quill that writes human sins into the Book of Sins and the devils go and pull the sinners down to Helll. One day, Boniface goes on Earth, Greasy the Tailor steals the quill from him. The Devils back in Hell think nobody is sinning and everything is all topsy-turvy. Boniface admits to Margaret that he is responsible for the whole mess. Together, they not only save the town of Pytlov from destruction, but Boniface learns what true love is.

The nearly forgotten story of Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of 669 children just before the outbreak of WWII.

Demons among us and the fight against them. Mysterious cases are solved by a hunter working for a secret order that maintains a balance between good and evil.

It is 1939 and Europe is on the brink of war. Hitler has invaded Czechoslovakia, threatening the lives of the Jewish population. Nicholas Winton, a young British stockbroker, decides he will do everything possible to save the lives of as many Jewish children as he can. This film tells the extraordinary story of how Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from the clutches of the Nazis, bringing them by train to Britain. In order to provide a degree of credibility with both the British and Nazi governments of the day, Nicholas single-handedly established the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia - Children's Section, using it to obtain passports and visas for the children. He then organised for each child to be adopted by families throughout the country and their safe passage across Europe and into Britain. For nearly fifty years, Nicholas told no-one of his heroic deeds. His incredible story might never have come to light were it not for his wife who, fifty years later, found a suitcase in the attic containing a remarkable scrapbook full of documents and transport plans. The story then emerged in 1988 when the BBC's That's Life programme reunited over two dozen of his 'children' with their rescuer for the first time in a highly emotional broadcast. Featuring Nicholas's final film interview before his death in 2015 aged 106, dramatic reconstruction of events and the testimonies of the rescued children. (Source : BBC.co.uk)

A small border town in the south of Slovakia is surprised by the sudden arrival of respected builder Mr. Hampl and his young wife Nada. She catches the eye of an equally young local teacher, Daniel, who is still recovering from his military experience in The Second World War. At first, Nada tries to resist Daniel's charm but her decision is complicated by the scent of flowering agave in the hot summer air. When the agave after 30 years of sleep finally blooms, Nada's primary decision not to give in is permanently void... A simple love story on the surface opens into to a deep, psychological study set in the hot summer of 1947. The Second World War has just ended and the Communist coup is waiting in the wings to wipe nearly a whole generation of Slovak intelligentsia from the history.

A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. Between March 13 and August 2, 1939, Nicholas Winton organized 8 transports to take children from Prague to new homes in Great Britain, and kept quiet about it until his wife discovered a scrapbook documenting his unique mission in 1988. Winton was a successful 29-year-old stockbroker in London who "had an intuition" about the fate of the Jews when he visited Prague in 1939. He quietly but decisively got down to the business of saving lives. We learn how only two countries, Sweden and Britain, answered his call to harbor the young refugees; how documents had to be forged and how once foster parents signed for the children on delivery, that was the last he saw of them.

It should have been the best day of her life, but then a strange guest with a stranger claim entered the marriage merriment. About the shadows which catch up with each of us.

A police captain Hakl investigates a jewel robbery in 1950s Prague. The case tangles, and Hakl must fight an enemy to save his family and himself.

Charming 60-something José (Josef Abrhám) returns to Prague after 30 years living in Mexico, though he was convinced that he would never see his hometown again. He was persuaded by his deeply-religious Mexican wife Dolores (Dolores Heredia), who is convinced that only a miracle that might be fulfilled by Prague's famous Infant Jesus can help their daughter Penelopé (Aislinn Derbez) get pregnant, and the ideal time for this is Christmas. And when Ruda (Václav Postránecký), his friend from Prague, also insists, José agrees to return to the places he used to know and to the memories that they bring back--including his former Prague love Kveta (Libuse Safránková). It becomes evident that the Infant Jesus is not the only one capable of making miracles come true in Prague. Penelopé's longed-for conception is definitely not the only one.

18-year old Martin is completely forlorn. He is looking for someone on his own wavelenth. His only refuge is with his eccentric neighbor, Theodora, who helps Martin sift through responses to his personal ads. Soon, Martin is drawn to Hannah and Her Brothers, a local cabaret. The owner, Hannah, is a man with a secret - one that Martin shares.

Seventy-year old Zoltan Max may be a rebel and a skirt-chaser but on the job he's still got it - along with a millennial for a partner.

A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls. There he writes lyrics for many of the underground rock band hits by 'The Plastic People of the Universa', a group heavily influenced by Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground.

Farewell Comrades paints a portrait of the Soviet Union's decline from the inside, covering the period from 1975 to 1991.

In love with a girl that smells of oranges while in a complicated relationship with his father, Darek is gentle, strong and devoted to his little sister and their herd of horses. Darek's world is a story about the joy and pain of growing up in the isolated yet beautiful Lusatian Mountains. Here, horses are not expensive specimens of racing stables but beings you should care for and love. Not even that is enough in life though, as Darek finds out nearing the Summer's end, closing his childhood definitely. However, just like any ending, this is a start of something new. This is an adaptation of the book, "The Orange Days," which has won literary prizes in Europe and been published in five languages.

Portrait of the famous Slovak neurologist Pavel Traubner shows not only an exceptional neurologist who has helped thousands of his patients in a fundamental way, but also a person who believes deeply in the principles of humanism, tolerance. He's been always ready to show helping hand to anybody. But Mr. Traubner is also not indifferent to the negative things that happen in society and he is willing to fight against xenophobic and racist torrents. He has never forgotten that his own life as child was endangered by the Nazis and was saved thanks to the kindness and bravery of people. This has turned out to be an important lesson for his life.

A fresh perspective on contemporary life in Eastern Europe infuses this winning comic drama. Through a mosaic of real and dreamlike situations, we witness art history student Zuza fly off course in her effort to obtain as much from life as she can in the shortest possible time. Like most young people, she wants to study, earn big money, find and enjoy the love of her life, and replace her dysfunctional family with something more stable. Her story unfolds in present day Bratislava and Paris. Zuza, however, is not a typical poor student. Besides studying, she earns her living as a dubbing actress. She s independent, financially secure, and popular, but she lacks the permanent relationships, strong family ties and security that might bring a bit of order into her chaotic existence. It seems that only her eccentric grandmother Erzsebet, for whom Zuza cares dearly, can help Zuza settle down and find her true self.

A story about Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, a talented strategist who became not only privy to the most heavily guarded strategic plans of the Warsaw Pact in the 1970s, but in fact drew up those plans himself. Had it not been for the information that Kuklinski passed on to Americans, perhaps now all of Europe would be licking its wounds after a nuclear cataclysm. "

A period drama about a young physician who was forced to carry out execution during the war.Is he a hero or a murder?

Real love saved her life. Famous photographer of film stars ZUZANA MINACOVA presents a fascinating account of the Nazi and Communist era in Central Europe.

He was The Beatles official photographer, working with the Rolling Stones and other rock stars of the second half of the 20th century. This feature-length documentary about the globally acclaimed Slovak photographer, who until recently was almost forgotten, highlights the importance of Dezo Hoffmann's influence on the development of the world of photography - his originality, creativity and not yet fully appreciated innovation, thanks to which his photographs have become and indelible part of the history of pop music.