czechoslovakia &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:czechoslovakia @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:36:50 +0200 Balada pro banditu [Ballad for a Bandit] (Vladimír Sís, 1979) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-577t <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Balada pro banditu [Ballad for a Bandit] (Vladimír Sís, 1979)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 24/div div class="occasion" Christmas Eve – Nikolas/div div class="img" Balada pro banditu (1979).webp)/div div class="caption" The bandit and his bride. DP: Viktor Růžička./div div class="txt" A Nikolas or Nicholas for Christmas Eve. &nbsp; The tale of legendary highwayman Nikola Šuhaj from Koločava. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #Nikolas #VladimírSís #MilanUhde #MilošŠtědroň #MiroslavDonutil #PetrMaláč #IvaBittová #BlankaRudová #FrantišekDerfler #MilošŠtědroň #VlastimilHála #ViktorRůžička #crime #FairyTale #drama #romance #musical #theatre #history #biopic #Czechoslovakia #1970s/div /section ]]>

Balada pro banditu [Ballad for a Bandit] (Vladimír Sís, 1979)

Dec

24

Christmas Eve – Nikolas

Balada pro banditu (1979)

The bandit and his bride. DP: Viktor Růžička.

A Nikolas or Nicholas for Christmas Eve.

 

The tale of legendary highwayman Nikola Šuhaj from Koločava.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #Nikolas #VladimírSís #MilanUhde #MilošŠtědroň #MiroslavDonutil #PetrMaláč #IvaBittová #BlankaRudová #FrantišekDerfler #MilošŠtědroň #VlastimilHála #ViktorRůžička #crime #FairyTale #drama #romance #musical #theatre #history #biopic #Czechoslovakia #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-577t Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:45:00 +0100 Tajemství hradu v Karpatech [The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians] (Oldřich... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tajemstvi-hradu-v-karpatech-1981 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Tajemství hradu v Karpatech [The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians] (Oldřich Lipský, 1981)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="occasion" 1897/div div class="img" Tajemství hradu v Karpatech (1981)/div div class="caption" A calendar – undeniably designed by the great Jan Švankmajer – with the date October 27, 1897, set on the day of – or referencing a saint – Sabina. Screenshot via DVDBeaver. DP: Viktor Růžička./div div class="txt" – You surely know that my financial support is unlimited. – Yes. Long live your false cheque factories! /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #OldřichLipský #MichalDočolomanský #EvelynaSteimarová #JanHartl #JanŠvankmajer #RudolfHrušínský #LubošFišer #ViktorRůžička #SciFi #fantasy #comedy #JulesVerne #Carpathians #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1980s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Tajemství hradu v Karpatech [The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians] (Oldřich Lipský, 1981)

Oct

27

1897

Tajemství hradu v Karpatech (1981)

A calendar – undeniably designed by the great Jan Švankmajer – with the date October 27, 1897, set on the day of – or referencing a saint – Sabina. Screenshot via DVDBeaver. DP: Viktor Růžička.

– You surely know that my financial support is unlimited.

– Yes. Long live your false cheque factories!

#FilmDuJour #October #OldřichLipský #MichalDočolomanský #EvelynaSteimarová #JanHartl #JanŠvankmajer #RudolfHrušínský #LubošFišer #ViktorRůžička #SciFi #fantasy #comedy #JulesVerne #Carpathians #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tajemstvi-hradu-v-karpatech-1981 Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0100 Zahrada [The Garden] (Jan Švankmajer, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/zahrada-1968 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Zahrada [The Garden] (Jan Švankmajer, 1968)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 25/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Zahrada (1968)/div div class="caption" Jiří Hálek and Luděk Kopřiva as Josef and Frank. DP: Svatopluk Malý./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #JanŠvankmajer #JiříHálek #LuděkKopřiva #ZdeněkLiška #SvatoplukMalý #ShortFilm #surrealism #rabbits #animals #satire #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Zahrada [The Garden] (Jan Švankmajer, 1968)

Oct

25

Zahrada (1968)

Jiří Hálek and Luděk Kopřiva as Josef and Frank. DP: Svatopluk Malý.

#FilmDuJour #October #JanŠvankmajer #JiříHálek #LuděkKopřiva #ZdeněkLiška #SvatoplukMalý #ShortFilm #surrealism #rabbits #animals #satire #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/zahrada-1968 Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0200 Kladivo na čarodějnice [Witchhammer] (Otakar Vávra, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wsnz <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Kladivo na čarodějnice [Witchhammer] (Otakar Vávra, 1970)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="occasion" apples/div div class="img" Kladivo na čarodějnice (1970).png)/div div class="caption" A woman in a tub lustfully bites into an apple, presented to her by a giddy maid. A second maid replenishes the bathwater. DP: Josef Illík./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #apples #fruit #OtakarVávra #VáclavKaplický #EloRomančík #VladimírŠmeral #SoňaValentová #JosefKemr #LolaSkrbková #JiřinaŠtěpničková #JiříSrnka #JosefIllík #drama #history #Hooptober #witches #religion #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Kladivo na čarodějnice [Witchhammer] (Otakar Vávra, 1970)

Oct

19

apples

Kladivo na čarodějnice (1970)

A woman in a tub lustfully bites into an apple, presented to her by a giddy maid. A second maid replenishes the bathwater. DP: Josef Illík.

 

#FilmDinner #apples #fruit #OtakarVávra #VáclavKaplický #EloRomančík #VladimírŠmeral #SoňaValentová #JosefKemr #LolaSkrbková #JiřinaŠtěpničková #JiříSrnka #JosefIllík #drama #history #Hooptober #witches #religion #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wsnz Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:10:41 +0200 Smrt si říká Engelchen [Death Is Called Engelchen] (Ján Kadár + Elmar Klos,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-021p <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Smrt si říká Engelchen [Death Is Called Engelchen] (Ján Kadár + Elmar Klos, 1963)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="occasion" ER – 1994/div div class="img" Smrt si říká Engelchen (1963)/div div class="caption" Pavel (Jan Kačer) recovering face-down in his hospital bed. DP: RudolfMilič./div div class="txt" An emergency room: ER) debuts on this date in 1994. &nbsp; A paralysed Czechoslovak partisan recovering from a shot in the back in an emergency ward, feverishly remembers the events that brought him to that moment. He particularly remembers Engelchen, the SS Sturmbannführer who killed his best friend and massacred the local villagers. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #ER #JánKadár #ElmarKlos #LadislavMňačko #JanKačer #EvaPoláková #MartinRůžek #BlaženaHolišová #PavelBártl #ZdeněkLiška #RudolfMilič #mirrors #drama #war #WW2 #revenge #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1960s/div /section ]]>

Smrt si říká Engelchen [Death Is Called Engelchen] (Ján Kadár + Elmar Klos, 1963)

Sep

19

ER – 1994

Smrt si říká Engelchen (1963)

Pavel (Jan Kačer) recovering face-down in his hospital bed. DP: RudolfMilič.

An emergency room: ER debuts on this date in 1994.

 

A paralysed Czechoslovak partisan recovering from a shot in the back in an emergency ward, feverishly remembers the events that brought him to that moment. He particularly remembers Engelchen, the SS Sturmbannführer who killed his best friend and massacred the local villagers.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #ER #JánKadár #ElmarKlos #LadislavMňačko #JanKačer #EvaPoláková #MartinRůžek #BlaženaHolišová #PavelBártl #ZdeněkLiška #RudolfMilič #mirrors #drama #war #WW2 #revenge #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-021p Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:30:00 +0200 Happy End (Oldřich Lipský, 1967) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yp53 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Happy End (Oldřich Lipský, 1967)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="occasion" 1889/div div class="img" Happy End (1967)/div div class="caption" Butcher Bedřich Frydrych (Oldřich Lipský), born September 1, 1889 in Trumberk. DP: Vladimír Novotný./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #September #OldřichLipský #VladimírMenšík #JaroslavaObermaierová #JosefAbrhám #BohušZáhorský #StellaZázvorková #VlastimilHála #VladimírNovotný #Movember #ČeskoslovenskáNováVlna #comedy #ExperimentalFilm #crime #romance #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Happy End (Oldřich Lipský, 1967)

Sep

1

1889

Happy End (1967)

Butcher Bedřich Frydrych (Oldřich Lipský), born September 1, 1889 in Trumberk. DP: Vladimír Novotný.

#FilmDuJour #September #OldřichLipský #VladimírMenšík #JaroslavaObermaierová #JosefAbrhám #BohušZáhorský #StellaZázvorková #VlastimilHála #VladimírNovotný #Movember #ČeskoslovenskáNováVlna #comedy #ExperimentalFilm #crime #romance #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yp53 Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Ovoce stromů rajských jíme [We Eat the Fruit of the Trees of Paradise] (Věra... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v87v <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ovoce stromů rajských jíme [We Eat the Fruit of the Trees of Paradise] (Věra Chytilová, 1970)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="occasion" orange/div div class="img" Ovoce stromů rajských jíme (1970)/div div class="caption" Eva (Jitka Novákova) devouring oranges under a black umbrella (via). DP: Jaroslav Kučera./div div class="txt" Orange, food or fashion "Tell me the truth!" ### – choir An allegorical, psychedelic retelling of Genesis 3 and the Fall of Man &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for August is not date-related but lists, for the most part, the colours of the rainbow./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #orange #colours #VěraChytilová #JitkaNovákova #KarelNovák #JanSchmid #EvaGabrielová #JuliusAlbert #ZdeněkLiška #JaroslavKučera #food #fruit #oranges #religion #fantasy #drama #Czechoslovakia #Belgium #1970s/div /section ]]>

Ovoce stromů rajských jíme [We Eat the Fruit of the Trees of Paradise] (Věra Chytilová, 1970)

Aug

6

orange

Ovoce stromů rajských jíme (1970)

Eva (Jitka Novákova) devouring oranges under a black umbrella (via). DP: Jaroslav Kučera.

Orange, food or fashion*

“Tell me the truth!”

– choir

An allegorical, psychedelic retelling of Genesis 3 and the Fall of Man

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #orange #colours #VěraChytilová #JitkaNovákova #KarelNovák #JanSchmid #EvaGabrielová #JuliusAlbert #ZdeněkLiška #JaroslavKučera #food #fruit #oranges #religion #fantasy #drama #Czechoslovakia #Belgium #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v87v Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0200 Sedmikrásky [Daisies] (Věra Chytilová, 1966) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wb1y <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Sedmikrásky [Daisies] (Věra Chytilová, 1966)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 25/div div class="occasion" a girls' night out/div div class="img" Sedmikrásky (1966)/div div class="caption" Marie I and Marie II (Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová respectively) having a heck of a time. DP: Jaroslav Kučera./div div class="txt" A girls' night out: women having fun on their own[???] Marie II: "But I'm happy." Marie I: "I'm so happy, too." Two young women called Marie pull destructive, anarchist pranks. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #GirlsNightOut #VěraChytilová #JitkaCerhová #IvanaKarbanová #JiříŠust #JiříŠlitr #JaroslavKučera #satire #comedy #pranks #anarchy #Czechoslovakia #1960s/div /section ]]>

Sedmikrásky [Daisies] (Věra Chytilová, 1966)

Jul

25

a girls' night out

Sedmikrásky (1966)

Marie I and Marie II (Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová respectively) having a heck of a time. DP: Jaroslav Kučera.

A girls' night out: women having fun on their own[???]*

Marie II: “But I'm happy.” Marie I: “I'm so happy, too.”

Two young women called Marie pull destructive, anarchist pranks.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #GirlsNightOut #VěraChytilová #JitkaCerhová #IvanaKarbanová #JiříŠust #JiříŠlitr #JaroslavKučera #satire #comedy #pranks #anarchy #Czechoslovakia #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wb1y Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0200 Vysoká zeď [The High Wall] (Karel Kachyňa, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ys1r <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Vysoká zeď [The High Wall] (Karel Kachyňa, 1964)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 23/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Vysoká zeď (1964)/div div class="caption" The young man (Vít Olmer) rests in the sun with Jitka (Radka Dulíková) observing him. DP: Josef Vaniš./div div class="txt" Someone is in an ambulance or hospital "We still remember our high wall. Even the day we first climbed it, filled with curiosity. The sadness of the discoveries of those years seemed devastating to us. Then we wondered how we could have forgotten it so suddenly." ### – prologue It's summer in Prague. Jitka, a girl on the cusp of womanhood, follows a stray cat and finds a tall hospital wall. Behind it, a young man in a wheelchair rests. The girl and the man connect. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #KarelKachyňa #RadkaDulíková #VítOlmer #HelenaKružíková #JanNovák #JosefVaniš #ComingOfAge #drama #romance #Prague #Czechoslovakia #1960s/div /section ]]>

Vysoká zeď [The High Wall] (Karel Kachyňa, 1964)

Jul

23

Vysoká zeď (1964)

The young man (Vít Olmer) rests in the sun with Jitka (Radka Dulíková) observing him. DP: Josef Vaniš.

Someone is in an ambulance or hospital*

“We still remember our high wall. Even the day we first climbed it, filled with curiosity. The sadness of the discoveries of those years seemed devastating to us. Then we wondered how we could have forgotten it so suddenly.”

– prologue

It's summer in Prague. Jitka, a girl on the cusp of womanhood, follows a stray cat and finds a tall hospital wall. Behind it, a young man in a wheelchair rests. The girl and the man connect.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #KarelKachyňa #RadkaDulíková #VítOlmer #HelenaKružíková #JanNovák #JosefVaniš #ComingOfAge #drama #romance #Prague #Czechoslovakia #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ys1r Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0200 Ucho [The Ear] (Karel Kachyňa, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ucho-1970 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ucho [The Ear] (Karel Kachyňa, 1970)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Ucho (1970)/div div class="caption" Party member, and rather drunk, Anna (Jiřina Bohdalová) and her newspaper hat at the officials' party. DP: Josef Illík./div div class="txt" "The 17th of July. Comrade Anna is not lying!" ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #KarelKachyňa #RadoslavBrzobohatý #JiřinaBohdalová #SvatoplukHavelka #JosefIllík #ČeskoslovenskáNováVlna #drama #satire #paranoia #politics #Czechoslovakia #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Ucho [The Ear] (Karel Kachyňa, 1970)

Jul

17

Ucho (1970)

Party member, and rather drunk, Anna (Jiřina Bohdalová) and her newspaper hat at the officials' party. DP: Josef Illík.

“The 17th of July. Comrade Anna is not lying!”

#FilmDuJour #July #KarelKachyňa #RadoslavBrzobohatý #JiřinaBohdalová #SvatoplukHavelka #JosefIllík #ČeskoslovenskáNováVlna #drama #satire #paranoia #politics #Czechoslovakia #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ucho-1970 Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0200