Saving One Who Was Dead

The father falls into a coma. The mother and son silently concentrate all their powers. They meekly accept the diagnosis but resist the verdict. Yet they reject an open conflict because the life thread is so taut that co

From the House of the Dead

Condensing the life stories – memories of prison in Silesia – related by Dostoyevsky in his work The House of the Dead, Leoš Janáček composed an opera filled with burning desire and longing. Contagious savagery, cruelty

Five Dead Adresses

A contemporary drama about a woman at a turning point in life, too old to start life all over, but young enough not to decide to try. After a failed marriage abroad, childless and with unfulfilled expectations, Melisa re

O mrtvých jen dobře

Long Gone

Grigorij, a cynical truck driver, gets into a dangerous car accident and wakes up in the small town of Nehaj, whose locals believe him to be a legendary war hero who went missing in action during WW2. Grigorij tries to p

Into Oblivion

Stalin grasps a pencil in his hand as he prepares to draw a line on a map of the Soviet Union. Where the graphite touches paper, some 80,000 people— almost all of them Gulag inmates— will build a railroad in the gruellin

Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song

Ten-year-old Ida believes that the mysterious angelic singing resounding across the village graveyard is the only thing keeping her beloved Grandma alive. So she decides to join the school choir-even though she is absolu

The Living and the Dead

Crne Vode, Western Bosnia, 1993. Whilst being cornered on all sides by Serbian and Bosniak forces, a small squad of Croatian soldiers stars experiancing strange phenomena in the form of spectral apparitions from the past

Happy Day of the Dead

Zeko and Gogi, two stereotypical criminals, have to get rid of a corpse on November 1. What seems like a routine task turns out to be much more difficult, especially when a veterinarian, a butcher, and a prostitute get i

The Dead Don't Sing

A two-part television film based on the novel of the same name by Rudolf Jašík, depicting a realistic picture of life and interpersonal relationships during World War II in the mixed Slovak-German environment of the town

Mŕtvi učia živých

Dead Man Doesn't Hiccup

A woman is in front of a tribunal and pleads about her case, but her assigned defendant lawyer hasn't showed up. She is also hiccupping since her husband died in a war. The trial gets more absurd as new characters come i

Mrtvý student, který se nikdy nenarodil

Mrtvá královna aneb Jak se zabíjejí ženy

Pomsta mŕtvych rýb

Awakening from the Dead

The story takes place at the beginning of the bombing, both in Belgrade and in one small town in Serbia, at the end of March 1999. Forty-year-old Mickey, an unaccomplished writer, a disillusioned assistant professor at t

Prvá noc pri mŕtvej

Television adaptation of a short story by Czech journalist and novelist Jakub Arbes. The depiction of love and death brings a suggestive story about jealousy, a destructive passion that becomes self-destructive as well.

Absolutely Dead

An experimental work about the association APSOLUTNO conducting an investigation into the deaths of two transoceanic liners under suspicious circumstances.

Fine Dead Girls

Iva and Marija, a young lesbian couple, rent an apartment in Zagreb, in a building that seems to provide a quiet and safe environment for their love, but over time the atmosphere in the building becomes more and more thr

Jan Hus - mse za tri mrtvé muze

Jan Hus - A Mass for Three Dead Men tries to recover the legacy of the medieval reformist priest Jan Hus who was burnt to death by inquisition for his criticism and calling for reformation of the Catholic Church in 1415.