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1931-1950

Jiri Trnka's animated feature film Bajaja (The Princess Bayaya), based on an old folk tale, is released. [MORE] [ADD]

Czechoslovakia 1951: Other Films of Note

The Gingerbread Cottage (Bretislav Pojar) [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

Pysná princezna (Borivoj Zeman) [MORE] [ADD]

The Kidnapping (Ján Kádar, Elmar Klos) [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

Cesta do praveku (Karel Zeman, Fred Ladd) [MORE] [ADD}

– Alfred Radok’s Lanterna Magika concept, a combination of film, ballet, shadow play and pantomime, has its premiere at the World Expo Exhibition in Brussels.  [MORE] [ADD]

Vera Chytilova begins filming Strop. [MORE] [ADD]

Jiri Trnka begins filming the puppet film Kyberneticka Babicka (Cybernetic Grandma). [MORE] [ADD]

A press preview of Vera Chytilova's first full-length film O Necem Jinem (Something Else) is held in Prague. [MORE] [ADD]

Cerny Petr, Milos Forman’s first full-length feature, is released. [MORE] [ADD]

Démanty noci (Diamonds in the Night) (Jan Nemec) [MORE] [ADD]

Fádní odpoledne (A Boring Afternoon) (Ivan Passer) [MORE] [ADD]

Kazdy den odvahu (Courage for Every Day) (Ewald Schorm) [MORE] [ADD]

Milos Forman’s second film, Lasky Jedne Plavovlasky (Loves of a Blonde), is released. [MORE] [ADD]

– Jan Kadar’s Obchod na korzu (The Shop on Main Street) is released.   Veteran actress Ida Kaminska stars opposite Jozef Kroner as the Jewish proprietress of a button shop which comes under the management of an Aryan controller when the country is under Nazi occupation. [MORE] [ADD]

Zlocin v dívcí skole (Crime in a Girls School) (Jirí Menzel) [MORE] [ADD]

28-year-old Jiri Menzel’s Ostre sledované vlaky (Closely Observed Trains) is released to public and critical acclaim. [MORE] [ADD]

Intimní osvětlení (Intimate Lighting) (Ivan Passer) [MORE] [ADD]

Návrat ztraceného syna (The Return of the Prodigal Son) (Ewald Schorm) [MORE] [ADD]

O slavnosti a hostech (The Party and the Guests) (Jan Nemec) [MORE] [ADD]

Perlicky na dne (Pearls of the Deep) (Vera Chytilová, Jaromil Jires, Jirí Menzel, Jan Nemec, Evald Schorm) [MORE] [ADD]

Sedmikrásky (The Daisies) (Vera Chytilová) [MORE] [ADD]

– Kinoautomat, the world’s first interactive film, is shown for the first time at the Czechoslovak Pavilion at the Expo ‚67 Montreal. The audience is given control of the outcome of the film One Man and His House, starring Miroslav Hornicek by being given options at several key moments.  [MORE] [ADD]

Hoří, má panenko (The Firemen’s Ball) (Milos Forman) [MORE] [ADD]

Markéta Lazárová (František Vlačil) [MORE] [ADD]

Rozmarné léto (Capricious Summer) (Jirí Menzel) [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

Spalovač mrtvol (The Cremator) (Juraj Herz) [MORE] [ADD]

Vsichni dobrí rodáci (All My Good Countrymen) (Vojtech Jasny) [MORE] [ADD]

Jiri Trnka, producer of puppet films from the forties to the mid-sixties dies after a long illness at the age of 57. [MORE] [ADD]

– The comparative freedom of expression recently enjoyed by filmmakers draws to a close following the deployment of troops in Prague. Milos Forman remains in Paris after he and fellow director Jiri Menzel are warned about depicting unfavourable conditions of the working class.  [MORE] [ADD]

Czechoslovakia 1969: Other Films of Note

Ecce Homo Homolka (Behold Homolka) (Jaroslav Papoušek) [MORE] [ADD]

Kladivo na čarodějnice (Witches‘ Hammer) (Otakar Vavra) [MORE] [ADD]

Larks On A String (Jiri Menzel) [MORE] [ADD]

Vtackovia, siroty a blazni (Birds, Orphans and Fools) (Juraj Jakubisko) [MORE] [ADD]

Zert (The Joke) (Jaromil Jires) [MORE] [ADD]

Films of Note

Ucho (The Ear) (Karel Kachyna) [MORE] [ADD]

Uz zase skácu pres kaluze (Jumping Over Puddles Again) (Karel Kachyna) [MORE] [ADD]