The Czechs, or the Czech people, are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.
Czech cinema is the name for cinematography of Czech Republic, as well as the Czech cinematography while it was a part of other countries.
Pérák, the Spring Man, was an urban legend originating from the Czechoslovak city of Prague during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in the midst of World War II. In the decades following the war, Pérák has also been portrayed as a Czech superhero.
Goat Story - The Old Prague Legends is a 2008 Czech animated fantasy comedy film produced and directed by Jan Tománek and written by Tománek with David Sláma. The first Czech-produced feature-length computer-animated film, it features animation by Art And Animation studios, and was released May 19, 2010 in the USA.
Up and Down is a 2004 Czech comedy film directed by Jan Hřebejk. The film first premiered in France at the Cannes Film Market on May 19, 2004.
Wrong Side Up is a 2005 Czech comedy-drama film written and directed by Petr Zelenka. It is an adaptation of Zelenka's play Tales of Common Insanity. It is a tale of people showing their internal loneliness by their choices in life. It was entered into the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.
HC Dukla Prague is a handball club from Prague, Czech Republic, that plays in the Chance Extraliga.
Gympl is a Czech comedy film directed by Tomáš Vorel. It was released in 2007.
An Earthly Paradise For The Eyes is an English title for the Czech comedy film Zemský ráj to na pohled, directed by Irena Pavlásková and released in 2009. It portrays the adventures of a dissident family and their friends while under observation by pro-Soviet secret police in Prague between 1968 and 1977, during the country's period of "normalization"—forced revocation of the legislation and customs of the reform period led by Alexander Dubček.
Leaving is a 2011 Czech drama film written and directed by Václav Havel, based on his play of the same name, an absurdist look at the life of an ex-politician. The film received two Czech Lion awards.
Jiří Macháček is a Czech actor and singer.
Jiří Krejčík was a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor.
Za volantem nepřítel is a 1974 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Steklý.
Anthropoid is a 2016 war film directed by Sean Ellis and starring Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Charlotte Le Bon, Anna Geislerová, Harry Lloyd, Toby Jones and Marcin Dorocinski, It was written by Ellis and Anthony Frewin. It tells the story of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by exiled Czechoslovak soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš on 27 May 1942. It was released on 12 August 2016 in the United States and 9 September 2016 in the United Kingdom.
Colette, also released under the name Prisoner of Auschwitz, is a 2013 English language Czech-Slovak-Dutch war film written and directed by Milan Cieslar and starring Jirí Mádl and Clémence Thioly. It is set in World War II and based on the Arnošt Lustig book, A girl from Antwerp.
Vladimír Smutný is a Czech cinematographer. He is an eight-time winner of the Czech Lion Award for Best Cinematography. He was also a cinematographer of Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film winner Kolya (1996).
Antonie Formanová is a Czech actress. She starred in Dukla 61.
Guru is a 2022 three-part drama television series developed and produced by Dramedy Productions. The authors of the project Jan Coufal, Filip Bobiňski and Petr Šizling entrusted Jan Coufal's script to director Biser Arichtev. The series was filmed under the Voyo Original brand and published on the Voyo platform. After the series The Roubal Case, it is the second series filmed under the banner Voyo Original.
Bohéma is a Czech historical drama television series about film stars of the First Republic during and after the Second World War, more precisely in a period 1938–1953. The first episode was watched by over one million viewers, but some historians and relatives of depicted characters pointed out some inaccuracies.
