Ján Kadár

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most...

In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned...

Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.

In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned...

A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.

Strong-willed peasant girl Katka disobeys her father and heads to the city to work in a factory, where no one knows quite what to make of her.

A fisherman saves Anada, a woman adrift, from drowning. He takes her to his home, and protects her. Eventually, she occupies a larger place than was...

Pavel is a Czech partisan fighter in the waning days of the war. Just as peace is declared, Pavel is shot in the spine and sent to the hospital...

Pavel is a Czech partisan fighter in the waning days of the war. Just as peace is declared, Pavel is shot in the spine and sent to the hospital...

Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out....

Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.

Strong-willed peasant girl Katka disobeys her father and heads to the city to work in a factory, where no one knows quite what to make of her.

A film of the Czech multimedia theatre production, Magician's Lantern

A film of the Czech multimedia theatre production, Magician's Lantern

Several bittersweet stories set in a Prague apartment building.

Documentary by Jan Kadar

Documentary by Jan Kadar

Nebraska in the 1880's: bleak, lonely, and far from what you'd expect The Wild West to be. But for a naive Swedish immigrant, the frontier parlor of...

A disturbed, but highly intelligent man is sent to a criminally insane hospital to serve time and rehabilitate. But when he arrives, he discovers...

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate...

Based on a true story

Based on a true story

Based on a true story

A film dedicated to the reconstruction of a country devastated by war, its building enthusiasm, and faith in a better future.

The Slovak National Uprising, as the purgatory of a compromised nation in Ján Kadár’s accounting film.

Post-war cinematic reckoning with People’s Fascism and its representatives.