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Ostře sledované vlaky = Closely watched trains by Jiří Menzel( Visual )

18 editions published between 1966 and 2014 in Czech and Slovak and held by 1,099 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher's apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot. Wry and tender, Academy Award-winning Closely Watched Trains is a masterpiece of human observation and one of the best-loved films of the Czech New Wave

Obchod na korze by Ján Kadár( Visual )

22 editions published between 1965 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 1,048 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Set in 1942, story of a funny and touching relationship between an elderly Jewish shopkeeper and her Nazi-appointed "Aryan controller," Tono. When the Jews are ordered deported, Tono tries to shield her from the Nazis

Lásky jedné plavovlásky = Loves of a blond by Miloš Forman( Visual )

17 editions published between 1966 and 2006 in Czech and held by 652 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Story of a young woman who like her friends is very concerned with men and love. A reserve army group comes into town and she falls in love with a pianist, who after swearing eternal love leaves for his home

Hoří, má panenko = The firemen's ball by Miloš Forman( Visual )

15 editions published between 1967 and 2007 in Czech and English and held by 626 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In a small provincial town, arrangements and events surrounding the firemen's annual ball, honoring a retiring firechief, go wrong at every turn

Underground by Emir Kusturica( Visual )

11 editions published between 1998 and 2012 in Serbian and Italian and held by 500 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A tragicomedy about love, friendship, betrayal, manipulation and lies. Deals with the conflicts of Yugoslav history of the past fifty years. The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during WWII. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they become suspicious, and break out of their underground "shelter"--Only to convince themselves that the guy was right: the war is still going on

Sedmikrasky = Daisies by Věra Chytilová( Visual )

21 editions published between 1966 and 2016 in Czech and held by 471 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Two teenage girls decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them

Jakob the Liar by Frank Beyer( Visual )

13 editions published between 1998 and 2008 in German and held by 465 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other jews, facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at Gestpo headquarters. Eavesdropping he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. In order to be believed, he feigns access to a hidden, strictly forbidden radio. Quickly he becomes a one-man bulwark against despair, a reluctant hero, but a tragic figure still, a man ultimately powerless to see or change the fate of his people

Želary( Visual )

5 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in Czech and held by 443 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

During WWII, nurse Eliška is part of a secret resistance movement with her lover, surgeon Richard. When he is discovered, she is forced to leave the hospital in order to hide from the Nazis as well. A sympathetic colleague sends her off with a patient whose life she saved, to the remote Moravian mountain village of Želary, where time has stopped, as he has agreed to hide her as his wife. They live in a modest cabin for two years, waiting for the Nazi occupation to end and begin to form a bond despite their differences

Marketa Lazarová by František Vláčil( Visual )

8 editions published between 1967 and 2014 in Czech and German and held by 430 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and Pagansim, humankind and nature, and love and violence

Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále = I served the king of England by Jiří Menzel( Visual )

5 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in Czech and held by 411 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A young restaurant worker does whatever it takes to become a millionaire, only to realize that by accomplishing his goal he has wound up in prison