Jan Daňhel Movies

A Czech high diver's Olympic dreams are shattered when she suffers a devastating injury while training. Forced to leave the sport she loves, she...

The film follows the fate of the real inhabitants of the former German village of Vitín. The central character of the film is Otto Hille, who...

Michal and Juraj, two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia, must decide if they'll choose the easier way of...

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...

A naive tale about the ruthless cruelty of our existence, about a crocodile and how it all turned out well.

A portrait of a small Moravian village and its quirky inhabitants.

Martina is 18, loves dancing and goes by a nick name Shakira. Also, today she is leaving an orphanage...

When not serving regulars at a pub in the middle of a sleepy northern Moravian village, thirtysomething Maruna spends time with hesitant Jura and...

After her husband's death, Hana lives on alone in the family villa. Her two sons visit her with their families, but these visits frequently end in...

Adam Oĺha's father, a well-known Slovak educator and filmmaker, decided to leave his wife and six children and start anew after years of living...

A very free adaptation of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus", Goethe's "Faust" and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to...

The Toilet as a Place of Encounter with the World and with Oneself. A documentary reflection by Jan Gogola Jr. A meditation on the toilet as more...

A doc presenting portraits of four people unafraid to reveal their particular lifelong penchant for sadomasochistic practices: Altair, whose...

Six Prague residents pursue bizarre rituals. Mr. Peony builds a chicken costume to wear while enacting homicidal fantasies toward neighbor Mrs....

A pig farm in Lety, South Bohemia would make an ideal monument to collaboration and indifference, says writer and journalist Markus Pape. Most of...

“Most prisoners like boxes.” The constrained nature of prisons opens up an infinitude of fantasies and free artistic expression....

After years together, Petr and Hana, partners in work and in life, share their unspoken erotic fantasies. What begins as an innocent conversation...

Behind the curtain of the film strip the concreteness of images appears and disappears again with varying levels of visuals shifts and deformations....

A gifted and well-qualified young teacher takes a job teaching natural sciences at a grammar school in the country. Here he makes the acquaintance of...