Movies: Boris Halmi

  • 1981
    Run, Waiter, Run!

    Run, Waiter, Run! (1981)

    Run, Waiter, Run!

    7.11981HD

    A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and collecting cash from unsuspecting diners....

    Run, Waiter, Run!
  • 1989
    Time of the Servants

    Time of the Servants (1989)

    Time of the Servants

    4.81989HD

    Dana is young medical student with no self esteem, she can't deal with life, people and even not with herself. After her boyfriend leaves her, she changes to selfish woman, manipulating people and making them to serve her. She plays with her husband,...

    Time of the Servants
  • 1981
    Blob to the Fairytale

    Blob to the Fairytale (1981)

    Blob to the Fairytale

    51981HD

    Little Vendulka receives a birthday gift of a seemingly innocuous children's book. Little she knows that the book is actually a portal into the surreal world of nursery rhymes and Josef Lada's paintings....

    Blob to the Fairytale
  • 1991
    Vyžilý Boudník

    Vyžilý Boudník (1991)

    Vyžilý Boudník

    51991HD

    Two inseparable friends, Vyžilý and Boudník, a village self-made talent and a not-so-successful professional theatre actor, want to make a living as entertainers. But they are running up against both the ceiling of their abilities and the disfavour o...

    Vyžilý Boudník
  • 1980
    Housata

    Housata (1980)

    Housata

    61980HD

    A sensitively told story about the first hopes of love and harsh disappointments, about tender and impenetrable girls, but also about those who are characterized by ruthlessness, takes place at a girls' boarding school......

    Housata
  • 1978
    Proč nevěřit na zázraky

    Proč nevěřit na zázraky (1978)

    Proč nevěřit na zázraky

    01978HD

    Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it is a twelve-year-old village boy who experiences dangerous situations with retreating Nazi troops in picturesque South Bohemia... Any attempt to achie...

    Proč nevěřit na zázraky
  • 1984
    Evo, vdej se!

    Evo, vdej se! (1984)

    Evo, vdej se!

    101984HD

    A bitterly funny look at the beginning of a young teacher's career, based on Halina Pawlowska's first screenplay, which she wrote while still a student....

    Evo, vdej se!
  • 1987
    Etudes for Piano Students

    Etudes for Piano Students (1987)

    Etudes for Piano Students

    01987HD

    Films for children gradually fell into the grip of expressive and content sterility, succumbing to exhortative, educational tendencies. This is also the case in the story of a 14-year-old girl who has been accepted to the conservatory, but a sudden a...

    Etudes for Piano Students
  • 1981
    The Hit

    The Hit (1981)

    The Hit

    7.41981HD

    Mr Jiš managed to give his first script at Barrandov. Already in the preparatory phase, he discovers with horror that the filmmakers have completely bypassed his intention - instead of a probe into the life of a contemporary village, they are prepari...

    The Hit
  • 1987
    Why?

    Why? (1987)

    Why?

    6.51987HD

    Why? (Czech: Proč?) is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Smyczek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. The film deals with the hooliganism in Czechoslovakia, particularly with the fans of f...

    Why?
  • 1977
    Flying Saucers Over Our Village

    Flying Saucers Over Our Village (1977)

    Flying Saucers Over Our Village

    4.51977HD

    A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer....

    Flying Saucers Over Our Village
  • 1982
    Attention, Rounds!

    Attention, Rounds! (1982)

    Attention, Rounds!

    6.81982HD

    A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital....

    Attention, Rounds!
  • 1975
    The Motive for Murder

    The Motive for Murder (1975)

    The Motive for Murder

    3.51975HD

    A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", Karas kills a woman he raped some time ago in order to silence her. However, he accidentally kills another woman. In "Hostages", a drug addict, Chaban,...

    The Motive for Murder
  • 1988
    How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives

    How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives (1988)

    How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives

    6.31988HD

    While Kendy returns to his hometown as an assistant director to film a thirteen-part series with a television crew, Štěpán Šafránek, equipped with his mother's advice after graduation, takes up his first position - as an intern at the local hospital....

    How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives
  • 1989
    Piloti

    Piloti (1989)

    Piloti

    01989HD

    Further east of the Dark Blue Sky, where the Heavenly Horsemen fought, the story of a Czechoslovakian fighter squadron takes place, to which Second Lieutenant Jandak arrives as a rookie. He then experiences both his first love and a battle high above...

    Piloti
  • 1978
    Nechci nic slyšet

    Nechci nic slyšet (1978)

    Nechci nic slyšet

    5.51978HD

    An 11-year-old boy is the only survivor of a tragic car accident in which both parents are killed. It's not until he meets a travelling student theatre company that he is able to shake off the long-term shock......

    Nechci nic slyšet
  • 1988
    Pravidla kruhu

    Pravidla kruhu (1988)

    Pravidla kruhu

    01988HD

    In the second half of the 1980s, so-called critical films began to emerge, but they were afraid to make a sharper statement, moving on the basis of an engaged morality that wanted to improve the existing conditions cosmetically at best. The theme of ...

    Pravidla kruhu
  • 1978
    Zlaté rybky

    Zlaté rybky (1978)

    Zlaté rybky

    01978HD

    Police discover Eva Nejtková dead in her apartment and her husband Zdeněk unconscious from a shotgun wound. Captain Hora leads the investigation, noting that the killer struck Eva fatally and shattered her large aquarium, yet carefully transferred th...

    Zlaté rybky
  • 1980
    Hon na kočku

    Hon na kočku (1980)

    Hon na kočku

    11980HD

    Bláža is a bland-looking student who is eager for her first love experience. Even though experienced men are interested in her, she doesn't yet know exactly what her chosen one should look like. The question is, however, whether a shy non-junkie who ...

    Hon na kočku
  • 1983
    Snowdrops and Aces

    Snowdrops and Aces (1983)

    Snowdrops and Aces

    5.91983HD

    A quarter century after the release of the original film, this sequel brings us a drama about platonic love, life retrospective and memories. Former schoolmates meet again in the mountains and it turns out they have not changed much. Even though so m...

    Snowdrops and Aces