Pohádky z mechu a kapradí 3

cover image Barcode: 58945857 Call Number: V-CZE 006 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 60 min. Language: Czech Creator: Directed by Zdenek Smetana Description: Animation TV Series Collection: Language Resource Center

Postriziny = Shortcuts

cover image Barcode: 58945858 Call Number: V-CZE 007 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 93 min. Language: Czech Creator: Directed by Jirí Menzel Description: An evocation of the childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal in his provincial town of Nymburk, dominated by the local brewery. Collection: Language Resource Center

Projevy

cover image Barcode: 58962017 Call Number: FR-CZE Hav Material Type: Print Language: Czech Creator: Václav Havel Collection: Language Resource Center

Rok Dabla = Year of the Devil

cover image Barcode: 58947650 Call Number: V-CZE 017 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 88 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Czech Creator: Directed by Petr Zelenka Description: Petr Zelenka directs Year of the Devil, a comedic music mockumentary starring real-life Czech folk-rocker Jarek Nohavica as a fictionalized version of himself. In order to cure his alcoholism and in search of spiritual redemption, Nohavica goes on tour with a funeral band called Cechomor (Czech-Moravian Musical Society). His longtime friend and guitarist Karel Plihal accompanies them for theraputic reasons of his own. British punk and classical musician Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke makes an ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Rozmarné léto = Capricious Summer

cover image Barcode: 58945798 Call Number: V-CZE 004 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 74 min. Language: Czech, Slovak Creator: Directed by Jirí Menzel Description: Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Samotári = Loners

cover image Barcode: 58945859 Call Number: V-CZE 008 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 103 min. System Requirements: Region 9 DVD Region: Language: Czech Creator: Directed by David Ondrícek Description: Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of matchmaker and occasionally helps to put together some of his friends. He helps to separate his friend Hanka from Peter, an announcer for an independent radio station who tries to capture "real" life by recording the moments from "reality" and playing them over the air. Vesna, came to ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Sedmikrásky = Daisies

cover image Barcode: 58957528 Call Number: DV-CZE 021 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 75 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Czech Creator: Directed by Věra Chytilová Description: Described as the perfect 60's Czech new wave film with a leaning towards a revival of Dadaism, this film presents the story of two teenage girls in a light nonsensical way. The girls decide that since the world is spoiled, they must be spoiled, too, and embark on a series of pranks which eventually leads to mass destruction. Collection: Language Resource Center

Sedmikrásky = Daisies

cover image Barcode: 58958321 Call Number: V-CZE 021 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 75 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Czech Creator: Directed by Věra Chytilová Description: Described as the perfect 60's Czech new wave film with a leaning towards a revival of Dadaism, this film presents the story of two teenage girls in a light nonsensical way. The girls decide that since the world is spoiled, they must be spoiled, too, and embark on a series of pranks which eventually leads to mass destruction. Collection: Language Resource Center

Skrivanci Na Niti = Larks on a String

cover image Barcode: 58947644 Call Number: V-CZE 014 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 91 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Czech Creator: Directed by Jirí Menzel Description: Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Collection: Language Resource Center

Slavnosti snezenek = The Snowdrop Festival

cover image Barcode: 58947643 Call Number: V-CZE 013 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 83 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Czech Creator: Directed by Jirí Menzel Description: This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants of Kersko (Kersko is a small woody area full of cottages and roods). These people are both simple and sensitive, they have their own pleasures (e.g. Leli is a collector of cheap, but inutile things) and the greatest delight of all of them is a hunting. Crude poetics of amateur hunting is screened by ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Starci na chmelu = The Hop Pickers

cover image Barcode: 58947646 Call Number: V-CZE 016 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 88 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Czech Creator: Directed by Ladislav Rychman Description: LOVE HARVESTS IN SUMMER seems to anticipate 4 years the wrongful intrusion of the soviet tanks. And with the style of WEST SIDE STORY, puts music, color and emotion surrounding the born of a mate, first love in a youngs school, quite outdated and square. The movie ends better than "WEST SIDE" and even better than the sad czechoslovakian story. The scenes of the hops harvest to make the famous czech beer, the sky ever blue and all the conflict and debate that emerge in the czech society ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Superchameleon: Iva Bittova and bang on a can all stars

Barcode: 58947655 Call Number: V-CZE 020 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 90 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Czech Description: There has already been written enough on Iva Bittová, on her multi-genre music or talent, her success in the country and abroad. And again Iva Bittová can surprise us by something new. All this is included in her new DVD, called Superchameleon. The first DVD of Iva Bittova contains, as the title is already suggesting, very various material. DVD can be divided into three parts. The basis is a ninety-minute exceptional concert with the ensemble of contemporary music from New York called Bang ... Collection: Language Resource Center

The Joke = Zert

cover image Barcode: 58947157 Call Number: V-CZE 012 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 80 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Czech Creator: Directed by Jaromil Jires Description: In the 1950's, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Painted Bird

cover image Barcode: 58965681 Material Type: Video -Digital Language: Czech AND Russian AND German Creator: Directed by Václav Marhoul Description: "In an unidentified area of war-torn Eastern Europe, a young boy lives with his elderly aunt. Startled at her death, the boy accidentally sets the house ablaze and leaves. His further adventures are a series of horrific encounters with ignorance, exploitation, and depravity. In the first village he reaches, an old healer buys him, but he is later blamed for bad luck and thrown in a river. He is next taken in by a miller and his wife. After the miller gouges out the eyes of a younger man ...

Tmavomodrý svět = Dark Blue World

cover image Barcode: 58945865 Call Number: V-CZE 010E Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 112 min. System Requirements: PAL DVD Region: Language: Czech Creator: Directed by Jan Sverák Description: The friendship of two men becomes tested when they both fall for the same woman. Rating Audience (Video Only): R Collection: Language Resource Center

Tri generacie - Three generations

Barcode: 58949601 Call Number: L-SC08 Material Type: Video -VHS System Requirements: PAL Language: Czech, Slovak Creator: Rudolf Schuster Description: An account of an Eastern European expedition to jungles of Native America. Brazil expeditions. Collection: Language Resource Center

Tri Veterani = Three Veterans

cover image Barcode: 58947651 Call Number: V-CZE 018 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 93 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Czech Creator: Directed by Oldrich Lipsky Description: It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers. Each of the veterans is given a magic item - one gets magic harp that provides him with servants by wish, other one endless pouch of gold and the last one owns magic hat that can create all the staff excluding money and people. These three guys travel, enjoy their newly acquired treasures until the time when Bumbac fells in love when he ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders = Valerie a týden divu

cover image Barcode: 58957658 Call Number: V-CZE 029 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 73 min. Language: Czech Creator: Directed by Jaromil Jires Description: "Inspired by fairy-tales such as Alice in Wonderland and Little Red-Riding Hood, "Valerie and her Week of Wonders" is a surreal tale in which love, fear, sex and religion merge into one fantastic world." - IMDB Collection: Language Resource Center

Velky cesko-anglicky slovnik - Czech-English Dictionary

Edition: 3rd ed. Barcode: 58947676 Material Type: Print Language: Czech, English Collection: Language Resource Center

Voices from the Shadow; Jazz Psalms

Barcode: 58962638 Call Number: Salinger Music Material Type: Audio -CD Language: Czech, English, French, German, Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew Creator: Gershon Kingsley Description: Milken Archive of American Jewish Music Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

Zelary

cover image Barcode: 58954654 Call Number: V-CZE 026 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 148 min. Language: Czech Creator: Directed by Ondrej Trojan Description: Two very different people meet and fall in love in "Zelary," the Oscar-nominated (Best Foreign Language Film, 2003) romantic epic from director Ondrej Trojan. Eliska, a sophisticated medical student, first meets Joza at a Prague hospital, where her blood saves the injured sawmill worker's life. But Eliska also works with the Czech resistance and when she's betrayed to the Gestapo, Joza agrees to hide the young woman in his romote mountain village of Zelary. Forced to marry ... Collection: Language Resource Center