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The compelling 2022 Czech drama film Where Butterflies Don’t Fly stars Daniel Krejcík as a misfit gay teenager and Jirí Vojta as his closeted gay teacher, who get trapped together in a cave complex on […]
Elia Kazan’s 1953 film Man on a Tightrope stars Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame and Cameron Mitchell, who are first rate in this moody tale of Czech circus folk trying to make a break […]
Writer-director Ian Sellar’s 1992 British drama film Prague stars Alan Cumming, Sandrine Bonnaire and Bruno Ganz. Alan Cumming plays Alexander Novak, a young Scotsman who comes to Prague to find 1940s newsreel film of his […]
Writer-producer-director Charles Martin’s 1956 film Death of a Scoundrel stars George Sanders as scoundrel Euro-conman Clementi Sabourin (‘our plan is to buy companies that are in financial trouble and then build them up’), who steps […]
Co-writer/ director/ star Jiri Menzel’s 1968 Czech film Capricious Summer [Rozmarné léto] delivers a diverting, well-characterised, sadness-tinged comedy mistily and delicately set in the past. Menzel plays the tightrope balancer Arnostek and Jana Drchalová [Jana […]
Director Douglas Sirk’s 1943 wartime drama was suggested as a World War Two moral-boosting movie by Eleanor Roosevelt, the US First Lady (1933-45), and is based on a tragic real story, though slightly fictionalized. It […]
Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch’s last completed film is the 1946 sophisticated romantic comedy Cluny Brown, set in pre-World War Two England, getting its laughs out of satirising the smugness of British high society. Jennifer Jones stars as […]