Postmodernistic version of the grotesque and blasphemic novel The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch by czech anarchistic and subjectiv-idealistic philosopher Ladislav Klima (1878-1928) transposed into reality of the Prague 1989. The visual look of the film is credited by painter Michael Rittstein, a representative of the Czech grotesque. The film instead of the Prince’s headquarters takes place on the television transmitter, the main role is played by Czech punk-rock star Vilem Cok. The film is full of blasphemy, allusions to pornography and aesthetics of decay and kitsch. For Jan Nemec meant the project return to the Czech film, but also in his time shocking failure – Czech society was not ready for such hyperbole.

832MB | 1h 26m | 720X576 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/41CBA64C70804F5/V-zaru-kralovske-lasky-CS-komedie-1990-TVrip.avi

Language:Czech
Subtitles:None

The post Jan Nemec – V žáru královské lásky AKA In the Light of the King’s Love (1990) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

This controversial feature blends documentary, archival footage and fiction into an elliptical narrative in which two young people in Prague, an ancient seat for the practice of alchemy, follow the trail for the mystical philosopher’s stone. History and future blend as brilliant montage sequences and fanciful leaps of the imagination work to posit questions about the legacy of the past and how it influences the individual’s personal freedom and responsibility

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Jméno kódu Rubín has nothing in common with realism; it is a thing of fantasy; spiritual, artificially created reality. All my life I have felt that film is much closer to music than to anything else. It means that I work with fantasy, imagination, tones, rhythm, harmony and feelings. Film influences the non-rational spheres of human life. — Jan Němec
In “magical” Prague, flight dispatcher Michal and Rubín, who works for the National Museum, try to find the missing ingredient to create the Philosopher’s Stone. Their alchemistical quest—made possible by the discovery of a cosmic object by the U.S. space shuttle (who heads the Smithsonian Institute, not who occupies the White House, the film quips, matters most)—reflects on the role of power in world politics and on the twentieth century’s greatest evil: Nazism. (The Nazis had hoped to create the Stone themselves, boxes of confiscated formulas revealed at the end of World War II.) Blending fiction and documentary (contemporary, archival), Jan Němec’s Jméno kódu Rubín is the first outstanding film of the Czech Republic. Its sparkling wonder allows grownups to experience something of the same utter delight and fascination they did in their first encounter with Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Down this new rabbit hole, as Michal and Rubín investigate, all sorts of world figures pop up, including Václav Havel, first president of the Czech Republic, and Madeleine Albright, the U.S. Secretary of State who made unconvincing claims of belatedly discovering Jewish Czech roots, and whose hat when hosted by anti-Communist Havel tempts historical fate by its red flower adornment.
Architecture, paintings, drawings, sculptures, books—a weightless, restless camera surveys the past/present from every conceivable angle in order to fathom the modern Czech Republic, this continuity of culture being the quest “behind” the alchemical quest.

1.05GB | 1h 19m | 640×416 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/C0DB5E6EE1F42E3/Code.Name.Ruby.1997.X264.VHSRip.KG.mkv

Language:Czech
Subtitles:English

The post Jan Nemec – Jmeno kodu: Rubin AKA Code Name: Ruby (1997) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Jan Nemec, a leading filmmaker of the Czech New Wave, creates an original portrait of one of the most provocative artists of the 20th century: Toyen (Marie Cerminova). As a female artist, Toyen broke through the male-dominated art world to create paintings and drawings often erotic in nature. She co-founded the surrealist movement in her native Prague, survived the Nazis and the Communists, maintained artistic and personal relationships with artists Jindrich Heisler (whom she hid during WWII) and Jindrich Styrsky, and was an active member of the French surrealist circle. Toyen is an essay film which mixes archival footage with re-enactments, poems by Toyen, Heisler and Styrsky, and a visual palette and soundscape that penetrate the interior life of this enigmatic and great artist. “Toyen remains a unique way of approaching an artist’s life…” (Peter Hames, Czech and Slovak Cinema).

1.37GB | 1h 03m | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8DEC69FB9235D59/Toyen.2005.720p.WEB-DL.mkv
or
https://nitro.download/view/776B0E3C72E4D98/Toyen.2005.720p.WEB-DL.AAC.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/397D345A21D7C4B/Toyen.2005.720p.WEB-DL.AAC.part2.rar

Language:Czech
Subtitles:English

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Distinguished as being ‘banned forever’ in its native Czechoslovakia, Nemec’s film is a masterpiece of barbed, darkly sinister wit. As a biting satire of governmental and institutional power and with its astute observations of human nature and conformity, it is a film whose relevance continues to this day.
Considered the most politically dangerous film made during the short flowering of the Czech New Wave in the 1960s, this is its first-ever release on DVD.

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This experimental Czechoslovakian film seems disturbingly akin to the works of Spain’s Luis Bunuel. A group of happy picnickers runs afoul of Jan Klusak, a bullying sadist who has some sort of unbreakable hold over his followers. Klusak subjects the picnickers to a cruel psychological game, wherein he plays interrogator. The ordeal comes to a brief end when a stranger (Ivan Vyskocil) arrives, apologizes for Klusak, and invites everyone to an elegant, formal outdoor banquet. But the bizarre “fun and games” continue, ending with the group embarking on a fully armed hunting party in search of a missing guest. Built on the premise of unquestioning conformity, Report on the Party and the Guests (O Slavnosti a Hostech) was a typically iconoclastic effort from the husband-and-wife director-screenwriter team of Jan Nemec and Ester Krumbachova.
Hal Erickson, allmovie.com

1.29GB | 1 h 10 min | 714×535 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/6C384AADD497EF7/Jan_Nemec_-_(1966)_A_Report_on_the_Party_and_Guests.mkv
or
https://fikper.com/pDcXcDsmCr/Jan_Nemec_-_(1966)_A_Report_on_the_Party_and_Guests.mkv.html

Language:Czech
Subtitles:None

The post Jan Nemec – O slavnosti a hostech AKA The Party and the Guests (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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One of the defining works of the Czech New Wave was the portmanteau film Pearls from the Deep (Perlicky na dne, 1965). Not only did it bring five key directors of the Wave (Chytilova, Jires, Menzel, Nemec and Schorm) together in one film, making it the Wave’s official “coming out” as a group, but it tied them to a writer, Bohumil Hrabal, whose ability to capture the rhythms and refrains of everyday spoken Czech was highly influential on the Wave’s direction

1.79GB | 1 h 47 min | 712×534 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/BA829FBF152B828/Various_-_%281966%29_Pearls_of_the_Deep.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/8018F9EB40E5FF9/Various_-_%281966%29_Pearls_of_the_Deep.part2.rar

Language:Czech, Romany
Subtitles:English

The post Vera Chytilová, Jaromil Jires, Jiri Menzel, Jan Nemec & Evald Schorm – Perlicky na dne aka Pearls Of The Deep (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

One of the most powerful documentaries ever made, Oratorio for Prague contains the only footage from the Soviet-led invasion of Prague in 1968. Czech New Wave filmmaker Jan Nĕmec (A Report on the Party and the Guests) began filming with the intention to document Prague Spring, a celebration of the newfound liberalization of Czechoslovakia, but the film’s subject took a dramatic turn when Soviet tanks rolled through the streets. The invasion ended Prague Spring, leaving Nĕmec blacklisted and Oratorio for Prague banned. Even so, the film was able to have a profound impact. The raw footage represented the first proof that the Soviet Army had not been “invited” into Czechoslovakia and was used in international news reports, screened to a standing ovation in New York, and was sourced for Philip Kaufman’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), and featured in Slavoj Žižek and Sophie Fiennes’ The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology.

536MB | 29mn 23s | 704×528 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D3C3FE19639EB96/Oratorio_for_Prague_-_Jan_Nemec_(1968).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/9C031625153ED90/Oratorio_for_Prague_-_Uncut_footage.mkv
http://nitroflare.com/view/5E4BEEAE99C8719/Oratorio_for_Prague_-_Jan_Nemec_%281968%29.enutf8.srt

Language:English
Subtitles:English

The post Jan Nemec – Oratorio for Prague [+Extra] (1968) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Another brilliant outing from Czech New Wave master Jan Nemec, director of Diamonds of the Night and The Party and the Guests.

Martyrs of Love is in 3 distinct sections, separated by title cards, connected thematically and formally rather than concretely. Music is probably the most important connection, as all three sections have prominent musical events.

There are no subs but there is very little dialogue anyway.

https://nitro.download/view/9A7DBA3950E7121/Mucednici_Lasky.avi
https://nitro.download/view/A03146C3A29066A/mucednicilasky.srt

Brazilian Portuguese
http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/captcha2/redirect-|pt|subtitles|5592195|mucednici-lasky-pb

Language(s):Czech
Subtitles:English,Brazilian Portuguese,

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