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A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.

In 2484, a comet endangers Earth's orbit. An academic mounts a time-travel mission to retrieve a genius's formula for moving continents before it's lost in a childhood fire.

A WWII deserter stabs his commander and flees, disguising himself as a woman among gypsies who see him as a mystic. He falls for a gypsy girl, causing tension - especially when his commander tracks him down.

When his fiancée vanishes in Russia, champion shooter Rajdeep must battle gypsies, corrupt police, assassins, smugglers, and the mafia to uncover her fate - but is he ready for what he'll discover?

A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.

We can follow the daily lives of the mostly female employees of a Czech supermarket. Work, love, gossip, family problems and, of course, always first: The customer.

A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi sympathizer.

Bílý ráj / White Paradise (1924). After a young man is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the daughter of the local tavern owners must spring to the rescue.

A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments. Great mystery is immediately found by TV station. And soon the military base becomes a stage for huge TV show.

Jean Moeller and his brother-in-law Paul Holston both study medicine. Paul gets tuberculosis and only through a long stay in the South can he recover. To help Paul, Jean robs a wealthy Jewish merchant. Jean Moller is convicted of theft and banned from college. During his prison sentence, Paul dies after graduating. After his release, Jean takes the identity of Paul and he becomes a renowned doctor.

A biography of the American rock band The Beach Boys, with interviews, concert footage and clips from movies and television shows they appeared in.

Courageous democracy activists in five countries (Egypt, Malaysia, Ukraine, Venezuela and Zimbabwe) risk it all to bring freedom to their people.

The film captures the excited political atmosphere in March 1968 Czechoslovakia when president Antonin Novotny stepped down and Ludvik Svoboda was elected a new president. The then top political figures are filmed during their day to day meetings, often during their personal conversations. Thus a mosaic of shots portraying the spirit of those times is created.

When gold is found near Marble City the rush brings farmer Brendel, Pastor Benson and gambler Ellis to town. Bandits and Cherokees threaten the settlers. Friends Phil and Pat try to restore order and find the culprit causing the mayhem.

Co-directed by Godard with the Dziga Vertov group in 1969, 'Pravda's a direct attack to revisionism and socialist imperialism. With his usual collage of images taken from real life, the film's structured as a letter which a man writes to a woman called Rosa.

Tells the love story between a young Czech woman and an attractive but womanizing Canadian, who is a temporary coach of the Finnish field hockey team.

Lieutenant Jares from the Ostrava CID is transferred to Prague due to some work inconveniences. His co-workers are his colleague Bílek, whom he knows from earlier years, and a young, dedicated Ivan.

On her fifteenth birthday the princess finds a diary written by her mother when she was young. The diary tells of her mother, the Queen's secret, early love. The Princess goes into the forest to meet her mother's former lover. When she looks into his eyes she realizes why her mother had fallen in love.

A film that documents the burial of those who lost their lives at the Holocaust camp in Falkenau, Czechoslovakia.

This entry in James A. FitzPatrick's Traveltalks series looks at Czechoslovakia, before World War II, including images of bridges, churches, and castles in Prague, with a non-military parade through the city.