Movies: Based on song poem or rhyme

The weather was beautiful. Princess was awful. At two o'clock in the afternoon princess get lost in the woods. Or maybe it was the other way around?...

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Sangria is intended to discuss the women's role in Brazil since colonization until nowadays, once the females have been silenced and battered for ages. It's formed by 28 poems like a menstrual cycle. The poet, Luiza Romao, has recorded each poem in a...

Film adaptation of the earliest known poem in the English language (written in the 8th century) which examines the ancient and heroic tradition from which the feudal system started to grow. The film, as in the poem, is an elegy lamenting the not only...

Screen adaptation of Dmytro Pavlychko's tale-poem of the same name. The shepherd Vasylko saves his friend, the magical golden-horned deer, from the greedy king and his army....

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A brilliant performance of Schönberg's monumental work at the Prague State Opera. Arnold Schönberg composed Gurre-Lieder to a text by J. P. Jacobsen about the tragic love of the Danish king Waldemar and his mistress Tove Lille, who was murdered out o...

A paranoid man spends his life alone at home....

Following an order of the landowner, the bride of Arsena’s fellow villager gets kidnapped and the bride’s father is relentlessly flogged. Arsena tries to rescue the woman but fails and goes to the mountains with his newly married wife. Above all, Ars...

In a mountain village in eastern Moravia, J. D., a well-behaved and hard-working young man, his parents' only hope, mysteriously disappeared from home some time ago. At first it was judged to be a misfortune or a crime; the human imagination was left...

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The people of a town are condemned to die one by one by a mysterious stranger who erects a gallows in the town square....

On the beach at sunset a man waits for his one true love. When she arrives, a bittersweet romance ensues....

Filmed on 16mm film, this visual expression is rooted in its archival materials and backed up by the poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It speaks of the forgotten people, their lives and their deeds. These two Archives have been found on the flea mark...

Jana's beautiful niece arrives in Prague to live with two spinster aunts. Both women wish to marry her off. The son of the court councilor Petr is courting her. However, Jana has met a young official Záviš and the two fall in love. But Záviš is poor ...

The film is based on the words of a song performed by Iza Kremer in Odessa....

The main character is hiding in a room. He feels like he is being followed at every turn. He spends his days sneaking as far away from windows as possible, fearing his pursuers - faceless people....

An avant-garde montage of a boxing match, based on a poem by Paul Werrie....

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