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Short experimental film conceived by the director as a metaphor for his own death.

Two boys run away from the certain death awaiting them at a Nazi concentration camp.

Semi-autobiographical reflections based on Němec’s imaginary dialogue with his mother and inspired by Kafka’s A Letter to his Father.

Portrait of the Czech surrealist.

A comedic reinvention of the director's own own quasi-autobiographical short stories.

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