Catalogue des films de « Drahomíra Vihanova »

A documentary eulogy on the meaning of life and the relation between humanity and history. Born in 1905 in the Orlické mountains of Eastern Bohemia, Franz Eimann led a life governed by hard work and the fear of God on his family farm until the...

An unconventional portrait of the famous jazz singer, Eva Olmerová, shot over several months. Sometimes ready to collaborate with the filmmaker, sometimes behaving like an aggressive, ageing and deeply depressed artist, the restless Eva Olmerová...

A place where time stands still. A village nursing home where old women find their last refuge. Drahomíra Vihanová films the residents with no complacency or sentimentality. A dark, uncompromising point of view. An appeal to measure the value...

While a nuclear power plant takes shape before their eyes, the employees of the caterer Dukovany carry on with their highly unattractive jobs. The film denounces the absurdity of the situation in which mankind finds itself. A humanist film made...

Starting out from pianist Frantisekk Rauch's interpretation of the Fifth Concerto for piano and orchestra, Drahomíra Vihanová unveils the artist's mysterious character and acquaints us with his immense mastery of his art. She films the different...

Two women apparently totally opposite share nonetheless the same positive attitude towards life: a desire to create, the need to surpass their own limits and help others. They have never met. Dr Alena Konecná is a scientist and works in a...

A crew of workers is digging the tunnels of Prague's future metro. With her hand-held camera, Drahomíra Vihanová follows these men at work underground then in their daily lives. Distancing herself from the classical codes and methods of...

During the shoot of a film on Antonin Dvorák, directed in 1978 and 1979 by Frantisek Vlácil, Drahomíra Vihanová attempted to represent Vlácil's work of direction, his research and uncertainties, the atmosphere of the shoot. A major film on...

A moving portrait of Frantisek Kriz who each day descends the steep slopes of the Eagle Mountains carrying on his horse a load of logs, ceaselessly, whatever the weather. Last descendant of a family which has transmitted the activity from...

FICTION In an arid city at the height of summer, a young officer roams aimlessly looking for something to do. The sleepy summer atmosphere of a military zone from which it is impossible to escape provokes within him a feeling of futility and...