Ivo Špalj Movies

In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a...

"The Castle of Otranto" is animation/short/mockumentary based on "The Castle of Otranto", a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole, the first Gothic novel. The...

A look at the legendary Czech sound designer and his profession. Editor and documentary filmmaker Adéla Špaljová has her father...

A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to...

A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).

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...

The full-length film which, though based on Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, is more about the complexity of the time and the world. We witness the...

The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.

Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies...

It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia.

A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.

Wealthy but alone, a king spends his days obsessively polishing shiny objects throughout his opulent castle. After a visit from a puckish forest...

The film, 'The Spring Of Life', brings to light a little-known operation of the Nazi SS, started just before the outbreak of World War II. Through...

This combined film (black and white drawings of human hands and objects) is a parable on power and the motives affecting modern society.

A man watches a cartoon of a cat and mouse, and cheers as the mouse scores a victory over the cat.