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Summary for: This week's guide to English-friendly Czech cinema and streaming🇬🇧 This Week's English-Friendly Screenings
One of the best films of 2025 is now playing in Prague cinemas: Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors revisits the paranoia of Stalin’s Great Purge through the story of a young Soviet attorney who begins to question the machinery of political repression. The film serves as a chilling allegory for contemporary world events—and not only in Russia.
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The Prague Reporter calls the film “a stark parable about the bureaucracy of terror, and the terror of bureaucracy.” Two Prosecutors screens with English subtitles at Kino Světozor on March 10; keep an eye out for additional English-friendly showings.
- March 9: Paolo Sorrentino's Grace (La grazia), starring Toni Servillo as a fictional Italian president, plays with English subtitles at Kino Světozor and Kino Aero.
- March 10 & 12: Let it Rain, the latest from Swedish director Hannes Holm (A Man Called Ove), screens with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub.
- March 11-19: The One World film festival presents human-rights-themed films across 10 Prague cinemas; most screenings are English-friendly.
- March 11: Czech animator Jiří Barta's classic The Pied Piper and selected shorts screen with English subtitles at Kino Aero.
- Jafar Panahi's Cannes-winning It Was Just an Accident screens with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub.
- March 12: An eclectic double feature at Kino Aero pairs Robert Downey Sr.'s Putney Swope with Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights.
- March 13: Czech Oscar submission I'm Not Everything I Want to Be screens with English subtitles at Kino Atlas, followed by a debate with professors Jack Halberstam (Columbia University) and Bogdan Popa (Transylvania University).
🍿 New wide releases
- The Bride! ★★★
🇨🇿 Czech Cinema Spotlight
In case you missed it in local cinemas last year, Summer School, 2001 is now streaming with English subtitles on HBO Max. Directed by Dužan Duong, the film offers a touching portrait of a Vietnamese family running a stall at Cheb’s Dragoun Market in the early 2000s, blending nostalgia with an intimate look at immigrant life in Czechia.
The Prague Reporter writes that “this affectionate portrait of the journey of immigrants in the Czech Republic has a raw authenticity and genuine nostalgia for a very particular time and place.” The film has also recently secured a theatrical distribution deal in the U.S., and should arrive in American cinemas later this year.
📺 The Streaming Watchlist
- The eighth and final season of Outlander has debuted its first episode, available locally on Netflix. New episodes release on Fridays.
- Alien technology targets U.S. Rangers-in-training in War Machine, starring Reacher's Alan Ritchson, now streaming on Netflix.
- Jason Bateman and David Harbour star in the new HBO Max dark comedy DTF: St. Louis. The first episode is now available, with new episodes dropping Mondays.
- Rachel Weisz is a college professor obsessed with a new colleague in the miniseries Vladimir, now streaming in full on Netflix.
- Steve Carrell stars in the new comedy Rooster, from the creators of Ted Lasso, premiering tonight (Monday morning, Prague time) on HBO Max.
- Hero Fiennes Tiffin is a fledgling detective in Young Sherlock, with all eight episodes of the first season now streaming on Prime Video.
🎞️ The Throwback
The legacy of Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal received new recognition this week as his cottage in Kersko was declared a national cultural monument. The modest retreat inspired one of the most beloved adaptations of his work: The Snowdrop Festival, a tragicomic portrait of village life that captures the eccentric residents and seasonal cottage culture.
Directed by Jiří Menzel, the 1983 film follows a series of humorous episodes among locals gathering at the village pub, culminating in a chaotic feast following a wild boar hunt. Shot on location in Kersko—where many recognizable sites still remain—The Snowdrop Festival is currently streaming with English subtitles on Netflix in Czechia.
