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Summary for: This week's guide to English-friendly Czech cinema and streaming🇬🇧 This Week's English-Friendly Screenings
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele follows the Nazi doctor’s decades on the run in South America, tracing his life in exile across Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil after Auschwitz. Starring August Diehl as Mengele, the film premiered at Cannes last year and arrives in Prague as a stark historical thriller about the lingering afterlife of fascism.
The Prague Reporter calls it “a striking, noir-inflected thriller” that “never lets the weight of his crimes recede from view.” The Disappearance of Josef Mengele plays with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub and Kino Atlas in Prague from May 7.
- May 4: Hen, a Greek tragicomic tale about a runaway chicken, screens with English subtitles at Bio Oko (also May 7 at Oko, and May 5, 6, and 8 at Kino Světozor).
- May 4: Merchant-Ivory classic The Remains of the Day, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, screens with Czech subtitles at Kino Aero.
- May 5: Visit the Tate from Prague's Kino Světozor during Turner & Constable, an exhibition on screen documentary that explores the work of the rival painters (also at Kino Lucerna on May 7-8).
- May 5: Enjoy an English-friendly mystery movie at Kino Aero's Blind Date. Free entry; pay what you want after the screening.
- May 5: Norwegian drama Don’t Call Me Mama, about a teacher’s relationship with a young refugee, screens with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub.
- May 5: German documentary Elon Musk Unveiled: The Tesla Experiment, exploring Tesla’s autonomous driving controversies, plays at Kino Atlas (also May 8-10).
- May 7: Architect Pascal Müller of Swiss firm Müller Sigrist Architekten gives an English-language lecture on city housing at Kino Světozor.
- May 8: Czech environmental thriller Resilience, about a wildlife investigation into poisoned birds of prey, screens with English subtitles at Kino Atlas.
- May 9: Ingmar Bergman’s classic psychological drama Through a Glass Darkly screens with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub.
🍿 New wide releases
🇨🇿 Czech Cinema Spotlight
Adam Martinec’s debut feature Our Lovely Pig Slaughter (Mord) turns a traditional Czech village zabíjačka into a sharply observed tragicomedy about family, ritual, and generational change.
Premiering at the 2024 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where it won a Special Award, the film was praised for its dry humor, lived-in performances, and unsentimental look at Czech family life. Our Lovely Pig Slaughter is newly streaming on Netflix with English subtitles in Czechia.
📺 The Streaming Watchlist
- The first two episodes of Widow’s Bay, a horror comedy starring Matthew Rhys, are now streaming on Apple TV+, with new episodes releasing Wednesdays.
- The first three episodes of The House of the Spirits, a new adaptation of Isabel Allende's novel, are now streaming on Prime Video, with new episodes Tuesdays.
- All seven episodes of the revenge thriller Man on Fire, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in a role previously played by Denzel Washington, are now streaming on Netflix.
- Swapped, an animated family film about two natural forest enemies who magically switch bodies, is now streaming on Netflix.
- Wuthering Heights, Emerald Fennell's adaptation of the Emily Brontë novel starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, is now streaming on HBO Max.
🎞️ The Throwback
Jiří Krejčík’s classic morality tale A Higher Principle (Vyšší princip) screens with English subtitles at Kino Aero on May 7 as part of the Some Like It Czech series, bringing one of the key works of postwar Czech cinema back to the big screen.
The 1960 drama, based on Jan Drda’s story inspired by real events during the Heydrich-era reprisals, is set in a small-town gymnasium under Nazi occupation. When three students are arrested after a minor act of defiance, their teacher is forced to confront the moral collapse around him.
