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Summary for: This week's guide to English-friendly Czech cinema and streaming🇨🇿 Czech Cinema Spotlight
What a Way to Go (Pět švestek), the latest film from Oscar-winning Czech director Jan Svěrák (Kolya), follows a group of elderly friends who reunite for one final sailing trip off the Greek coast as illness, and mortality close in on their lives. Blending dark humor with moments of melancholy, the film approaches old age with an unflinching eye.
The Prague Reporter calls it “an engaging, funny, and occasionally subversive late-life road movie that approaches aging with more honesty than sentimentality.” What a Way to Go screens with English subtitles this week at Kino Atlas (June 1-3 and 6-7) and Edison Filmhub (June 4).
🇬🇧 This Week's English-Friendly Screenings
- June 1: Offbeat Icelandic family drama The Love That Remains screens with English subtitles at Kino Aero and Bio Oko.
- June 1: Edison Filmhub hosts a pre-premiere of Amazonia, a dialogue-free film about a capuchin monkey struggling to survive after a plane crash in the Amazon.
- June 1: Diana Fabiánová’s Slovak documentary Open, following a couple navigating infidelity, screens with English subtitles at Kino Atlas (also June 3 and June 5).
- June 2: The historical thriller The Disappearance of Josef Mengele plays with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub.
- June 3: Mamoru Oshii’s anime classic Angel's Egg plays in its newly-restored 4K edition with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub.
- June 3: Carla Simón’s Catalan drama Alcarràs screens with English subtitles at Kino Aero ahead of the local release of her latest film, Romería.
- June 3: A Greek-language fable about a runaway chicken, Hen screens with English subtitles at Bio Oko (also May 20 at Kino Aero).
- June 3: Enjoy an English-friendly mystery movie at Kino Aero's Blind Date. Free entry; pay what you want after the screening.
- June 3: iShorts: Shortly Summer presents English-friendly short films with a summer theme at Bio Oko.
- June 4: An English-language lecture on communal housing and sustainable architecture will precede a screening of Women of the Bauhaus at Kino Světozor.
- June 4: Czech co-production Ungrateful Beings screens with English subtitles at Edison Filmhub, followed by a Q&A with director Olmo Omerzu.
- June 5: Kino Aero hosts a Wim Wenders double feature with Wings of Desire and Faraway, So Close! both screening with English subtitles.
- June 6: Hana Nováková’s documentary AMOOSED: A Moose Odyssey screens with English subtitles at Kino Atlas.
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(Proficient)📺 The Streaming Watchlist
- Season 2 of Tina Fey's travel-themed comedy-drama The Four Seasons has premiered on Netflix, with all eight episodes now streaming.
- Star City explores the Soviet side of the space, where cosmonauts and KGB operatives face escalating Cold War paranoia; episodes 1-2 are now streaming on Apple TV+.
- Season 2 of Deli Boys follows two Pakistani American brothers adjusting to their father’s criminal legacy; all episodes are now streaming on Disney+ in Czechia.
- The first three episodes of Yellowstone spinoff Dutton Ranch, starring Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser, are now streaming on SkyShowtime in Czechia.
- John Travolta's Propeller One-Way Night Coach follows an eight-year-old aviation enthusiast on a 1962 cross-country flight; now streaming on Apple TV+.
🎞️ The Throwback
All My Good Countrymen, Vojtěch Jasný’s landmark Czech New Wave drama, traces the gradual breakdown of a close-knit rural community in a Moravian village disrupted by post-war collectivization, where everyday life is reshaped by political pressure, shifting loyalties, and personal tragedy.
Initially released in 1969, it was quickly banned by communist censors but won the Best Director prize at Cannes. All My Good Countrymen screens in a digitally restored version with English subtitles at Kino Ponrepo on June 5, and is also available to stream on KVIFF.tv.
