Topics

Pioneers: Long Journey (Alfréd Radok, 1948)

New Wave: Transport from Paradise (Zbyněk Brynych, 1962); Diamonds of the Night (Jan Němec, 1964); The Prayer for Catherine Horovitz (Antonín Moskalyk, 1965); The Shop on Main Street (Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos, 1965); Dita Saxová (Antonín Moskalyk, 1967); The Cremator (Juraj Herz, 1968)

Non-representation of Jews: I survived my own death (Vojtěch Jasný, 1960); The Night caught me (Juraj Herz, 1985)

New depiction of the topic: Colette (Milan Cieslar, 2013)

Sentiment and stereotypes: The Last Butterfly (Karel Kachyňa, 1990); The King of the Colonnades (Zeno Dostál, 1990); All my beloved (Matej Mináč, 1999)

World context: The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, 1940); Ostatni etap (Wanda Jakubowska, 1948); The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet, 1964); Holocaust (Marvin J. Chomsky, 1978); Sophie´s Choice (Alan J. Pakula, 1982); Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985); Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle, 1987); Schindler´s list (Steven Spielberg, 1993); A boy in the stripped pajamas (Mark Herman, 2008)