Along the Silk Road in a Trabant

The third installment in Dan Přibáň's series of travel documentaries describes the author's journey with his friends across South America in vehicles that are often notorious but cult in their own way. The charming dynamics of the group on screen are further enhanced by the high-quality craftsmanship.

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Dan Přibáň

Cast

Marek Slobodník, Zdeněk Krátký, Radoslaw Jona

From Prague to Cape Town in a Trabant. Two cylinders, two strokes, two Trabants, 20,000 kilometers. Through deserts, mountains, sand, and mud. Trabant Across Africa is a film about a journey. A journey worth taking, even if you keep telling yourself never again, and if you do, then not in a Trabant. A film about what it means to travel...

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Dana Zlatohlávková, Dan Přibáň

Cast

Jan Martin Kozel, Pavel Šimek, Klára Handrejchová

Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house must give way to a golf course. Hope Udo teacher, his wife Rita and daughter Jacqueline through the surprising inheritance of a factory near Dresden. But of market economy, the staid Saxons...

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Wolfgang Büld, Reinhard Klooss

Cast

Claudia Schmutzler, Marie Gruber, Wolfgang Stumph

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Jan Svěrák

Cast

Zdeněk Svěrák, Andrei Khalimon, Libuše Šafránková

An eccentric East German inventor and defector travels to Los Angeles, California to sell a prototype revolutionary new car that runs on vegetables and produces no pollution, but he runs into one madcap situation after another to find a buyer and financier for mass production.

Runtime

1h 27m

Director

Jon Turteltaub

Cast

Thomas Gottschalk, Billy Dee Williams, Dom DeLuise

Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his friend's cause and recruits a writer and five prisoners to destroy the desperadoes.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

George McCowan

Cast

Lee Van Cleef, Stefanie Powers, Michael Callan

On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

George McCowan

Cast

Ralph Bellamy, Farrah Fawcett, Polly Bergen

After years of living in the city and working in a business world altogether apart from his roots, Mike, a westernized First Nations, is contacted by freelance reporter Maureen, who was enlisted by his grandfather, shaman Old Man Hawk, to track his grandson. When Mike assents to returning with Maureen, they find that the village is bes...

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

George McCowan, Daryl Duke

Cast

Jan-Michael Vincent, Marilyn Hassett, Chief Dan George

A love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player and a hippie folk singer. Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with their differences in careers and lifestyles. Several National Hockey League players also appear in the film.

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

George McCowan

Cast

Art Hindle, Trudy Young, John Vernon

Planet Earth is a devastated wasteland, and what's left of humanity has colonized the Moon in domed cities. Humanity's continued survival depends on an anti-radiation drug only available on planet Delta Three, which has been taken over by Omus, a brilliant but mad mechanic who places no value on human life. Omus wants to come to the Mo...

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

George McCowan

Cast

Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse