The Czech or Czechoslovak New Wave was a period in the 1960s during which a group of filmmakers made movies that were at once humorous and humanistic, artistically engaging and politically challenging, pushing back against the way things were in their socialist Eastern Bloc country.
Fortunately, they outlasted their eternal bans, and we, 55 years later, can watch and appreciate them. So too can we explore what came after: the less overtly political but still comic and touching Czech movies of the 1970s and '80s, and the movies of the '90s and aughts that drew on past moments of tumult and transition.
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