Karel Čapek

A woman admits that she is 300 years old, and yet, she looks incredibly young and attractive. Inspired by Karel Čapek’s play “The Makropulos Affair” for Faberlic.

An inventor, Bubi, creates a female android he calls "Wera." Unfortunately, a gang of robbers finds out about Wera, steals her, and uses her to commit a series of crimes in Prague. (io9.com)

This biographical film examines the multitalented personality of Karel Čapek and the context behind the creation of his works such as Krakatit, The White Disease, R-U-R, War with the Newts, or the “pocket stories”.

What makes us human? What do robots bring to us? Seiji Nozoe directs this masterpiece by the Czech national author and playwright Karel Capek. This 1920 play, which questions the development of civilization, is brought into the modern era.

A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.

A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explores dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia.

A woman admits that she is 300 years old, and yet, she looks incredibly young and attractive. Inspired by Karel Čapek’s play “The Makropulos Affair” for Faberlic.

An inventor, Bubi, creates a female android he calls "Wera." Unfortunately, a gang of robbers finds out about Wera, steals her, and uses her to commit a series of crimes in Prague. (io9.com)

What makes us human? What do robots bring to us? Seiji Nozoe directs this masterpiece by the Czech national author and playwright Karel Capek. This 1920 play, which questions the development of civilization, is brought into the modern era.

A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.

A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explores dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia.

Juraj Hordubal returns from America after eight years, where he has earned enough money to improve his farm. However, his daughter Hafia does not recognize him and his wife Polana does not show any joy at his return. Štěpán Manya has been a farmhand on the farm all these years, and people claim that he has become Polana's lover. Juraj denies the accusations and believes that his wife's distance from him is only due to the long separation...