The Cleveland International Film Festival couldn't wait to screen Jan Hrebejk's "Divided We Fall" the first time around. It never got to. The film was pulled from the festival circuit because it was ...

To fans of castles and beer, post-communist Prague seems an attractive destination. But for Marcela (Ana Geislerova), the Czech beauty whose troubles drive director Jan Hrebejk's biting, yet ...

Hrebejk’s Honeymoon screens again tomorrow at the Gene Siskel Film Center. In April I met with Hrebejk when he came through town to introduce Honeymoon at the European Union Film Festival. With the ...

Try as he might, Jan Hrebejk could never conjure up the time machine that he had longed for as a child, but decades later he has found a better way to bend time to his will. Using a filmmaker’s ...

The downs tend to overwhelm the ups in “Up and Down,” Jan Hrebejk’s satirical examination of the state of contemporary Czech parenthood. But that’s OK because Hrebejk’s nihilistic touches are far more ...

film profile] was inspired by several different situations which in reality happened really a little differently, at different places and to different people than in the film. The situation of an ...

{image1}In his new film, "Up and Down," director and co-screenwriter Jan Hrebejk -- who normally works amid historical settings -- takes his first look at contemporary Czech society and uses three ...

One of the Czech Republic’s most prolific helmers, Jan Hrebejk has now made nine features, at a rate of roughly one per year — mostly in collaboration with his regular screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky.

One of the Czech Republic’s most prolific filmmakers, Jan Hrebejk returns to Karlovy Vary with “The Teacher,“ a social satire set in 1980s Czechoslovakia. The story, based on true events, revolves ...

Hrebejk’s genial sex farce 4Some screened as part of the 2013 European Union Film Festival. Read part one of this interview. Ben Sachs: You often develop your characters through their sexual ...