Echoes of the Noir Film Festival 2026
Monday
December 21
Monday December 21 5:45 PM · Small screening hall, Cihlářská 19
5:45 PMSmall screening hall, Cihlářská 19Classic
Christmas with Elizabeth is one of those Kachyňa-Procházka films that center around a vulnerable young person. Pavla Kárníková is, same as Robert Lischke in Shadows of a Hot Summer, an example of an actor delivering an impressive debut performance and then disappearing from the film industry. Here she is cast next to the already experienced Vlado Müller, who would go on to act for another quarter of a century. Together they portrayed an unlikely pair of souls searching for a... more...
Sunday
January 17 2027
Sunday January 17 2027 5:45 PM · Small screening hall, Cihlářská 19
5:45 PMSmall screening hall, Cihlářská 19Classic
Although several crime films about lovers on the run from the law were made in the 1930s and 1940s, it was not until the 1950 Gun Crazy that this narrative formula was brought to perfection. The film was produced by the infamous King brothers, who allocated a generous budget of half a million dollars for its production. The final version of the screenplay was written by the exceptionally talented Dalton Trumbo. However, because his name was on the blacklist at... more...
Gun Crazy
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Tuesday
January 26 2027
Tuesday January 26 2027 8:00 PM · Main screening hall, Cihlářská 19
8:00 PMMain screening hall, Cihlářská 19Classic
French director Henri-George Clouzot is well known to NFF attendees. From his relatively modest filmography, we have screened three films to date – Le Corbeau (1943), Quai des Orfèvres (1947), and, most recently last year, Diabolique (1955). This year, we’ll be screening what is perhaps his greatest classic, the adventure thriller The Wages of Fear, based on the slim novel by Georges Arnaud. In the afterword to its Czech translation, screenwriter and dramaturg Karel Cop writes that Arnaud, an “anarchist”... more...
The Wages of Fear (1953)