The romantic comedy Meet John Doe was directed by legendary director Frank Capra. The plot takes the viewer to the editorial office of the newspaper “The Bulletin”, which is left by journalist Ann Mitchell (Barbara Starwyck) as part of a restructuring. Ann therefore writes a fictional letter to a man who is unemployed, criticises social conditions and threatens …
Sabine GisigerSwitzerland | 202381 min | German, English, Czech subs Sabine Gisiger (*1959 in Zurich) studied history in Zurich and Pisa and graduated in 1988 with a dissertation on the history of maids. In 1989 she trained as a television journalist at Swiss Television and then worked for years as a reporter. Since 1990 Sabine Gisiger has been …
The star-studded film introduces audiences to a group of former paratroopers and World War II veterans who are brought together by Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra). This group decides to rob five of the biggest casinos in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve. Their plan seems to go quite smoothly, however, the entire group is unexpectedly discovered and …
Thomas Roger HenrichsenDenmark | 202159 min. | Denish, Czech subtitles, English subtitles Arne Jacobsen’s work has shaped the identity of modern Denmark throughout the 20th century, and at the same time contributed to defining the renowned Scandinavian design. His designs range from the 1929 design of the House of the Future to schools, town halls and …
The story takes the audience to the cinematic Mecca – Hollywood in 1927, where George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), the charismatic hero of silent films, is among the biggest stars of the silver screen. His fame seems unshakable. But when Valentin bumps into a young fan girl, Peppa Miller (Bérénice Bejo), at the premiere of one of …
The small town of Eastwick, New England, USA is the setting for the popular film based on John Updike’s novel of the same name. The main characters are three friends, Alexandra (Cher), Jane (Susan Sarandon), Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer), who gain supernatural powers after their husbands leave them. In one of their encounters, they dream of their …
The story of this film noir begins with the escape of acting student Eve Gill (Jane Wyman) with her friend Jonathan Cooper (Richard Todd), who is accused of murder. Eve overhears Jonathan’s reconstruction of the unfortunate events that led him into this unenviable situation and decides to clear his friend of suspicion. In disguise, she gets …
The film screening will then take place in the main living room of the villa. The film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman takes the audience to Casablanca, Morocco during World War II, where American Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) is opening his nightclub. The guests at his establishment include anti-fascist …
The Postman Always Rings Twice is one of the best known representatives of film noir and was made at a time when the Hayes Code, which prohibited the depiction of violence and eroticism, was in force in the USA for newly made films. The film, whose main storyline is the tale of two lovers who, in …
Under the auspices of Cafe Biograf, the Uprostřed Festival and Villa Tugendhat, you can experience a film screening with live musical accompaniment in a modern concept. The silent film The Last of the Mohicans from 1920 will be accompanied by the Brno musical virtuoso TOM HOLIČ. The entire programme will be set in the garden of Villa …
More informations about the festival here: http://filmarchitektura.cz/en/ We will screen following movies in the mail living space of Villa Tugendhat on 4 October 2020 form 19.30: That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright In Los Angeles USA, 2018, 56 min, English, Czech subtitlesChristopher Hawthorne An Artbound episode about famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his architectural work …
When the editor-in-chief of this newspaper, Walter Burns, learns that his ex-wife is going to marry an insurance agent (Ralph Bellamy) for the second time, settle in the countryside and leave journalism, he decides to thwart the plan. So he persuades his ex-wife to write her last article about Earl Williams, a prisoner who is to …
About the film The central character of the mystery story is professional photographer Thomas (David Hemmings), who accidentally takes a picture that could be used as evidence of murder. Within this piece that is somewhat difficult to categorize when it comes to genre, the spectator follows the process of Thomas’s alienation from his surroundings and raises a number …
Thursday 19 December from 8 pm. This documentary is a fascinating insight into the history of the legendary avant-garde school that has combined art, design and craft in one unit. It’s been 100 years since Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. The documentary describes the fascinating story of this school and places it in the …
Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh as Stanley Kowalski and Blanche Dubois are the stars of the 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ eponymous film. This drama, directed by Elia Kazan, was awarded four Oscars and is generally considered one of Marlon Brando’s best performances on the silver screen. The film will be screened in the living …
A detective story based on the book by Ross MacDonald has become one of the biggest blockbusters in 1966 when it was made. The legendary Paul Newman excels as the main character, charismatic private detective Lew Harper, who guides the audience through the world of various Californian characters. The spectator gets to know armed lawyer (Arthur …
The divine Greta Garbo will be the main character of the Christmas film screening, which will take place in the glass room of Villa Tugendhat on Wednesday 19 December from 8 pm. This year’s final film screening will be dedicated to the legendary Grand Hotel from 1932 that brings the audience into an atmosphere of a fabulous hotel in …
The regular screening cycle at the Villa Tugendhat continues in August by a screening which is included in the OKUPACE 68 project, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. The screening features the ‘vaulted’ film “The Joke” directed by Jaromil Jireš, which based on the famous novel of the same name by Milan …
The traditional introduction to summer in the garden of Villa Tugendhat will take place on Friday, 29 June 2018. Starting at 6 p.m. a colourful programme will be prepared for the Summer, Swing and Cinema event participants. The main part of the programme will consist of teaching the basic steps of swing dancing followed by an …
This year’s second film screening in Tugendhat’s glass room will be devoted to the film noir Key Largo, directed by John Huston in 1948. Humphrey Bogart stars in the title role of Frank McCloud, other roles include Edward G. Robinson (Johnny Rocco), Lauren Bacall (Nora Temple) and Lionel Barrymore (James Tempe). At the onset, Frank McCloud decides to …
Wednesday 21 February, 8 p.m. The event was moved to 21 February 2018 for technical reasons. Thomas Rocco Barbella is a desperate young man who necessarily needs to make money. Therefore, he joins a boxing club under the pseudonym Rocky Graziano as a sparring partner. However, he quickly moves from the role of a sparring partner to the role …
This year’s final film screening at Villa Tugendhat will present Midnight in Paris by American director Woody Allen. The film, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, brings viewers into the unique setting of the French capital at the time of its heyday. The central characters of the film are a young …
The October film screening in the glass room of Villa Tugendhat will bring visitors to Vienna at end of 19th century. The American film The Illusionist was based on a book by Steven Millhauser in 2006. The main storyline tells of the world-renowned magician Eisenheim (Edward Norton), for whom Vienna is another stop on his European …
Cyklus filmových projekcí ve vile Tugendhat bude v únoru pokračovat klasickým hororovým snímkem Dr. Jekyll a pan Hyde z roku 1941. Snímek režiséra Victora Flemminga byl natočen dle knižní předlohy Robert Louise Stevensona a dodnes je fanoušky považován za jednu z nejpřesvědčivých interpretací tohoto díla. Děj filmu přivádí diváky do Londýna, kde místní psychiatr Dr. Henry Jekyll namíchá speciální látku, …
The series of regular screenings in the Villa Tugendhat will be launched in 2017 by a legend of silent movies, Safety Last! The film from 1923, where Harold Lloyd excels in the main role as one of the most famous actors of his time, introduces viewers to New York of the 1920’s. The hero comes from …
This year’s Christmas film screening will take place on 15 December, presenting Casablanca from 1942. The story brings the audience to African Casablanca during World War II where an American Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) opens a nightclub. Various guests include a fighter against fascism, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) and his wife Lisa (Ingrid Bergman). After a while, Blaine recognises …
Haus Tugendhat (Germany, 2013, Dieter Reifarth, 116 min.) In 1930, one of the most important modernist buildings was built in Brno. Villa Tugendhat was designed to the last detail, including furniture, door fittings and handles by architect Mies van der Rohe. At first glance it may seem that it is a unique story of a building; while …
From Saturday 1 October until Thursday 6 October 2016, repeated screenings of two films by director Rudolf Chudoba about this icon of modern architecture will take place in the technical basement of Villa Tugendhat The Fate of Tugendhat, ČR, 52 min, 2012 A documentary by director Rudolf Chudoba captures not only the story of the famous Brno …
2nd Villa Night in Brno On the last August Saturday evening, i.e. 27 August 2016, Villa Tugendhat along with other historic monuments will join the programme of the “Night of Castles and Châteaux” where visitors can combine sightseeing with unusual cultural experiences. In Brno, the evening also marks the second so-called Villa Night, since people will …
May film screening from our film screening series in the glass room of the Villa Tugendhat will take the audience to Czechoslovakia of the 1930’s. The comedy “Lelíček Serving Sherlock Holmes” is without a doubt the most famous title of director Karel Lamač. The comedy became famous thanks to the starring couple, Vlasta Burian and Lída …
The audience will be able to immerse themselves completely into the 1930’s during the April screenings in the glass room of Villa Tugendhat. The featured film will be A Killer Among Us by director Fritz Lang from 1931. This work takes the viewer into a city which anxiously searches for a murderer of young children. The film offers a unique experience …
The film made in 1973 represents filmed memories of a famous Italian director Federico Fellini, recording his youth, which he spent in Rimini, then a small northern Italian town on the shores of the Adriatic. The audience returns to Italy of 1932 and 1933 and has a chance to explore an inexhaustible catalogue of characters and situations from …
Wednesday 24 February 2016 A fairy-tale novel, written by American author Lyman Frank Braun in 1900, had its first film adaptation in 1939. The original story has been adapted in this process as a musical, which has won two Oscar statuettes for best music and song. The film takes us to a farm in Kansas, USA, where little …
Wednesday, the 27th and Thursday, the 28th January 2016 at 8 p.m. The last Wednesday and Thursday in January will bring the audience to a small town of the Wild West during the regular film screenings. The classic western, High Noon, will introduce the star of the silver screen, Gary Cooper, who received the Oscar for the Best …
On Wednesday and Thursday, 16 and 17 December 2015, the main living room of Villa Tugendhat will belong to the humour of Nataša Gollová, Oldřich Nový and Martin Frič. The central plot of this legendary comedy from 1939 is a 60th birthday celebration of Auntie Pa Norová (Zdenka Baldová), attended by her nephew Michal (Oldřich Nový) and niece …
A star duo of Paul Newman and Robert Redford in the title role will be the companions of the audience at the November film screening in the glass room of the Villa Tugendhat. The plot of this famous crime / comedy is set in the Chicago gangster environment of autumn 1936. The main storyline, divided into …
In October, the series of regular film screenings at the Villa Tugendhat will be dedicated to the legendary Cabaret, a musical from 1972. This film, which was awarded eight Oscars in 1973, tells the story of a love triangle between the main characters: Academic Brian Roberts (Michael York), singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minelli) and Baron Maximilian von Heun …
The year 1789 and the Great French Revolution are the main themes of this adventure film, with Alain Delon starring in the title dual role. The film was shot and based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas sen. It brings a story of a mysterious hero who leaves a ‘business card’ in the form of a black tulip after …
On Saturday 29 August in early evening, the Villa Tugendhat opens to visitors as part of the “Night of Castles and Châteaux” 2015. The programme which is organized in collaboration with the neighbouring Löw-Beer villa starts from 5 pm with a free tour of the Löw-Beer villa garden, which will be followed by a concert of legendary jazz …
August film screening in the main living room of Villa Tugendhat is dedicated to the cult picture by Orson Welles. The main characters of the film, which is set in the environment of a small town near the US-Mexico border, are investigator Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston) and the local police captain Hank Quinlan, whose character was …
The legendary Charlie Chaplin is the central figure of a unique cinematic satire The Dictator, which will be shown by the onyx wall of the main living room on Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th of July. In this film that uncompromisingly parodies the bleak period of World War II, Chaplin not only played a dual lead role, but …
On Friday, 26 June in the evening, the garden of Villa Tugendhat opens for dancers and lovers of classic films. Visitors will witness a rich programme starting at 6 pm with a lesson of the basic steps of swing dancing, followed by a possibility to dance with live and recorded swing music. The whole programme will culminate at 21.30 …
A charming duo, Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, are featured as the main heroes of this romantic comedy from 1954. The main character, Sabrina, lovelorn by unrequited love for David Larrabee (William Holden), flees to Paris, where he begins studying at culinary school. When she returns to her hometown two years later, she has transformed herself …
27 and 28 May 2015 at 8 p.m. Private detective Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is hired by Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) to investigate the possible infidelity of Evelyn‘s husband. In the milieu of sun-drenched California of the 1930’s and along with the main hero, we gradually unravel an intricate social network that is imbued with …
April screenings at the Villa Tugendhat will be devoted to the American film The Lost World from 1925. The film which is the first film rendition of the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, brings us the story of the turbulent Professor George Challenger who shocks his colleagues at the London Academy by a claim that dinosaurs …
A regular cycle of screenings in the Tugendhat Villa will be dedicated to the now legendary film The Blue Star Hotel on 25 and 26 March 2015. The masterpiece by director Martin Frič from 1941 features Nataša Gollová, who personified the role of Zuzanka, the heiress of the Blue Star Hotel and Oldřich Nový in the …
February film screening at the Villa Tugendhat will present the film The African Queen from 1951. In this film, based on the novel by C. S. Forester, starring excellent Humphrey Bogart, who received the only Oscar of his rich career for his performance, along with Katherine Hepburn who was joined by Robert Morley. This exciting …
On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 19:30 a film screening will take place at the Villa Tugendhat, dedicated to a crucial work of the history of world cinema: Ten Days that Shook the World. The film screening will take place on the technical floor of the building and will be accompanied by live music, provided by Miloš Rejsek …
The Christmas film screening at the Villa Tugendhat will offer the American film directed by Frank Capra, It’s a Wonderful Life. This film is based on a short story “The Greatest Gift” by Philip Van Doren Stern. Starring legendary actors Donna Read and James Stewart (in the roles of Mary Hatch and George Bailey), who are excellently complemented …
The evening of 19 November will feature another regular film screening at the Villa Tugendhat with the opportunity to see a film adaptation of the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front. This timeless picture from 1930 is in addition to a very strong story line an excellent example of film technology of the …
Wednesday 29 October 2014 and Thursday 30 October 2014 at 20:00 The traditional film screenings series in the main living space of the Villa Tugendhat this time offers one of the classic Czech films of the 1930’s, The World Belongs To Us. The comedy, which is an allegorical representation of the struggle of good against evil, …
On Wednesday 24 September at 8 p.m., a film screening will take place in the main living room of the Villa Tugendhat. On 25 September at the same time the screening will take place on the technical floor of the villa, accompanied by live music by DJ Miloš Rejsek and Tom Holič. A compelling Faustian work by …
On Thursday 28 August 2014 at 8:00 p.m. the film Gaslight from 1944 will be screened behind the onyx wall in the main living room of the Villa Tugendhat. A mystery thriller with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in the lead roles. Young Paula Alquist marries pianist Gregory Anton and moves with him to a house where her aunt …
On Thursday 31 July 2014 at 8:00 p.m., the film Modern Times from 1936 will be screened in the main living room of the Villa Tugendhat. A story with Charles Chaplin in the lead role shows the fight of man with machines in an era that is not too favourable for people. A social satire still made with the …
Friday 27 June 2014 at 6 p.m. the garden of the Villa Tugendhat will host the second public event with a music programme and open-air cinema (more info here). From 6 p.m., live and recorded swing music and a lesson of basic swing steps will be prepared for the visitors. At 9:30 p.m., an open-air screening of …
On Thursday 26 June 2014 starting at 19:00, a special screening of the German war film will take place in the technical basement of the Villa Tugendhat. The industrial ground-floor space together the ground using surround sound will evoke submarine atmosphere. The programme will include a visit to the main living area of the villa and the …
Wednesday 28 May at 20.00 and Thursday 29 May 2014 at the same time will feature a film scrreing in the main living area of the Villa Tugendhat, this time it is Cleopatra. The film received five nominations and one Oscar for Best Cinematography in 1935. The plot takes place in the 1st century B.C.. Egyptian queen …
On Wednesday, 23 April at 20.00 and Thursday 24 April 2014 at the same time, the main living room of The Villa Tugendhat will be the venue of another film screening, the Battleship Potemkin. Although the film is purely leftist, Sergei Eisenstein was able to free himself from cheap pro-Leninist agitation and focused on illustrating the …
On Wednesday 26 March at 8 p.m. and Thursday 27 March 2014 at the same time, the main living room of Villa Tugendhat will be the venue of a film screening, after some time another Czech classic film directed by Gustav Machatý. Eroticon (1929) had lost all the taste of a scandalous adult film. However it has …
On Thursday, 31 February 2013 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tugendhat Villa will be the venue of a film screening, presenting King Kong from 1933 in the area directly behind the onyx wall.The evening screening evening will be accompanied by live music with Jiří Jelínek (saxophone & delay zoom room) and DJ Tom Holič at …
Blackmail je podle data premiéry posledním Hitchcockovým němým filmem. Zápletka nese zřejmé rysy thrilleru, který by byl později zřejmě klasifikován jako „hitchcockovský“. Blonďatá hrdinka v ohrožení, smrt ubodáním, útěk před neschopnými policisty. První vteřiny připomínají avantgardní velkoměstské symfonie Waltera Ruttmana nebo Dzigy Vertova – pohyb, město, rytmická montáž. Během úvodních osmi minut nezazní žádný dialog, postavy …
Thursday 19 December 2013 at 20:00 will be the date for the traditional Christmas screening of Casablanca in the main living area of Villa Tugendhat. Visitors‘ great interest in this film classic from 1942 helped to create a new tradition among the public events in Villa Tugendhat. Casablanca Film will be screened for the third time. …
On Wednesday, 18 December 2013 at 20:00, Some Like It Hot film screening is organized in the main living space of Villa Tugendhat. The famous combination of musical comedy, a gangster movie parody and a crazy comedy is set in 1929 and its heroes are Joe and Jerry, two musicians who are on the run from a bunch …
On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 20:00 and on Thursday 28 November at the same time, Sunset Boulevard (1950) will be screened in the interior of Villa Tugendhat. A cynical recollection of the movie business with all references and allusions, or a great film looking not only at the dark side of Hollywood dream factory. A brilliantly filmed …
Wednesday 30 October 2013 at 20:00 and Thursday 31 October at the same time will be the venue of another occasion in the series of screenings for the public in the main living areas of Villa Tugendhat. Nosferatu (1922), with an excellent performance by the demonic Max Schreck in the title role, wrote the history …
Thursday, 26 September 2013 at 7:30 p.m., the Czech premiere of „HAUS TUGENDHAT“ will take place in Villa Tugendhat as part of the regular film screenings. Directed by Dieter Reifarth; by Pandora Film GmbH & Co. Verleih KG Director and producer Dieter Reifarth made his film documentary by interweaving conversations with Tugendhat family members, former …
On Tuesday, 27 August, 2013 a film screening will be held from 8:30 p.m. by the onyx wall. This time, the presented film is “The Glenn Miller Story.” On Wednesday, 28 August 2013 the first all-evening public event will be held exclusively in the garden of the villa Tugendhat. “Farewell To Summer In Swing Rhythm” starts …
On Monday and Tuesday, 29 and 30 July at 8.30 pm, the next in our series of film screenings will take place in Villa Tugendhat. The eponymous novel by Gaston Leroux became a draft for a film, ranking among the popular topics adapted for the screen. A Hollywood adaptation from 1925 screened in the Villa Tugendhat has become …
On Monday and Tuesday, 1 and 2 July, the next in our series of film screenings will take place in the main living area directly by the onyx wall in Villa Tugendhat. Due to daylight, the screening format will change a little during the summer. Selected films will be reprised during 2 consecutive days, always at …
On Wednesday 29 May 2013, another screening from the period film series will be held in the main living space by the onyx wall in the Tugendhat Villa. The night time screening is accompanied by live music by DJ Frank Bee Fredericks. The film „The General“ (1926) directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman is …
On Wednesday 24 April 2013, two film screenings of Alfred Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW will be held in Villa Tugendhat. Viewers will be able to enjoy two hours of a visual experience and an original screenplay directly in the room by the onyx wall. Alfred Hitchcock always managed to get the absolute maximum out of his creative …
On Thursday, 28 March 2013, the living room of Tugendhat Villa will be the venue of another film screening. This time we will be showing the Adventures of Robin Hood from 1938. The most classic film version of the famous legend with pure essence of Hollywood style, recognizable from the beginning of the studios until …
Due to great success among spectators, another screening of the 1942 film Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz has been scheduled before Christmas. Casablanca takes place during World War II in the African city of the same name and is characterized not only as a war drama, but also a romantic film. Its quality was proven by many …
On Thursday, 29 November, a screening of this film will take place in the main living area directly behind the onyx wall. The film Nebeští jezdci (Sky Riders), a masterpiece directed by Jindřich Polák, is rated as the best Czechoslovak war movie ever. The film was made in the late 1960’s, even though it directly adored the …
On Wednesday, 31 October, a screening of this film will take place in the main living area directly behind the onyx wall. Bonnie and Clyde, an American film from the gangster underworld of the 1960’s, directed by Arthur Penn, is a representative of the so-called New Hollywood era. The model for the script (David Newman and Robert …
There will be another film screening in Villa Tugendhat on Wednesday 26th September 2012. This time, audience members have the opportunity to enjoy the film classic Casablanca from the year 1942, directed by Michael Curtiz. The film Casablanca takes place during World War II in the North African city of the same name. The film is …
On Wednesday, 25th of July 2012, will be a second screening in the area behind the onyx wall of the Tugendhat Villa. Film “The Big Sleep” will take the audience to the underworld atmosphere of 1940s L.A. The Big Sleep (1946), directed by Howard Hawks, is about style first and foremost. And style is something that …
The actor Oldřich Nový will utter his classic lines, “Zavřete oči, odcházím.” (Close your eyes, I’m leaving) on Wednesday 27 June 2012 on a projection screen situated directly in the main living area in Villa Tugendhat. Audience members will have the opportunity to view one of the finest films of Czechoslovak cinematography, “Kristián” (1939), at two …