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Works explorer

The Joke = Zert [NTSC]

Czechoslovakia, 1968
film

Based on Milan Kundera’s novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, “The Joke” is a blunt parable about the Stalinist era’..

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

The Unbearable lightness of being

United States, 1988
Similarity: 71%

The Firemen's ball = Hori, ma paneko

Czechoslovakia, 1967
Similarity: 69%

The Satiric eye

United States, 1971
Similarity: 68%

Jan Svankmajer. - Volume 2.

Czechoslovakia, 1990
Similarity: 67%

To see or not to see

Canada
Similarity: 67%

A Blonde in love = Loves of a blonde

Czechoslovakia, 1966
Similarity: 67%

The Last stone = Posledny kamen

Czechoslovakia, 1982
Similarity: 67%

Lemonade Joe [NTSC]

Czechoslovakia, 1964
Similarity: 67%

About nothing = O nicem

Czechoslovakia, 1966
Similarity: 67%

Without anesthesia = Bez znieczulenia [NTSC]

Poland, 1978
Similarity: 67%

Nonsense = Nesmysl

Czechoslovakia, 1974
Similarity: 66%

The Kingdom of Humour

Australia, 2003
Similarity: 66%

The Shop on High Street = Obchod na korze

Czechoslovakia, 1965
Similarity: 66%

Mime over matter

Czechoslovakia, 1970
Similarity: 66%

Capricious summer = Rozmarne leto [NTSC]

Czechoslovakia, 1964
Similarity: 66%

The Extinct world of gloves

Czechoslovakia, 1982
Similarity: 66%

The Carp = Saran

Yugoslavia, 1980
Similarity: 66%

The Elementary school = Obecna skola

Czechoslovakia, 1991
Similarity: 66%
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