Alexander Hammid Movies

One of the great artistic forces of the 20th century, performer, choreographer, and teacher Martha Graham influenced dance around the world....

A 1945 Oscar nominated short documentary about the Library of Congress. It is one of 26 documentary shorts produced between 1942 and 1945 by the U.S....

"To Be Alive!" was designed to celebrate the common ground between different cultures by tracing how children in various parts of the world mature...

Karel Plicka was also cinematographer of this short movie. Editor in charge was Alexander Hackenschmied. There is an extraordinary emotional charge,...

We accompany the 90-year-old filmmaker Alexander Hammid on a stroll through New York, wandering with him through the outer and inner landscapes of...

A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.

On the coast of Yugoslavia lives fisherman Ivo Kralj, his wife Marie, son Vuk, and Ivo's mother in one happy home. Marie, who loves her husband and...

Andrea, the beautiful daughter of a railway gateman, is seduced by a rich passenger, who missed his train. Left pregnant, Andrea marries another man...

About a derelict and forgotten character hiding in a room somewhere in South America.

The River of Life and Death captures the slow time in the well-known Indian pilgrimage place of Benares, the act of purification by water, the...

Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village.

Madame Flora is terrified when she perceives a supernatural presence during one of her fraudulent séances...

A 13-minute documentary film depicting life in Prague.

Mimi lives with her parents and the maid Fanka in a villa near the forest. One day, a gamekeeper comes to court Mimi when her parents are away.

Youth in Canada learning to come to terms with the world in which they have to live. A picture of the journey to adulthood - a composite of many...

A school boy cannot think what to write in an essay assignment about spring. His father cannot come up with any new ideas either.

Alexander Hammid's sensitive narrative of how a pre-adolescent boy is helped by a psychiatrist to come to terms with his feelings.

This first true Czech avant-garde film turns away from a purely celebratory approach to the city. The camera follows a detached protagonist on his...

Probably the best-known advertising film for Bata, where joke and irony meet commercial purposes. Tires are sent from rural countryside to the...