How well do you know Jiří Menzel’s films? Test your knowledge in QUIZ!

Jiří Menzel has had a long career. He began directing films in the 1960s, when he also made the Oscar-winning Closely Watched Trains. Since then, he has introduced the world to many other successful films that have become an integral part of Czech culture – among them, for example, the Snowdrop Festival, In Solitude by the Forest and Vesničko má středisková.

How well do you know Jiří Menzel’s films? In the following quiz, you can test your knowledge by assigning a message to the right movie. On the next page you will find the results so that you can verify that you answered correctly.

1. This, in turn, will be charged in the alley.

a.) I served the King of England

b.) Cuts

c.) Snowdrop festivities

2. Are you bored? Buy a raccoon teddy bear.

a.) Cuts

b.) Whimsical summer

c.) Donšajni

3. Chčije a chčije.

a.) Larks on a thread

b.) The village has a resort

c.) In solitude by the forest

4. How beautiful it would be if I wasn’t here.

a.) The end of old times

b.) Snowdrop Festival

c.) Beads at the bottom

5. This way of summer seems a bit unfortunate to me.

a.) Whimsical summer

b.) Wonderful men with a handle

c.) The village has a resort

6. You made love again, didn’t you, Doctor?

a.) In solitude by the forest

b.) The village has a resort

c.) The end of old times

7. I got fifteen years. But because there was an amnesty, I only served fourteen and three-quarters of a year.

a.) Closely watched trains

b.) Cuts

c.) I served the King of England

8. Not to think of having children.

a.) Cuts

b.) Larks on a thread

c.) Audience

9. These are dog fleas, they do not go to humans.

a.) In solitude by the forest.

b.) Snowdrop Festival

c.) Whimsical summer

10. Do you know what Czechs are? Laughing beast!

a.) I served the King of England

b.) The village has a resort

c.) Closely watched trains

You will find the correct answers on the other side.

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