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In 2001 and 2002, Jaroslav Stodola and his wife Dana Stodolová committed a series of violent robberies across the regions of Kutná Hora, Jindřichův Hradec and Svitavy, killing several people along the way. They would go on to give very different accounts of what happened. Petr Hátle’s drama, the first substantial fictional exploration of these events, does not endeavour to preserve that uncertainty, finding rather more to sympathise with in one of the characters than the other, but if one bears in mind that parts of it may be more fiction than fact, it’s an interesting character study, as well as one of the more unusual cinematic portraits of a marriage under stress.

Dana (Lucie Žáčková) and Jarda (Jan Hájek) – as she calls him – are not married when we first meet them. She’s the local beauty in a very small town and other men don’t understand what she’s.

Charlotte Le Bon and Anna Geislerová in Valentino with Cillian Murphy Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Sean Ellis's Anthropoid, co-written with Anthony Frewin, stars Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy with Anna Geislerová, Charlotte Le Bon, Toby Jones, Alena Mihulová, Bill Milner, Detlef Bothe, Sean Mahon, Jan Hájek, and Brian Caspe.

Sally Potter's The Party with Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Bruno Ganz, and Cherry Jones (currently starring in The Glass Menagerie at the Edinburgh Festival) and Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk with Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, and Kenneth Branagh are in store for Cillian Murphy.

Anna Geislerová: "I knew I wanted to be Lenka before I read the script." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Cédric Jimenez's adaptation of Laurent Binet's novel HHhH will star Rosamund Pike, Mia Wasikowska, Jason Clarke, Jack O'Connell, and Jack Reynor. Calvary director John Michael McDonagh had mentioned the book - which...