Karel Jelínek

Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work...

Genre: Drama

Cast: František Peterka

Successful writer Gabriel Anděl still loves his wife Lola very much, but he can't stand the way she is always getting involved in his work, so he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oldřich Nový

Sanin, an aging Russian nobleman, recalls his unfulfilled love for a simple girl with whom he fell in love during his youthful travels, but left her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vít Olmer

The shoemaker, Lájošek Cína, is a naive good-for-nothing with his heart on his sleeve, who, as the day grows long, never leaves...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Václav Kotva

Early Days follows the early life of famous Czech writer Alois Jirásek. Jirásek had already developed his own view of the history of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eduard Cupák

In late 19th century Czech-speaking Bohemia, oppressed workers at German-owned mines and foundries revolt against their harsh working conditions....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ladislav Boháč

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Blanka Waleská

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Antonie Nedošinská

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rolf Wanka

A comedy about a small student boarding house, whose quirky and energetic owner, Miss Klatovská, takes maternal care of all her tenants,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Antonie Nedošinská

The Czech revival movement is divided at the end of the first half of the 19th century. While the older generation, such as František...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimír Ráž

The course of an organized strike by workers from North Moravian steelworks in 1931 to resist mass layoffs during the economic crisis.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Oldřich Lukeš

Melodramatic story of an innocent country girl (Ita Rina) who struggles to make a living in the city as a prostitute. As she provides last service to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ita Rina

A war drama about the anti-Nazi resistance in the early spring of the last year of the war. German villains are furiously searching for their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaroslav Průcha

A biographical film about the famous Czech painter Mikoláš Aleš, portrayed as part of the vanguard of the working class and a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karel Höger

The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The film...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zdeněk Štěpánek

A fictionalized account of Czech soldiers who fought for the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam.

Genre: War

Cast: Jaroslav Mareš

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hugo Haas

The biographical film about the prematurely deceased violin virtuoso Josef Slavík takes place entirely like a haunting dream, in the mind of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaromír Spal

The younger brother of a brave paratrooper killed by the Nazis joins a partisan unit to avenge his death. The story is still naive in many ways, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ladislav Boháč

A biographical film about a Czech mechanic and designer who was the first in the Czech lands to construct a steam car.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimír Ráž

A biographical film about the traveler Emil Holub, conceived as an illustrative story of an exceptional man, who, however, encounters the disinterest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otomar Krejča