Ladislav Potměšil

Inspired by two fairy tales by Jan Drda, this film tells the story of young Matěj, who enjoys a good riddle. When he is chased off by a farmer for...

A woman attempts to cover up the thefts committed by the manager at the shop she works at.

The story of a practical education environment without superficiality, clichés and affectations. The film is based on a real basis and shows...

Several of the works of writer Bohumil Říha have been filmed. This novel by the pro-regime writer also inspired a children’s film,...

Drama directed by Stanislav Strnad.

In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gravely wounded political fugitive, putting himself...

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

In a suburban villa, a woman of means is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec from the Prague Liben neighborhood reports the case to Police...

Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short stories.

In modern hospitals are carried out intensive cardiac surgery. Daily operations individually comments attendant Cajthaml ... Stylized ,, dream "scene...

A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on...

Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and...

Day in the life of teenagers.

Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family...

A movie directed by Zbynek Brynych.

A beautiful, underachieving, 18-year-old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy, and takes a young girl under her wing.

A drama based on the criminal youth life in Prague during eighties.

Criminal comedy, a fourth movie from the "Chief" series.

Chronicle of frontier division Czech police (SNB) in the years 1946 - 1949.

Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state.

A crime movie directed by Zbynek Brynych.

Criminal comedy, a first movie from the "Chief" series.

The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

The year is 1943. The war is raging between the Germans and the Allies in North Africa. A truck with a Czech crew, Lieutenant Navara and six...

An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into...

After returning home from the army, Vasek (Ladislav Potmesil) has married Bozka (Eva Trejtnarová) and the couple now live at her parents'...

It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác...