Movies

In early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed in the hands of...

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

Seventh form pupils at a grammar school in Přívlaky are preparing for a secondary school sports competition. Class creep Krhounek gives...

Josef Houbička, the owner of the U pěti veverek apartment building in Malostran, is a kind and forgiving good man who allows himself to be...

A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it...

A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still...

Film about famous poet Karel Hynek Mácha

Small stories from a grammar school.Děj je poskládán z celé řady epizod, které během jednoho...

The doomed love of a city girl caught in the vise of poverty is detailed in Vavra’s fluid, romantic work, one of the most elegant creations of...

"Grandmother" is a highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. It's a classical, compulsory reading in...

Ríša, a student of law, neglects his studies in favour of parties and pranks. His angry father refuses to continue helping him out of...

Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.

"The Rally" is based on a communist writer Vaclav Řezáč's well-written novel of the same name

A czech film that focuses on an unfaithful husband who married in to money, as well as an impoverished man who is turns to theft.

Venice Film Festival 1940

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats...