Bedřich Karen

The Strike

In late 19th century Czech-speaking Bohemia, oppressed workers at German-owned mines and foundries revolt again...

Mikoláš Aleš

A biographical film about the famous Czech painter Mikoláš Aleš, portrayed as part of the vanguard of the worki...

Kidnapped

American agents hijack a plane on the Ostrava-Prague route to launch a campaign against the People's Democratic...

The White Disease

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

The Devil's Trap

A small town is one day visited by a priest who is there on a secret mission. He is a member of the Inquisition...

Jan Hus

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

The Good Soldier Švejk

Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up o...

Velké dobrodružství

A biographical film about the traveler Emil Holub, conceived as an illustrative story of an exceptional man, wh...

Posel úsvitu

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

The Merry Wives

A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out abou...

Against All

After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving the...

From My Life

The film, in individual episodes, captures the fate of Bedřich Smetana from 1856 until the end of his life, fro...

Mnichovo srdce

Anna the Proletarian

The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I.

Výstraha

In the last days of the war, American planes bomb a synthetic gasoline plant in the Sudetenland. The workers ar...

That Kind of Love

A student commits suicide out of unhappy love to a married man; story is recounted in retrospective by a "judge...

Colonel Svec

Colonel Švec (original Czech title: Plukovník Švec) is a 1930 Czechoslovak historical war drama. It was a major...

The Dogheads

Jánošík

Janosík, a friar retrained as a bandit, becomes the farmers' symbol of resistance and fight against the feudal...

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