Jaroslav Tomsa

Thirty Cases of Major Zema

Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda t...

Arabela

Arabela was a children's television series produced in Czechoslovakia which aired from 1979 to 1981. The series...

Stalingrad

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their numbe...

Slavné historky zbojnické

Happy End

A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a re...

My Sweet Little Village

The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-...

The Last Butterfly

Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "m...

Lemonade Joe

A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lem...

I Served the King of England

Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a...

Sokolovo

The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The fil...

The Snowdrop Festival

An episodic film about the inhabitants of Kersko, their hardships and their joys, most prominently hunting. A l...

The Medal

The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In his devotio...

The Day That Shook the World

An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be empe...

A Night at Karlstein

No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Br...

Piloti

Further east of the Dark Blue Sky, where the Heavenly Horsemen fought, the story of a Czechoslovakian fighter s...

Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even...

Hroch

The bank officer Bedrich Hroch is sent by the bank director to the zoo, which asked an allocation of one and ha...

Chain

Carefree young nurse Marta learns upon her husband's death that he was involved in all manner of criminal activ...

The Magpie in the Wisp

In the film, the creative forces of personalities from three spheres of art collide. The subtitle "The Game of...

Dobré světlo

Viktor Průcha, a successful small-town architect, lives well but knows his comfort rests on compromises. When a...

Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval

The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other...

Putování Jana Amose

The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the White Mountai...

Cutting It Short

Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to t...

Hubert the Smart Boy

Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like every lika...

Capricious Summer

Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and phil...

The Jester and the Queen

The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation - a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his...

Cesta peklem

A dramatic action film about stuntmen who perform the most dangerous stunts in the film world. One day, however...

Friday Is No Holiday

A Czech film comedy about the ordinary days of an ordinary Novák family, about the confusion of finding and the...

Long Live Ghosts!

A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught...

Love Between the Raindrops

Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cobbler named...

Joachim, Put It in the Machine

A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer ma...

Všechno nebo nic

Approaches to important life values can vary: while the top athlete who has made it in cycling tries to monetis...

The Motive for Murder

A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", Karas kills...

Ballad for a Bandit

The film version of the theatre musical production by the "Divadlo na provazku" in Brno tells the tale of legen...

Divoká srdce

The common theme of the short story film is the famous duels between two important historical figures: Pushkin...

Vítr v kapse

The main characters of the film, inspired by director Soukup's own experiences at the Škodovka factory in Pilse...