Jiřina Šejbalová

Bakaláři

Sňatky z rozumu

Sňatky z rozumu was a Czechoslovak television programme which was first broadcast in 1968. The programme was di...

Muž na radnici

Muž na radnici was a Czechoslovak television program which was broadcast in 1976. The program was directed by E...

Taková normální rodinka

Taková normální rodinka was a Czechoslovak television programme which was first broadcast in 1971. The programm...

Jane Eyre

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her n...

Dobrodružství Huckleberryho Finna

Morálka paní Dulské

The suffocating conditions in a bourgeois family were depicted in several films in the second half of the 1950s...

Hostinec „U kamenného stolu“

An innkeeper is grieving because his wife left him for a second-rate actor. His two nephews, who are not on spe...

Humoreska

Dvořák's well-known composition reappears again and again in the serious moments of the lives of the father and...

Světáci

Two families live in a weaver's cottage - the Menecs and the Hroms. The women are pretty from the start. Musici...

The Best Man of All

A Czech satirical comedy set around 1900. The inhabitants of the small town of Pětice are excited by a mysterio...

Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy

Four short stories by the greatest Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek. "Soup for Poor Children" tells the story of h...

Spravedlnost pro Selvina

The fate of the insignificant poet Leonard Undene is transposed into the media atmosphere of the late 1960s. An...

Men About Town

Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague.

Tchyně

This satirical micro-comedy condemns the petty bourgeois mentality, especially bragging. The ridiculous protago...

August Sunday

This lyrical comedy story takes place in two hot days in the small South Bohemian village. On the shore of a sm...

Story of Souls

The dramatization of the Old Prague short story by the writer Ignát Herrmann is an acting concert by Jan Pivec....

Kavárna na hlavní třídě

On his first day in a new place, waiter Josef Kučera stands up for his old servant Bartoš and bellhop Svát. His...

Nezralé maliny

A story about a meeting of high school graduates from Písek, a story about the enduring power of friendship, lo...

Jestřáb kontra Hrdlička

A story about the conditions in Bohemia in the second half of the nineteenth century, when small-town officials...

Náš dědek Josef

Set in a 1950s Moravian wine village, an elderly Josef, guided by his quirky life philosophy and humor, recalls...

Every Penny Counts

After inheriting a villa from his uncle, Emil Tuma meets its strange inhabitants, getting him in trouble.

Rusalka

The water fairy Rusalka falls in love with an earthly prince. In vain, Father Aquarius warns her. Her sincere f...

From Saturday to Sunday

Two secretaries go out on a double date, but the inexperienced Mary flees when offered money for sexual favors....

Místenka bez návratu

It is almost twenty years after the war. Wounds of the past that have never fully healed, but are still carried...

Ženitba

Romeo, Juliet and Darkness

Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building's attic. Amidst...

The Masked Lover

A romantic story of a noble lady who wanted to live without the bonds of marriage, but her desire for a child l...

Wolf Trap

An orphaned young woman named Jana moves into the household of Robert and his older, possessive wife, Klára. Wh...

Občan Brych

František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and grows increas...

Talenty a ctitelé

Policejní hodina

The story of a poor, disintegrating family of a mother Fišerová and her three children. It is set in the 1890s...

That Kind of Love

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

Láska jako trám

An elderly couple is planning a big family gathering. The husband is thinking about what he can do to make his...

Vilém Rozkoč

Zlatá svatba

At the beginning of normalisation in the 1970s, the appearance of ideologically tinged stories intensified, but...