Jiří Ornest

Bakaláři

Zázraky života

Dobrodružství kriminalistiky

I, Mattoni

Příběhy slavných

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Vlna

A man's life is turned upside down by the tsunami disaster. This suspenseful, almost detective-like story is se...

Hříchy pro pátera Knoxe

A Prominent Patient

In 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany has invaded C...

A Prominent Patient

In 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany has invaded C...

Racek

A famous actress arrives at her brother's estate with her son and boyfriend, a writer. There they meet young Ni...

The Golet in the Valley

In 1930s Ukraine, the desecration of a sacred bath disrupts the sex lives of Jewish villagers.

The Little Mermaid

The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal...

Dostih

The film is set in the environment of the internationally renowned Pardubice Steeplechase, with the main roles...

The Little Man

The Little Man lives happily in his little house in the Hollow Mountain. His peaceful life ends once he begins...

My Mother's Courage

The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the nar...

Hanele

Based on an autobiographical novella by Ivan Olbracht, the film tells the story of Hanele Safarová, who grows u...

Dvacátý devátý

In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions,...

Boty plné vody

Three short stories ("Zelenáči 1945", "Silvestr 1948" and "Zimní vítr 1951") about members of the SNB units gua...

The World Knows Nothing

The story takes place in the Czech-German border region in 1938. The hero Tomás Jakl marries but the marriage i...

How to Get Rid of Helenka

Radio announcer Petrícek reads the evening news in a studio. Viki, the female editor of a woman's program, is a...

A Place in the Crowd

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

Where the Early Bird Catches the Worm

A clever but often teased boy, is able to clone himself thanks to a stolen formula from a scientist. Time to ta...

UŽ

A naive village girl, Valentýna, arrives in Prague and, under dramatic circumstances, becomes reluctantly entan...

The Infinity Castle

Technical school student Pavel Brychta, arrives at a youth correctional facility located within a chateau in Ko...

Silnější než já

A story inspired by true events, the fate of a multiple juvenile murderer, takes place in an apprentice boardin...

A Matter of Days

Françoise, a French sociology student, moves to Czechoslovakia to write her thesis. She falls in love with Pave...

Nevěsta

The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about...

Big Beat

A period musical comedy set in a quiet Prague quarter at the end of the fifties. Using the western plot device...

Out of the City

A computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation.

Agáta

Three "miniatures" touching on romantic relationships between men and women from different perspectives. Matěj,...

Róza, strážné strašidlo

Just in time, Róza Riedlová returns from the grave to beneficially intervene in the life of timid Jana, who is...

Křišťálek meč

When a band of robbers menaces the realm, the Duke of the Winter Castle sends his enchanted, crystal-tipped swo...

Champions

Ice hockey is a Czech national obsession, and the country's victory over Russia in the 1969 World Championships...

Smrt na černo

Webs of Prague's post-war underworld.

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