Karel Sekera

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Why?

Why? (Czech: Proč?) is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Smyczek. It was screened in the Un Cert...

Sokolovo

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

Pan Tau – der Film

Pan Tau, the friend of all children, now also helps the adults. A movie producer is in trouble and decides to s...

The Day That Shook the World

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

Dvacátý devátý

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

Piloti

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

My Brother Has a Cute Brother

Honza Pavelka (Jan Hrusínský) wins the junior motorbike speed races. His thirteen-year-old brother Martin (Roma...

Four Murders Are Enough, Darling

Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the fl...

Vítězný lid

February 1948. The struggle of decisive social forces for the heart of Europe.

And Give My Love to the Swallows

This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova)...

Jen láska

Mark of Cain

In 1866, as Austria faces war with Prussia, 19-year-old Ludvík Machl joins a secret Czech resistance group. Whe...

Dům Na poříčí

The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding...

Cesta na jihozápad

Based on a Jack London story, this is another attempt at a Western spectacle - after the short story triptych T...

Quiet American in Prague

In the era of normalization, even seemingly buried agent stories came back. This one takes place in the immedia...

Outsider

Elementary school student Jožka has a great love – horses. He is looking forward to turning this love into a pr...

A Hoof Here, a Hoof There

A striking generational tragicomedy, A Hoof Here, a Hoof There is a caustic group portrait of pals who enjoy a...

Komediant

Saxony, devastated by the Thirty Years' War, is led by the comedy troupe of the principal Fortunato. The studen...

Člověk není sám

A dedicated chairwoman of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in cooperation with a StB major clears a politi...

Rytíř

Lakomec

Father Harpagon is a terrible miser, for whom money is the greatest joy, it is closer to him than his own child...

Oliver Twist

The fate of little Oliver, from life among the coffins, through a stay with the thief Fagin, to his fatal parti...

Statečný Azmun

In a seaside village, fishermen have no catch and are starving. The bravest of them, Azmun, sets off to the lan...

Svítalo celou noc

The Czech film Svítalo All Night was made to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the liberation of Czechoslovak...

Tichý svědek

Chán Sulejmán a víla Fatmé

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