Viktor Očásek

Hříšní lidé města pražského

The Strike

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

Lemonade Joe

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

Happy End

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

Distant Journey

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian ma...

The Poacher's Foster Daughter or Noble Millionaire

Elén, a girl living with her mother and stepfather in a secluded forest, has a great singing talent. On her twe...

A Case for a Rookie Hangman

Lemuel Gulliver has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the...

Murder in the Excelsior Hotel

In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates the murder...

Jan Hus

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

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...

Maturita za školou

The short story film follows the fate of three young men who will soon have to decide what to do with their liv...

Velké dobrodružství

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

Burglar and Umbrella

In the morning twilight of Prague, the dead body of the safe-breaker Toufar is found floating on the river Vlta...

Rodinné trampoty oficiála Tříšky

The plump, punctual and slightly despotic Mr. Tříška worked as a housing officer, which completely damaged his...

The Good Soldier Švejk

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

Straw Hat

Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to ma...

Silent Barricade

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

Capek's Tales

Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.

Way Leading to Happiness

Despite her father's protests, Vlasta Tomešová wants to become a tractor driver. However, before her first plow...

Jan Žižka

The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.

Warriors of Faith

After the Battle of Lipany, the remnants of the Hussite troops concentrated under the leadership of Jan Roháč o...

Touha Sherlocka Holmese

Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa orchestra, b...

The Motive for Murder

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

Women Offside

Kastl is a hairdresser but his real passion is his second job as football referee. This job takes all his free...

Temno

The Counter-Reformation period: Myslivec Machovec is forced by representatives of the Jesuit order to flee his...

The Secret of a Great Narrator

The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not hide his ad...

Year of the Revolution 1848

The Czech revival movement is divided at the end of the first half of the 19th century. While the older generat...

Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph

Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertising slides an...

Mikoláš Aleš

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

Early Days

Early Days follows the early life of famous Czech writer Alois Jirásek. Jirásek had already developed his own v...

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...

Občan Brych

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

Až se vrátíš...

In an unsightly tenement house, the walls of which are as peeling as the souls of the tenants, an old woman wai...

Hrdinové mlčí

The younger brother of a brave paratrooper killed by the Nazis joins a partisan unit to avenge his death. The s...

Parohy

Oldřich Nový was and will forever remain the embodiment of charm, elegance and personal charm for Czech cinema,...

About The People Around The Table

Miloš Kopecký comments on himself in the roles of restaurant guests who suffer from various social ills. This s...