Vojta Plachý-Tůma

Ministerstvo strachu

Man in Outer Space

An upholsterer who is preparing a rocket for takeoff accidentally jettisons himself into space and returns to E...

Jan Hus

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

Dva ohně

A socialist drama from the time of the February coup. The owner of the brickyard will use several workers befor...

Wild Beasts

Building a bridge is no simple matter. The city council has to decide between two competing proposals, one of w...

Posel úsvitu

A biographical film about a Czech mechanic and designer who was the first in the Czech lands to construct a ste...

A Game Without Rules

A robbery in a Prague jeweler's shop results in the shop manager Kubát and his deputy Litera being shot and wou...

Red Lizard

Grammar school teacher Bláha hurts himself in pursuit of a red lizard, and is lying unconscious in the lonely h...

Kariéra

Karel Kubat, the successful director of the Globus printing house, learns on his fiftieth birthday that he has...

Jan Žižka

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

Záhady aneb S Karlem Čapkem v soudní síni

Warriors of Faith

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

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...

Tank Brigade

The fate of a tank crew on the most difficult part of the First Czechoslovak Independent Brigade's combat path...

The Trap

The course of an organized strike by workers from North Moravian steelworks in 1931 to resist mass layoffs duri...

Darounická poudačka

Against All

After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving the...

Vzbouření na vsi

The new era brings with it progress, which must inevitably penetrate even the most remote corners. It has also...

Případ Z-8

The workers at the ironworks are working to fulfill a two-year plan. The spy group takes advantage of the bitte...

Strakatí andělé

Three stories (Gabriela, Eda and Jana), two of which are dedicated to girls. They share a common motif of disil...

Lidé jako ty

A "fairly ordinary and mundane" working day in various operations of large steel mills...

Powder and Petrol

The Voskovec and Werich duo play a peculiar pair - a clumsy coach driver and an equally clumsy traffic policema...

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