Jaroslav Plesl

Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one...

The Grand Hotel is a place between heaven and earth. A place where clouds and human desires float by. This metaphorical story is set in a famous...

The main character, Klára, can still be just as insecure and confused at forty as she was at eighteen, only it doesn't look so cute anymore....

In 1913, Czech skiing champion Bohumil Hanč perseveres alone in a fierce snowstorm during a race, collapses from exhaustion and exposure, and is...

33-year-old Roman decides to tackle his drug addiction by undergoing group therapy as part of a community holed up on an isolated farm in the...

Film crew on the road: Director (Jaroslav Plesl), his Producer (Simona Babcáková), and their Director of Photography (Jirí...

The story takes place in the small South Moravian village of Mouřínov, where the road ends. The residents long to become a "transit" village,...

Based on the popular television series Okresní přebor. As the title suggests, the film features the legendary figure of licensed coach Josef...

Private psychologist Jakub tries to help others, but he has his own problems. Then he gets to take care of his old father which starts a lot of funny...

A man decides to take the madness of the world around him as inspiration.

Based on actual events. Late 1941, Group Silver A are dropped into occupied Czechoslovakia on an SOE mission to set up a Radio communications centre...

A comedy about how extremely difficult it is to uncover the truth through gossip and rumors. Live broadcast of Pirandello's comedy from the Dejvice...

A perfect symbiosis of two completely different ensembles. Members of the popular Dejvické divadlo theater, known for their intimate dramatic...

Autumn 1968, the Australian running record holder Ron Clarke is coming to Prague, hoping that his old friend and role model, Emil Zátopek, the...

Lev Sergeyevich Theremin was a pioneering Russian inventor whose eponymous instrument, the thereminvox, revolutionized electronic music; between 1928...

Thirtysomethings Linda, Radim, Tonda, Otakar, Dagmara and Silvie have been friends since they met as teenagers. All of them arrived in the big city,...

A detective investigating a series of murders becomes a suspect himself. He is suspended from duty and conducts his own investigation. With the quiet...

Story follows two best friend on private investigation. They are going to their hometown to prove that Michals mother was killed by his stepmother.

Three families, three festive stories. Uninvited guests, new love, and a quest for the perfect winter. 'A Christmas Story' weaves humor and holiday...

Tony has been glowing since the day he was born and it causes him a lot of trouble. Just before the Christmas, a new odd girl with thick glasses...

An overburdened working mother temporarily leaves her family and rents a spare room from a taxi driver she just met to sort out her chaotic life.

When not serving regulars at a pub in the middle of a sleepy northern Moravian village, thirtysomething Maruna spends time with hesitant Jura and...

The once-prosperous Kingdom of Three Ponds has been laid waste by a curse that stripped its waters of every fish, bringing famine and unrest to the...

Erben's original text, which did not exceed half a page in length, served Zelenka only as a source of inspiration to write a plot-rich story about...

Somewhere in the Forbidden Forest lives the evil wizard Kruciatus. A hundred years ago, he attempted to destroy the kingdom now ruled by King...

Princess Verunka's marriage is supposed to save the kingdom, which has been impoverished by the crazy ideas of its ruler. And she has several...

An exciting drama from a detective history. In 1899 a dead girl - seamstress Anežka Hrůzová - was found between the village of Věžnička...

An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to choose between her own life and her younger...

Czech Television's epic historical film draws on the breathtaking dramatic life of the great of Czech history, King Charles IV.

Radio correspondent Karel Beran returns briefly to Prague from the Middle East due to an anonymous tip, but a revolution suddenly breaks out in...

Fogi is enjoying his never ending puberty. But simultaneously Fogi is also trying to live up to his family duties and bring up Véna, his son...

In a small Czech town, mother dependent Robert, his attractive girlfriend Simona, histrionic Tomas and extremely reserved History freak Funes, all...

The heavenly student Angelo Žáček doesn't really get the theory. Would he rather prove his abilities in practice? Reforming the sinner...

At the age of twenty-eight, Karel Havlíček Borovský is at the height of his fame and political influence. He owns the largest Czech...

A couple embark on an early vacation. Left alone, their children cut loose until the boy gets caught for skipping school and things take an...

Johana navigates the ups and downs of teenage life alongside her tight-knit group of friends, each wrestling with their own first loves, family...

A TV personality returns home for her sister's wedding and realizes she still has feelings for an ex-boyfriend who is now her sister's fiancé.

The film's main theme is obsession. An obsession with love, with art, originality, copying, with success, money and... with oneself. Sooner or later,...

A writer gets into a rehab where he meets a lot of successful men who destroyed their lives with alcohol.

1950. While some people enthusiastically build a totalitarian state, others flee from it in terror. And some disappear. Just like Jarmila, the sister...

A crime case will affect the life of a famous actor.

An underdog player steps up to lead a basketball team to global success but faces fierce competition from a new opponent -- a shifting government.

Happiness is often found unexpectedly, so what? A lesbian couple raise their two children in perfect harmony when a man from the past intervenes....

35-year-old Eliska has a wedding and is waiting for her big moment. Instead of his "yes", the groom says "no" and runs away from the altar....

Jaroslav is a handsome and seemingly good-natured son, father and decent husband. But in fact he is pathologically jealous of his wife Blanka and...

This fascinating historical drama looks at the life of "the Czech Schindler," Zdenek Toman, a controversial figure who was an unsavory politician and...

Urban, an orphan, serves a greedy master watchmaker as an apprentice. When Urban grows up, he falls in love with the watchmaker's daughter Laura and...

A recording of a theater performance by the Dejvické Theater. At a half-forgotten gas station somewhere in the American Midwest, a dog has...

Oddsockeaters are small invisible creatures, responsible for socks that go missing when we only have one left from a pair. But unlike them,...

A romantic film composed of seven intertwining love stories. Couples in love offer a glimpse into their intimate private lives as they deal with...

The five-year relationship between older Michal and Veronika has reached a crossroads. While he is already planning children and a family, she feels...

Two police detectives, one a rookie and the other an experienced veteran, are far from clean. They are pursuing two criminals who are robbing small...

More than a year has passed since the last time we saw Julio Lavický (Jakub Stáfek) (yes, it was when he "sold" the match, but forgot...

Eva, a driven pastry-shop owner and single mother with a meddlesome but well-meaning mother, is thrown for a loop when her ex-husband Janá,...

This romantic comedy maps out the lives of former classmates who, despite their high school days being long past, still regularly meet up. Their...

Líba has only one birthday wish every year. She insists that the whole family come together for her celebration, which they all always do....

When a train unexpectedly changes directions, a group of eccentric passengers must work together to reach their destination safely.

The real fate of Jiří Arvéd Smíchovský, a prominent hermeticist, occultist, believer in black magic and an exceptionally...

Annička Jesenská inherits her late uncle’s dental practice in the Austro-Hungarian border town of Medov, only to find locals loyal to a...

A bitter comedy about how difficult it can be to forgive parents for their concern, reproaches, or unfulfilled expectations was filmed in Ostrava by...

Three friends from a small town - František, a doctor; Oskar, the director of the local museum; and Robert, a physical education teacher - are...

A sequel to "Vyšehrad: Fylm"(2022). Lavi’s long-awaited foreign engagement in the Vyšehrad sequel ends in fiasco when his flight...

This impressionistic film captures the uniqueness of life and creativity. An experimental feature comprising 40 distinct acting roles, each captured...