Viktor Preiss

A young waitress, Dana, works in a roadside motel. She longs for the big, distant world, for beautiful things, and perhaps even for love. But her...

It doesn't help to have an exacerbated situation like a family losing their only son - killed in a motorcycle accident. His parents, however, don't...

Jack Duluth, together with Ronald Sheldon, is the owner of a wealthy publishing house and considers his co-owner to be his best friend. That's why he...

Father Harpagon is a terrible miser, for whom money is the greatest joy, it is closer to him than his own children. His son would like to marry...

The story of František Stára, a recovering alcoholic, concertmaster, and composer. After returning from alcohol rehabilitation, he...

The documentary First of May explores the more than a century-long evolution of the celebration and the meaning of this day. The structure is...

Dorota, a bad woman married the miller, out of sheer greed drives him to death. She then took the mill away from his son Peter and threw him out of...

A frightening atmosphere, full of chilling dampness and darkness, follows the fate of a desperate searcher who tries in vain to unravel the supposed...

The film consists of five parts - a live-action framing story and four distinct animated episodes - each by a different creative team and in a...

A funny animated movie based on the classic Czech tales and legend of a young clockmaker, and his jealous friend, a wisecracking Goat.

Czech teacher Peter experiences journey into the past to late 80´s to recover his true love Eliška. At present he´s nothing but...

A bitter-sweet comedy about two people who wish to live life to the full despite their age. Ota is a retired high-school teacher and at this point in...

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...

Charming, witty and smart men represent a fictitious insurance company who soon fall for an innocent-looking young woman smarter than she seems.

In a godforsaken cave, a traveling journeyman fills his pockets with gold. Voita lost his father and mother in the war and is now seeking his fortune...

Mrs Hrabětová is exactly the type of person who is called a "woman of the people". A bit of a housekeeper, a bit of a do-gooder. She suffers...

One day, a mysterious servant named Dorian appears in the hut of the magician Boniface as an inheritance from Boniface's uncle. Dorian, punished for...

At the end of the occupation, Vojta, a young worker, marries the daughter of a rich builder to protect her from being deployed to the German Reich....

One day in the life of a young taxi driver. Prague taxi driver Jarda wants to celebrate his birthday. He has everything nicely planned and under...

The film's protagonists get an opportunity to make a wish. Consequently, their lives take the path they themselves ordained. Several "coincidences"...

The cheerful fairy tale takes us to the first category of hell, inhabited by mischievous devils, and the second category of hell with dirty devils....

Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become...

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

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

The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of...

How entertaining it is to toy with human destinies and outwit one another with witty conversation and gallant banter! This realization shines in the...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our history textbooks try to tell us? What if Master Jan...

A small television comedy about a revolutionary invention called a "transmutator" that allows a person to transform into an animal. An impractical...

Honza doesn't have it easy. Being a servant to the stingy Mr. Bařtipán is almost unbearable. Honza figured that out too, even though it took...

It is summer 1944. The war is far away from Slovak mountains for the time being. The head of forest management Borodác brings a new employee...

Drug dealer Šárlí ended up with a knife in his liver during a drunken brawl as a group of teenagers left a pub late at night....

A television adaptation of the poetic play by Vítězslav Nezval. The love story of the knight de Grieux and the sinful saint Manon was staged...

This loose sequel to the fairy tale Crossed Swords reunites you with the clever and brave Princess Alexandra, who is now accompanied by her loyal and...

The third and final installment of the fairy-tale fencing comedies Crossed Swords and Ringing Swords. Once again, they are full of intrigue and...

Today's story takes place in distant California, but it could just as easily happen here. It tells of dangerous intrigues, accusations, and slander...

The two-part play is based on motifs from the novel by Romanian classic George Călinescu.

Original staging of an opera composed based on William Shakespeare's comedy "The Merry Wives of Windsor".

Irena is the energetic owner of a thriving business. However, after a serious car accident, she decides to sell her company and donate the proceeds...

The story of Czech architect Jan Letzel, who designed the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima

A story that takes place during Advent, we'll meet again with your favorite pair angel Petronel and devil Urias. Their eternal wrangling causes the...

A television adaptation of Jan Neruda's short stories The Bachelor and Mr. Carpet's Marriage.

This production of Ostrava TV Studios was inspired by actual events which occurred in the Ostrava region of Moravia during the 1920s and 1930s. A...

Based on a play by French playwright Georges Feydeau. This comedy, often defined as a farce, has an incredible pace, with its transformations...

The life story of Blessed Zdislava of Lemberk, about whom legends rather than sparse historical references tell us that she was a deeply religious...

What could the fairies be missing, anyone who sees those three lovely elderly ladies living happily in their castle in the middle of a beautiful...

The story of royal twins and their different personalities. Is the person who thinks primarily of themselves happy, or can we only find true...

A fairy-tale comedy about how a king decided to marry off both of his daughters on the same day. Princess Zlata is a true beauty who has no shortage...

A fairy tale based on Charles Deulin's story about how dancing was forbidden in the castle, yet every morning there was a pile of worn-out shoes in...

Princess Antonia rules harshly, squeezing her subjects, but the royal treasury benefits. The success of her reign fills Antonia with unchristian...

Gone are the days when Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte won battles, received ovations, and felt like a victor. All good things must come to an end, and...

Viktor Preiss in the role of Father Toufar in a fictional reconstruction of the background to the so-called Čihošť miracle.

Harpagon is a wealthy man, but he rules his household with a greedy fist. He skimps on everything, tyrannizes and restricts his children and staff....

Young English gentleman Richard travels with his uncle Archibald to Prague, Czech kingdom. There he meets a beautiful girl Olivia, a young noblewoman...

A detective story set in New York in the 1920s.

A comedy from the hotel where it all began and ended.

A young high school student is flying to Canada for a study abroad program. He is very excited and does not even notice the subconscious fear of his...

A fairy tale about a little girl so tiny that she could almost be hidden in the palm of your hand. But you wouldn't believe what she could do! A...

This time, Captain Vašátko of the criminal police and Horác, a painter, bohemian, and amateur detective, will be searching for...

During a fishing trip, detective Vašátko and his friend, painter Horác, casually track down the murderer of a young hitchhiker.

Captain Vašátko of the criminal police and Horác, a painter, bohemian, and amateur detective, escape the stresses of life by...

Commissioner Vašátko meets painter Horác while on vacation at a mountain cabin. A diverse group of guests has gathered here,...

Horace was a guest at the home of his old friend Zdeněk, who lived in a secluded house on the shore of a lake with his current wife and his ex-wife....

Captain Vašátko of the criminal police and Horác, a painter, bohemian, and amateur detective, are searching for the murderer of...

Capturing the dark humor of Czech author Michal Viewegh's chronicle of life after the Velvet Revolution, this black comedy chronicles three decades...

Emperor Francis Joseph I is about to arrive in Prague, and among those who came to Stromovka to welcome him is Veronika Pavlitová. She wants...

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...

The film was made during the 600-kilometer St. James' Way pilgrimage undertaken by Jan Dušek with his friends and film crew. The catch is that...

She was once the wife of an important man, lived in a beautiful house in Hradčany, and was friends with the famous race car driver Eliška...

This distinctive documentary portrait of Prague extolls the beauty, significance and spirit of the ancient city adopting modern way of life. The form...

A poor girl named Sanchika longs to find a mysterious treasure hidden in the rocks. In the end, she realizes that the greatest treasure, love, can be...

A seemingly complicated story about the search for the murderer of two dead people who are first found, only to disappear again shortly afterwards....

In the mid-eighties, screenwriter and director Jaroslav Balík tried to give voice to the problems of an ambitious young woman who decides to...

A recording of the final performance of the famous production of G. Feydeau's comedy, directed by Jiří Menzel, which was successfully...

It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. For them this is the year one. One of them,...

During his routine work, Martin Urmann, employee of an advertising agency, discovers a series of cryptic messages inscribed by the architect into his...

Boccaccio's famous Decameron brings ten beautiful stories that were told to pass the time by those who escaped from certain death from Florence when...

It is certainly no coincidence that Lady Chatterley's Lover was written after World War I, in 1928. What else but the incredible, hitherto...

Commissioner Bartošek is visited by Dr. Goldberg, who reports the disappearance of his friend, the famous actor Benda. From the flimsy...

The story takes place in a metallurgical plant where important technological changes are being made while the plant is in full operation. However, a...

Against the petty, which places its own glory above honest work and honest human relationships. Čapek's Foltýn is from the family of...

It is quite common in fairy tales for princes to rescue enchanted princesses. If they succeed, they usually marry the princess in question, and the...

A directors autobiography about his debut during the rise of socialism.

Blind Mimi and Lisa are best friends. They learn from each other to approach the world and its diversity with generosity, tolerance, and openness. In...

Tom (4 years old), Suzanne (8) and Derek (10) spend the weekend with their grandparents. But nothing is as usual: Grandpa seems to be elsewhere; Tom...

The film based on the poem by Aimé Césair was created for a series of one-minute-long films inspired by the poems of this French poet...