Alois Švehlík

In the era of normalization, even seemingly buried agent stories came back. This one takes place in the immediate post-war years and tells the story...

Approaches to important life values can vary: while the top athlete who has made it in cycling tries to monetise his talent, his brother cannot...

A drama that tells the story of the physician and politician MUDr. František Kriegel, the hero of the Prague Spring of 1968, who was arrested...

A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when...

Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Technical auxiliary battalions, aka "the black...

In a South Bohemian village in the middle of silver ponds and dark forests lives Jindřich (Radek Valenta), who one day goes out into the world with...

Happily ever after has a bumpy start for a young couple in a magical land when the husband is sent off to battle by a jealous prince.

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

Even great love does not necessarily overcome a difference of morals - although the young hero is very much in love, he still rejects the comfortable...

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...

Salzburg, Germany, 2000. The elderly Czech actress Lída Baarová tells a journalist the tumultuous story of her rise to fame in 1930s...

A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end...

A theatrical production by the independent theater company JEDL from Divadlo X10. The proven trio of creators...

Honzík has to spend his holidays with his grandfather because his divorced mother is very busy. However, she doesn't want her father, a former...

In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a...

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

A story about how it is sometimes very easy to make a bad decision, but very difficult to make up for it... Prince Philip managed to sacrifice his...

Three detective stories from industrial Ostrava. Police search in vain for a missing 16-year-old girl, but succeed in finding a mentally disturbed...

When Vojtěch Hynais, who lived in Paris in the 1880s, received an offer to paint the curtain for the National Theater, he accepted it. However, his...

Three stories from the school environment, mostly from the perspective of teachers. In the first story we see an unnecessarily strict teacher, in the...

The problematic protagonist is the head designer of a housing association who wants to make a profit at any cost. His unwitting opponent is a bar...

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In...

The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the White Mountain disaster. It depicts his...

Centurion Kubát, of Czech origin, is staying in the camp of the Habsburg army, which is suppressing the Great French Revolution in France. He...

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 story of a young man who found the meaning of love and a place in life at the cost of a loss.

A dramatic episode from the life of Czech philologist and historian Josef Dobrovský, a leading figure of the national revival.

A group of children are investigating a chain of mysterious events during the seventies.

Ten-year-old David joins a sailing club. He trains hard and helps repair the sailing boats, but people have to take turns actually sailing. The club...

The town is waking up. The bus driver Josef Král is saying goodbye to his wife Vera who is in a state of advanced pregnancy. At the rolling...

Film deals with domestic violence in the family..from psychological coercion to physical abuse. The story is not unique. Olga (Ivana...

The film tells the story of an entrepreneur who, after going bankrupt, leaves the city to join his father in the countryside. His father is a guide...

A black comedy about suicides. Good old England, 1937—a spooky night scene on the moors, silhouettes of trees, the distant silhouette of a...

The story is based on Operation Stone, during which State Security agents deliberately misled citizens of the Czechoslovak Republic who were...

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...

In December 1437, Emperor Sigismund, King of Bohemia and Hungary, returns from Prague to Hungary. Due to a prolonged illness, he stops with his...

A fairy tale about a queen-witch who used magic to get rid of her royal husband and carefully guards her throne so that the marriage of her stepson,...

Jan Vacek, a revolutionary of Czech origin, organizes the retreat of communist troops in Baku after the Bolshevik Revolution, following the fall of...

On the eve of the German Peasants' Revolt, painter Joerg Ratgeb is occupied by a crisis of his own: finding a model for a Christ figure. He sets off...

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

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

The knight Johannes rides to his new lands, which the king has given him for his bravery in battle. On the way to his castle, he learns that the...

Situated in Prague, a 20-year-old Vietnamese named Song, hoped for a better future in Europe. But now in a Vietnamese district in Prague, he is...

A theatrical recording of the 1984 production of Shakespeare's famous play by the ABC Theatre, based on the first translation of this English classic...

Three soldiers desert and take refuge in an ancient, crumbling castle where three veiled maidens welcome them with a sumptuous feast, on the sole...

Placek (Josef Kemr), the head of research in a chemical plant, appreciates the help of his younger colleague Bernát (Alois Svehlík) in...

Second-rate writer Marton spends his not-yet-advanced old age in a luxurious retirement home. Apart from his grandson, who lives somewhere in...

Earth shakes from the anger of the Zmei. Raven must find a new cook for his master. On Earth he finds Veselinov - a musician and an artist, father of...

Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad...

Elementary school student Jožka has a great love – horses. He is looking forward to turning this love into a profession. However, he is...

The life story of Jan Amos Comenius, who became probably the most famous Czech exile due to his beliefs and opinions. He spent most of his life...

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau movement at the end of the 19th century....

Anna has been married to Karel for fifteen years and has a teenage daughter with him. Karel is growing distant from Anna, whose daily life consists...

The bachelor's thesis tells an original story about how children have great imaginations and their playfulness can cause all sorts of fun things to...

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

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

Řehoř lives a contented life. His wife Evženie does not. After sixty years of marriage, eighty-year-old Evženie comes to her granddaughter,...

Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family...

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

Helenka, a textile industrial student, invents an ideal man who is the envy of all her friends. The dreamy and delusional Helenka resists her...

Based on a Jack London story, this is another attempt at a Western spectacle - after the short story triptych The Canyon of Gold - about a teenage...

Biography of Karel Čapek.

The common theme of the short story film is the famous duels between two important historical figures: Pushkin and Casanova. Pushkin's tragic duel,...

The film adaptation of the novel of the same by Michal Viewegh. The hero of the novel is a primary school teacher with a successful writing career...

Based on an autobiographical novella by Ivan Olbracht, the film tells the story of Hanele Safarová, who grows up just after the First World...