Movies

Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I --...

As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and...

The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers...

An anthology of three absurd, ironic tales inspired by Čapek’s “Tales from One Pocket” and “Fables and Side...

It all starts when two men arrive at the asylum. Mr. Houdek, who goes to see little Honzik Slavata, the illegitimate child of his colleague, whom he...

This two-partfilm was made in connection with the visit of Soviet collective farmers to agricultural cooperative in Mělnické Vtelno. They...

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

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

The story takes place at the time when Giacomo Casanova, probably the most famous conqueror of women, held the position of librarian at the...

On her fifteenth birthday, when mermaids are allowed to sail above the sea for the first time, the little mermaid saves the life of a handsome...

The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The...

A group of wealthy American Jewish businessmen have been captured by the SS and are told that they are to be traded to the American army for several...

Television lighting engineer Honza borrows an apartment from successful architect Zdeněk so that he can meet his love Marta alone. The architect...

The miner Dařbuján has a lot of children that he cannot support and another one has just been born. He needs to find a godfather and...

After the Battle of Lipany, the remnants of the Hussite troops concentrated under the leadership of Jan Roháč of Dubé at Sion...

A Czech satirical comedy set around 1900. The inhabitants of the small town of Pětice are excited by a mysterious package that is to be...

This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because...