Jiřina Šejbalová

The fate of the insignificant poet Leonard Undene is transposed into the media atmosphere of the late 1960s. An ironic image of the times, a black...

A family is spending a hot summer evening at the cottage. The grandmother watches a TV that doesn't work on and off. Her daughter and son-in-law are...

After many decades in Germany, Marie Hahn will come to Prague to meet her relatives and friends. She learns unflattering information about her...

Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building's attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German...

The story of a poor, disintegrating family of a mother Fišerová and her three children. It is set in the 1890s - a time when the poor...

The water fairy Rusalka falls in love with an earthly prince. In vain, Father Aquarius warns her. Her sincere feelings are met with human treachery...

It is almost twenty years after the war. Wounds of the past that have never fully healed, but are still carried by many in their hearts. Marie...

Twelve-year-old Jana returns from the hospital. She notices some changes at home and is worried that her parents are going to divorce. In reality,...

This lyrical comedy story takes place in two hot days in the small South Bohemian village. On the shore of a small pond, summer guests and local...

Two secretaries go out on a double date, but the inexperienced Mary flees when offered money for sexual favors. She takes refuge in a cafe and...

The puppy wakes up at night due to strange unpleasant noises. The sounds don't stop, but eventually the puppy manages to fall asleep. In the morning...

The holiday story revolves around the children of editor Hlavsa and their desire to get a dog. Dad bravely faces his children's wish and all he cares...

Mrs Rokos is a grandmother in her age, lives with her son's family and feels useless, that no one needs her. Therefore, she decides to move from...

The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial...

Venice Film Festival 1939

Set in a 1950s Moravian wine village, an elderly Josef, guided by his quirky life philosophy and humor, recalls key moments from his past. Across...

Mother-Hen

The sore and tender hearts of a young couple with a toddler are explored in this drama. The little girl, four years old, is not aware that she is...

The suffocating conditions in a bourgeois family were depicted in several films in the second half of the 1950s - this one is one of the lesser...

A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it...

Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague.

At the beginning of normalisation in the 1970s, the appearance of ideologically tinged stories intensified, but there were also attempts to create...

The dramatization of the Old Prague short story by the writer Ignát Herrmann is an acting concert by Jan Pivec. In this film from 1964, the...

A student commits suicide out of unhappy love to a married man; story is recounted in retrospective by a "judge" who asks the audience to decide who...

Three friends from a wet neighbourhood come back from the pub properly stoned and decide to continue partying at the home of one of them, because he...

After inheriting a villa from his uncle, Emil Tuma meets its strange inhabitants, getting him in trouble.

František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and grows increasingly alienated, even as his...

Second half of the 19th century. In a small town in South Bohemia, fifth-former Jan Ratkin is living through the confusions of first love together...

This satirical micro-comedy condemns the petty bourgeois mentality, especially bragging. The ridiculous protagonists are two elderly neighbours who...