The Emperor and the Golem

The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him.

May Stars

May 1945. On the outskirts of Prague, ordinary people meet Soviet soldiers-liberators with tears of

Black Saturday

In this crime story, surprisingly, neither the all-powerful criminals nor the spies or saboteurs are

Králíci ve vysoké trávě

Ten-year-old Martin attends religion at school and is always an altar boy at church. That's the wish

Hrozné dítě

A Place in the Crowd

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feeli

Martin and Nine Fools

Captain Martin from the police's child department and his colleague Kraus are called to Znojmo to he

Vendelin's Purgatory and Paradise

The comedy "Vendelin's Purgatory and Paradise" contains the amusing experiences of the Zemlicka fami

The Blue Star Hotel

It all begins when Zuzanka, the new young owner, arrives at the dilapidated Blue Star Hotel. Determi

Witchhammer

In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confe

Girl from the Beskids

The families of Vavruš Cagala and Cyril Hanulík live in a secluded area in the Beskydy Mountains. Va

Paní Kačka zasahuje...

Okouzlená

In the garden of Hojtaš's estate, local dignitaries gather to watch a theatrical performance starrin

Jan Výrava

Na Svatém Kopečku

Čekanky

Intern Plichta arrives to work at a country estate, where there is a strict ban on marriage for offi

Venoušek a Stázička

Páté kolo u vozu

Although the emancipated editor of a women's magazine proclaims that grandparents in particular shou

Horký vzduch

A tragicomedy set in a village where it depicts a diverse assemblage of old geezers spending the aut

Prosím, pane profesore!

Mist on the Moors

Mist on the Moors examines fates of just about a few people. Their stories are outlined in a short s

To byl český muzikant

Teacher František Kmoch is suspended because he plays at dances or composes at night. He forms a ban

Vzbouření na vsi

The new era brings with it progress, which must inevitably penetrate even the most remote corners. I

The Green Notebook

Businessman Karel Bočan is a swindler who writes down the debts of his victims in a green notebook.

Wild Beasts

Building a bridge is no simple matter. The city council has to decide between two competing proposal

A Week in the Quiet House

A sometimes humorous, sometimes more serious look at the hustle and bustle of a house in Lesser Town

Men Without Wings

After an attack against the guard of the Third Reich, Nazi repression intensifies, and the Czechoslo

Vstanou noví bojovníci

The leader of the emerging organized labor movement in the 1880s, Ladislav Zápotocký-Budečský, is ex

The Trap

The course of an organized strike by workers from North Moravian steelworks in 1931 to resist mass l

The Trap

The drama from the time of the Nazi occupation begins at the train station, where a transport with G

Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy

Four short stories by the greatest Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek. "Soup for Poor Children" tells the

Shoesmachine

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons

Zlatý pavouk

A man was killed while trying to leave Czechoslovakia. One and a half kilograms of gold was found on

Zaostřit prosím!

A Czech satirical comedy, filmed according to a script by the State Prize laureate Jiří Marek based

Neviňátka

Against All

After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start

Děti na zakázku

Dentist Dr. Matys employs two laboratory assistants, brothers Alois and Benjamin Zoubkova. They also

V horách duní

A war drama about the anti-Nazi resistance in the early spring of the last year of the war. German v

Průlom

A small Czech town in the 1860s. The townspeople once made a fortune from the proceeds of gold mines

Capek's Tales

Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.

Lízino štěstí

Zdenka Sulanová has grown from a leggy frog into an attractive young lady in the two years since the

Paní Morálka kráčí městem

Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph

Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertisin

Tetička

Rich spinster Berta celebrates her sixtieth birthday. Her faithful admirer Dr. Jelinek proposes. But

Občan Brych

František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and gr

Jan Hus

The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti vše

Z českých mlýnů

The settlement of the young dream

The White Disease

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justifi

Ještě svatba nebyla...

At the annual festival in Strážnice, long-time rivals - cooperative members from the neighboring mun

Zvony z rákosu

The North Bohemian town of Chudoplesy in the middle of the 19th century: the only local industry is

Dva týdny štěstí

Young civil servant Marta Urbanová wins a two-week stay at a luxury hotel. While looking for a typin

Minulost Jany Kosinové

Teď zas my

The factory owner Hložek is in a constant dispute with his son Jiří. Jiří wants to modernize the fac

Ženy u benzinu

Milada Dvořáková is about to get married to her business partner Dub, a gas station owner. When she

Pantáta Bezoušek

Country man Josef Bezoušek has gone to Prague for an extended visit to his lawyer son's family. His

Pražský flamendr

Dvojí život

Střevíčky slečny Pavlíny

Preludium

Theater props maker Karel Vajgant has a young wife, Magda, and two children, seven-year-old Pavlík a

Man from the Unknown

While in Bohemia, an American industrialist named Craigs goes missing. In Prague, the police have ar

Městečko na dlani

Tragicomic events in the idyllic town of Rukapán reveal both the prejudices of the local residents a

O ševci Matoušovi

The revolutionary year of 1848 brought great hopes among the hitherto silent classes, awakening soci

The Portrait

People are afraid of the usurer Chazaj and are convinced that he is the bearer of evil. One day Chaz

Magical River

Leopold Kohák married a rich widow a long time ago and now has nothing to do compared to his energet

13th district

Inspector Cadek from the 13th police station should keep an eye on the released safe-cracker nicknam

Housle a sen

The biographical film about the prematurely deceased violin virtuoso Josef Slavík takes place entire

Nadlidé

Such an hour-long probe into the conditions in Czechoslovakia during the occupation. Here it is in t

The Musician

The Stolen Border

Czech film tells the story of a border town in World War II. Family members and friends become enemi

Hostinec „U kamenného stolu“

An innkeeper is grieving because his wife left him for a second-rate actor. His two nephews, who are

Racek Is Late

Baker Jan Racek (Vladimír Repa) is a very hard-working and sensible man. His great passion is pigeon

Mordová rokle

A new owner of the estate, Konrád Ritter von Schiess, arrives in the Czech village of Sluky. On his

Early Days

Early Days follows the early life of famous Czech writer Alois Jirásek. Jirásek had already develope

Usměvavá zem

Kam s ním?

Based on Jan Neruda's column of the same name, which depicts the troubles of an old straw man. The f

Po noci den

A Czech art film set in a modern village. The main character of the film is Karla Tolarová, a worker

Pochodně

Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly pa