Bolek Polívka

Gump – We Are Duo (2024)

Gump's new journey begins exactly where the previous one ended. Together with his beloved Béďa Kozí Bobek, the main animal hero goes through a story that was written for them long ago by the stars. And while Gump's first story was sadder, in its loose s ...

Dry Season (2024)

Two neighboring clans and two different approaches to life. What happens when the strained relationship of two domineering fathers interferes with the love of their own children? ...

Réveillon (2023)

What was supposed to be a joyful celebration over the dissolution of Czechoslovakia turns chaotic when the Varchal family discovers that their father betrayed both country and family by working for the secret police. The family members turn against each ot ...

Jarmila Šuláková – královna lidové písně (2023)

The Greatest Gift (2022)

In ancient times, our land was ruled by pagan gods and goddesses. But what happens when they start getting involved in people's lives and vice versa? Will Morena, the goddess of winter, win, or will she be defeated by the goddesses of spring, summer and au ...

Prince Mama's Boy (2022)

Prince Louis Ottomar Charles XII, born Noble, is very close to his loving mother, Queen Ludmilla. However, Prince Louis is already a bit too old, he is 39 years old. He's afraid of almost everything, doesn't want to get married, and spends most of his life ...

Word (2022)

Beata Parkanová, the filmmaker behind Moments, returns to Karlovy Vary with an exceptionally vivid portrait of the family of notary Václav Vojíř, a small-town moral authority, and his selfless wife Věra. This masterfully told and highly original intim ...

The Gentlemen's Club (2022)

A comedy about erotically addicted men is therapy for everyone, especially those who think they don't need therapy. At a session for erotically addicted men, Eda, the owner of a bicycle repair shop, meets Cyril, a history and physical education teacher; GI ...

Srdce na dlani (2022)

Josef is looking forward to finally fulfilling his old dream of becoming a street clown after retirement. With his charm, he charms even the vigorous Maruška, the owner of the mobile cafe. It's like the two of you have been looking for each other all your ...

Way Home (2021)

With his father's memory waning, a struggling forester must confront the troubling reality about his livelihood and his family's future. ...

Gump (2021)

A story told through the eyes of a stray dog called Gump . On a journey to find his way home to his owner, Gump encounters many challenges, meets new people, and makes a few canine friends along the way. A story about the devotion of a dog, who without hes ...

Silent Companion (2021)

To recharge after a divorce, a woman returns to her home village, which faces a bizarre problem. The cemetery has run out of room. ...

Pan herec Miroslav Donutil (2021)

Lakomec (2020)

Accumulating money through usury and self-denial is Harpagon's passion and ostentatiously displayed purpose in life. He loves money more than his good name, honor, and dignity. His wealth is more important to him than his own children. He plans to marry hi ...

The Secret of Karma (2020)

The story of a man who sees his past lives from before he was born after being declared dead for the second time. ...

Ženská na vrcholu (2019)

Helena, a free-spirited single café owner, takes her eight-year-old son Mikuláš to the mountains for a quiet Advent stay but, through a mix-up, ends up at a remote high-altitude lodge run by adventure guide Richard, his spirited daughter Zuzka, and his ...

Batastories (2019)

Peter Kerekes' documentary focuses on the Bata shoe empire and the quest to find the next generation of shoe makers ...

Women on the Run (2019)

Vera has lived a wonderful life with Jindrich, and she is fully determined to fulfill his last wish - running a marathon. The emancipated and spirited mother of three daughters doesn't think that doing so will be a problem. She and her daughters will split ...

Kouzelník Žito (2018)

A tale of a boy whose desire to correct human vices was stronger than the power of hell itself. Apolena, a herbalist, finds an abandoned newborn baby in a rye field. She names him Rye and raises him into a brave young man. Rye is recruited into the king's ...

Rolling Stones – Hearts for Prague (2018)

Tátova volha (2018)

Unexpectedly widowed costume designer Eva discovers a child's drawing that sends her and her daughter on a road trip to uncover a family secret. ...

Alenka v zemi zázraků (2018)

A little girl who, like Alice in Wonderland, wanders through the landscape of her childhood as if through an enchanted labyrinth, observing and recording the world. ...

Manžel na hodinu (2016)

Milan's relationship with Dr. Eliška is developing promisingly, and when Milan finally decides to propose to her, it seems that nothing stands in the way of the wedding. Well, apart from one small "trifle" - Milan is still married to Slovakian woman Janka ...

Angel 2 (2016)

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 rare apple from the tree of the knowledge to roll on earth. And that God is really angry. Petronel with Uri ...

Little Feather (2016)

Martina is 18, loves dancing and goes by a nick name Shakira. Also, today she is leaving an orphanage... ...

To Make a Comedy Is No Fun (2016)

Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica, István Szabó and others. ...

Green Horse Rustlers (2016)

An unemployed farmer convinces a geologist friend to quit his university job to seek fortune illegally mining moldavite. ...

Děda (2016)

The grandchildren from Prague come to visit their colorful Wallachian grandfather for the holidays. Their busy parents send them with the good intention of changing their virtual world of the internet, cell phones, and tablets. In the Wallachian village, e ...

Crazy Kingdom (2016)

By some quirk of fate, the two small-time thieves and the spoiled princess find themselves in the Black Forest full of magic beings who believe that everyone has a chance to mend his ways. However, sometimes even the best intentions need to take a pretty l ...

Svatojánský věneček (2015)

Princess Verunka's marriage is supposed to save the kingdom, which has been impoverished by the crazy ideas of its ruler. And she has several suitors! The poet Alexander Alexandrovich, who would make even Pushkin pale with envy, the two-headed baron, milit ...

Home Care (2015)

Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her whimsical patients in Czech wine country and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, but one day things change and Vlasta is forced to reach outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor intertwine as ...

Husband to Rent (2014)

Four swimmers - water polo players find themselves at the bottom of their existence after losing a match. So desperate that they even find themselves living at the bottom of their emptied pool. To save their "dignity" they start a questionable business "Hu ...

Angels of Everyday (2014)

Based on a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh, Angels of everyday focuses on a few intimate family members: a recently widowed young doctor Ester; a school canteen cook and her son; a driving instructor, his wife, and their closest relatives. ...

Three Brothers (2014)

Three brothers leave their home to see the world. During their journey, young men as by miracle enter into famous fairy tales (Little Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Twelve Months) and face traps, unexpected moments and even love in a story full of humor and ...

The Inheritance or You Shouldn't Say That (2014)

The aging Bohus buries his wife Vlastička and after seven years of abstinence starts drinking again. ...

Revival (2013)

Smoke was the Czech Rolling Stones. However, under unclear circumstances, they broke up in 1972, and each of the four former musicians came to terms with their fate as retired rockers in their own way. Each of them now has their own life and their own stor ...

The Blacksmith from Woodham (2013)

The story takes place in the small town of Podlesie, which was once invaded by the Turks. The good fairies were - in good faith - asked for help, but it consisted in hurting others. This has not brought happiness to the town, and it needs to be put right.. ...

To the Woods (2012)

Honza Marak has long since abandoned a career in IT and has bought a cottage on the outskirts of a small village, where he's settled in with his wife Marketa, daughter Anyna and son Sayen. He works in the woods as a forest labourer repairing roads and encl ...

Signál (2012)

Two young technicians, Filos and Kája, come to a small village that is a bit cut off from the rest of the world in order to find the best place to install a new station for the reception of a cell phone signal. Their arrival understandably arouses a feeli ...

Men in Hope (2011)

Charming bon vivant Rudolf is convinced that infidelity is the basis for a happy marriage, since, after all, a woman does not want to be bored with her partner. ...

The Magical Duvet (2011)

The great musical comedy by F. A. Brabec V perine is the first Czech film made entirely in 3D. This stimulating comedy, in true and thorough 3D, presents a whole new computer-made world concealed in a quilt, where a large part of the film is taking place. ...

Ostrov svaté Heleny (2011)

The story of František, a selfish yet loving man who made his living as a musician on ocean cruise ships. He gradually became estranged from his family and ended up alone. On the advice of friends, he sets out to find his daughter in the village of Svatá ...

Ulovit miliardáře (2009)

A report is fabricated accusing a successful businessman, Patrik Grossmann, of racism. When the media launches a full-blown campaign against him, the atmosphere gets so thick that anyone can kick him while he's down just to prove their morality. ...

Operation Dunaj (2009)

Operation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968. The fleet of Polish tanks which arrive to liberate their neighbor, ostensibly threatened by a counter-revolution, includes the old tank nicknamed L ...

Anatomie gagu (2008)

Small Celebrations (2008)

Teenager Agata lives with her mother Magda, who was fired from her job. Magda decides to go into business, opens a hairdressing salon. However, thanks to a swindler and an unfortunate game of fate, she loses all the money she has invested and the roof over ...

Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008)

Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim ...

I'm All Good (2008)

This Hrebejk's comedy is set in Prague, four years after the democratic "Velvet revolution" of 1989. This was an era of sudden freedom, transition and confusion. Most people got carried away, quickly abandoning the old values and uncritically accepting the ...

Svatba na bitevním poli (2008)

In the small Moravian town of Zvěstov, all the men live for historical battles. They represent the French army, led by their mayor Touchyn (Bolek Polívka), who has had a monopoly on the role of Napoleon for years. This time, they are preparing for a big ...

Hodina klavíru (2007)

The story of František Stára, a recovering alcoholic, concertmaster, and composer. After returning from alcohol rehabilitation, he quickly realizes that his euphoric determination to start over is a tragic illusion. His wife has moved out of their apartm ...

ROMing (2007)

Jura, a reluctant university student already smitten with someone else, is swept off by his father's eccentric friend Stano to fulfill an age-old promise and meet the mysterious bride from a Slovak village. What follows is a rollicking road trip of comic m ...

Pleasant Moments (2006)

Hana is a psychologist and a thoroughly independent woman. Her unemployed husband, jealous of his wife, finds a younger girlfriend, but their teenage son Honzik is frustrated; everyone ignores him. Hana's patient Eva, an attractive middle-aged woman, is ha ...

Something Like Happiness (2005)

Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or can they? ...

Through This Night (2005)

The film portrays the final days of the most famous Czech authoress, Božena Němcová, who in the mid-19th century dared to live a life free of social constraints. ...

The Gnome (2005)

A tragicomedy full of slapstick and vignettes, and even an unexpected shootout. A family of villagers moves up in the world - to the county seat. Dad works as a butcher at a meatpacking plant, mom is a checker at a supermarket. The daughter is at odds with ...

Bolero (2004)

Based on real event, Bolero is an excellent story of progressive recovery of a crime. The story surprises all the time, shows new connections, new possibilities, exposes new ideas and facts. It's possible to understand the film on more levels. It describes ...

Pupendo (2003)

Artist Bedřich Mára (Bolek Polivka) is unable to find much secure work due to his public antagonism toward the ruling Communist Party. He has a wife and two children. Life begins to change when art historian Alois Fábera (Jiři Pecha) begins working on ...

Útek do Budína (2002)

The love story of students Jana and Tomáš begins in Prague just after the establishment of the First Republic. Their impulsive "escape to Buda" marks not only the liberation of the dissatisfied Jana from her monotonous life with her mentally unstable mot ...

Z města cesta (2002)

A poetic documentary about different sides of nature and city life. ...

Expulsion from Paradise (2001)

Philosophical movie, staged at the least philosophical environment imaginable: A closed scenery of a nudist spot, where some hired Czech stuff is making a plain erotic movie for a rich Russian producer. Nothing in this movie is what it seems to be at the f ...

Wild Flowers (2000)

Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales. ...

Out of the City (2000)

A computer programmer and his son are going out of the city for vacation. ...

Divided We Fall (2000)

In 1943, a childless couple, the Čížeks, decide to hide a Jewish refugee, David Wiener, the son of Čížek's former employer, in the secret pantry of their apartment. Čížek is aware of the danger into which he has brought his household and his neigh ...

Eliška Likes It Hot (1999)

A sensual summer comedy for discerning audiences. In a small town with a nostalgic swimming pool, a variety bar, and a pink pastry shop, a couple in love, an aging playboy, a lifeguard, and a variety artist named Marčélo and his much younger wife Eliška ...

Cosy Dens (1999)

Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. The teenage kids think that their fathers are totally stupid, and the fathers are sure that their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they ...

Požírač medvědů (1997)

A charming comedy based on the life of polar explorer, writer, and storyteller J. E. Welzl. ...

Akáty bílé (1997)

Two itinerant performers in a timeless, unnamed land rescue an abandoned infant. As they care for the child, they clash with the realm's all-powerful, primitive militia. This tragicomedy follows their bond, the absurdity of authority, and the longing for b ...

Forgotten Light (1996)

Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the villagers, his encounters are marked by his good humor. In his los ...

Král Ubu (1996)

A cruel picture of the ways in which human beings acquire power and then cling to it. The story of Father Ubu, an idiot who climbs over the bodies of the dead to his royal post, is presented with a touch of the grotesque where naive comic elements meet bla ...

Suzanne (1996)

A film about the lives of drug addicts. A story of love and falling into the abyss that has no bottom. At the same time, the story of a father who rescues his daughter from the arms of "sweet death". ...

...ani smrt nebere! (1996)

The story of two urban intellectuals who experience a series of grotesque and comical situations caused by the clash of two worlds: rural and urban. ...

Brother of Sleep (1995)

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ a ...

Pohádka o Faustovi (1995)

The legend of Doctor Faust tells of man's desire for knowledge and fulfillment in life. ...

Accumulator 1 (1994)

In this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the street) it has a double that's right in the TV set. This double needs energy from the true character to survive. Each time, the real human watches TV, his Doub ...

The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992)

Bohus is indolent and spends his days drinking brandy. One day he finds he has inherited a brickworks, several shops and a five-star hotel. Bohus sets out to tour his new empire, insulting everyone on the way. ...

The Elementary School (1991)

The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict – but also very ...

Flames of Royal Love (1991)

In 1992, Prague is the capital of a small kingdom. The prince is supposed to choose his bride to be at a royal ball. But to everybody's surprise, he chooses an ugly cleaning-woman. She is shy and silent, but after the marriage she turns into a wild and rum ...

Pražákům, těm je hej (1991)

The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr (Prague's selection) has just received the news thier 5-year ban has expired and they are alowed to perform once again. This half fant ...

About a Hungry Babe (1991)

A grotesque and self-ironic reflection on the last things, and how you have to work for yourself. ...

Podivné odpoledne dr. Zvonka Burkeho (1991)

The Gentle Barbarian (1990)

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s. ...

Time of the Servants (1989)

Dana is young medical student with no self esteem, she can't deal with life, people and even not with herself. After her boyfriend leaves her, she changes to selfish woman, manipulating people and making them to serve her. She plays with her husband, neigh ...

Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989)

Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down. ...

Štek (1989)

Young provincial actor Perda, long confined to minor roles, is cast unexpectedly as the lead in a vacuous new play by an ambitious writer. Despite a lackluster script and an audience that largely abandons the performance at intermission, the production pro ...

The Jester and the Queen (1988)

The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation - a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his French wife, or a modern Czech villager helps a Bavarian hunter and his French wife find wild boar in Bohemia - the story switches back and forth ...

Freckled Max and the Spooks (1987)

A parody of Frankensteinian stories. It is a story of a little boy, an orphan who arrives at the Castle of Count Frankenstein - a world inhabited by mysterious and sometimes a bit ridiculous scary creatures. Although each one of them is different, they all ...

Už komedianti jedou... (1987)

Šašek a královna (1985)

Poslední leč (1982)

Just like every year, Dr. Burke comes to visit the old man who is being cared for by his nurse Dobruše. In a small, not very cosy room, the two friends have incredible adventures in which, thanks to their imagination, the most ordinary things change their ...

Horí (1982)

Calamity (1982)

Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver. ...

Zlatá ručka (1982)

Blues pro EFB (1980)

An image and music collage - a cinema concert - guided by a young sound engineer David, for whom the exhibition on E. F. Burian is an incentive to take more interest in this avant-garde artist. The film interweaves two strands - documentary and factual, dr ...

Commedia dell'arte (1980)

Ballad for a Bandit (1979)

The film version of the theatre musical production by the "Divadlo na provazku" in Brno tells the tale of legendary bandit Nikola Šuhaj from Koločava. ...

Am a Ea (1977)

Traja chrobáci (1976)

Three mimes represent beetles in the real world of human habitation, which is proportionally huge for their beetle-like dimensions. They experience an extraordinary adventure of discovering ordinary things in human habitation. ...

Potulné pohádkové divadlo (1974)

Kouzelný televizor (1974)

Paroháči (1973)

Kazisvěti (1973)

Kouzelný hrášek (1973)

Druhá pohádka o lokomotivě (1973)

Kouzelné hodinky (1973)

Uprostřed babího léta ve stepi zahoukal vlak (1972)

Manželská čtyřhra (1972)

Lancelot a Alexandrína (1971)

Poloviční kouzelníci (1971)

Čtyři sváteční dny (1971)

Cesta, která vede nikam (1969)

Kočky neberem (1967)

A smiling holiday story about an old car named Cleopatra and its four-member, all-male crew... ...

Fast X (2023)

Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of t ...

The Inheritance or You Shouldn't Say That (2014)

The aging Bohus buries his wife Vlastička and after seven years of abstinence starts drinking again. ...

Expulsion from Paradise (2001)

Philosophical movie, staged at the least philosophical environment imaginable: A closed scenery of a nudist spot, where some hired Czech stuff is making a plain erotic movie for a rich Russian producer. Nothing in this movie is what it seems to be at the f ...

The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992)

Bohus is indolent and spends his days drinking brandy. One day he finds he has inherited a brickworks, several shops and a five-star hotel. Bohus sets out to tour his new empire, insulting everyone on the way. ...

Štek (1989)

Young provincial actor Perda, long confined to minor roles, is cast unexpectedly as the lead in a vacuous new play by an ambitious writer. Despite a lackluster script and an audience that largely abandons the performance at intermission, the production pro ...

The Jester and the Queen (1988)

The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation - a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his French wife, or a modern Czech villager helps a Bavarian hunter and his French wife find wild boar in Bohemia - the story switches back and forth ...

Už komedianti jedou... (1987)

Šašek a královna (1985)

Poslední leč (1982)

Just like every year, Dr. Burke comes to visit the old man who is being cared for by his nurse Dobruše. In a small, not very cosy room, the two friends have incredible adventures in which, thanks to their imagination, the most ordinary things change their ...

Am a Ea (1977)