David Matásek

Můžem i s mužem (2023)

Four friends in their best years get together to celebrate Martina's birthday in a mysterious apartment, where they meet complete strangers. At the party, they reveal their deepest desires: Dita just wants everyone to be happy, Marta is on the hunt for a m ...

Credentialing (2023)

A day before Christmas Eve, a young, inexperienced doctor starts his first night shift on his own. All of his more skilled colleagues have left to spend some time with their families. There are no signs which would indicate that this calm night will change ...

Případ se štěnicí (2023)

Drug dealer Šárlí ended up with a knife in his liver during a drunken brawl as a group of teenagers left a pub late at night. Commissioner Vašátko, who is already enjoying his retirement, is drawn into the investigation by the young man's grandmother, ...

Plameny nad Národním divadlem (2022)

Barcarole (2022)

Zdena, a young nurse, starts her first night shift at an old people's home and immediately faces a difficult task: she has to deal with the body of a deceased client. A gentle portrait of faltering youth and a realistic tale of an encounter with death in a ...

Eyewitness (2021)

"A documentary anatomy of mass murder for one monitor and 34 talking heads." These are the words the filmmakers use in the credits to describe their project, which thematises the execution of more than 260 Carpathian Germans, Hungarians and Slovaks by Czec ...

Only for Tereza (2021)

To win back his girlfriend after an unfortunate misunderstanding, a hopeless romantic decides to recreate grand gestures from famous movies. ...

Audience u královny (2021)

Past (2020)

In 1951, the well-known Czech actress Jiřina Štěpničková receives a letter from Austria from director František Čáp, who has recently emigrated. He invites her to the West and promises her roles in theater and film. She decides to seize the opportu ...

Případ dvou manželek (2019)

Horace was a guest at the home of his old friend Zdeněk, who lived in a secluded house on the shore of a lake with his current wife and his ex-wife. During his visit, Horace witnesses two strange deaths. However, not wanting to get involved in any more ca ...

Případ dvou básníků (2019)

This time, Captain Vašátko of the criminal police and Horác, a painter, bohemian, and amateur detective, will be searching for the murderer of the author of so-called computer poems. Kristián Vích is a mathematician approaching forty. He is very popul ...

Případ dvou sester (2019)

Captain Vašátko of the criminal police and Horác, a painter, bohemian, and amateur detective, are searching for the murderer of Daniela Jásková, an emancipated young woman who excelled at her job and also excelled at changing lovers. When she is found ...

Divadlo v Řeznické (2017)

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 ...

Jak se zbavit nevěsty (2016)

Eva, a driven pastry-shop owner and single mother with a meddlesome but well-meaning mother, is thrown for a loop when her ex-husband Janá, whom she still gets along with perfectly, announces he's fallen in love again and plans to marry the talented piani ...

Jak básníci čekají na zázrak (2016)

Even after twelve years, Štěpán, Kendy, and Karas have remained true to themselves. They are inseparable friends with an inexhaustible sense of humor and a knack for self-irony, albeit with a slight touch of skepticism. ...

Případ pro lyžaře (2016)

Commissioner Vašátko meets painter Horác while on vacation at a mountain cabin. A diverse group of guests has gathered here, ruled over by the aggressive and arrogant director Skorkovský, who humiliates and abuses his son with nonsensical orders. Horá ...

Případ pro malíře (2016)

Captain Vašátko of the criminal police and Horác, a painter, bohemian, and amateur detective, escape the stresses of life by going to the river to fish. Horác befriends a young neighbor who is found dead one day. Everything points to suicide, but Horá ...

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 ...

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 ...

Na druhý pohled (2014)

This contemporary story deals with the relationship between two brothers, which fell apart catastrophically twenty years ago and has still not been repaired. Karel is a successful businessman in a small Czech town, while Emil has prison tattoos, works as a ...

Krásno (2014)

Story follows two best friend on private investigation. They are going to their hometown to prove that Michals mother was killed by his stepmother. ...

Případ pro rybáře (2013)

During a fishing trip, detective Vašátko and his friend, painter Horác, casually track down the murderer of a young hitchhiker. ...

Jménem krále (2009)

In 13th-century Bohemia, King Přemysl Otakar II sends his Bezděz castle steward Oldřich of Chlum north to broker a peace-marriage between the feuding Dubé and Vartemberk houses, only for him and his men to stumble on a murdered merchant's trail. At the ...

El Paso (2009)

The Horváth family is a Romani family with seven children, and the story begins with the tragic death of the father. His wife, Vera, is suddenly in a fight with the authorities, determined to keep her large family together at all costs, but she is hopeles ...

The Poets Never Lose Hope (2004)

After his mother's death, a man tries to sort out his declining relationship, live-in best friend, a career opportunity and a potential new romance. ...

Můj otec a ostatní muži (2003)

Autumn 1988. Renata is studying journalism. She lives with her jealous boyfriend Standa, whom she occasionally cheats on. She edits the school magazine and is perhaps a little more daring than the others, mainly because she doesn't want to be the daughter ...

Žabák (2003)

Antonín Maděra receives an offer to leave prison because a review of sentences from the 1950s has found that he was unjustly convicted. However, there is a catch to this release. The official proceedings could be protracted, so his former judge suggests ...

One Hand Can't Clap (2003)

When Standa is released from jail, he feels a brighter future is about to take hold. Instead, his bad luck grows, thanks to a new acquaintance. ...

Počkej, až zhasnu (2002)

Although Mirek is a young man built like a mountain, he already receives disability benefits. His illness manifests itself in occasional micro-sleeps and episodes resembling epilepsy. The tragicomic hero occasionally loses consciousness for a brief moment, ...

Zlatá princezna (2001)

The princess, who laughs at the lake lord's feelings because of his non-human appearance, is herself transformed into a living golden statue. The curse can only be broken by the love of a man who loves her just as she is. ...

Circle (2001)

Fanny is ten year old girl and a very talented gymnast, but suddenly she's getting seriously injured and ends in a wheelchair. ...

Loners (2000)

Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of matchmaker and occasionally helps to put together some of his friends. He h ...

Return to Paradise Lost (1999)

A professor reunites with an old friend who inspires him to return to Czechoslovakia for the first time since he emigrated years ago. ...

Do nebíčka (1997)

After her mother's death, twelve-year-old Johana lives only with her father, who is clearly unable to raise her on his own. Therefore, she is sent to spend her holidays with her uncle, who lives alone on a rural farm. Johana, who is attracted to everything ...

Konec básníků v Čechách... (1993)

Dr. Štěpán, dismissed for his outspokenness, returns to his hometown determined not to bend his ethical principles to the ruthless new capitalism surrounding him. When he meets a young woman who may become the meaning of his life, he must confront the t ...

Člověk proti zkáze (1990)

Biography of Karel Čapek. ...

Sama uprostřed noci (1990)

Waiting For Patrick (1990)

Helenka, a textile industrial student, invents an ideal man who is the envy of all her friends. The dreamy and delusional Helenka resists her complexes with an imaginary lover, her more realistic friend Zuzka would also prefer the dreamy Patrik, but in the ...

Nedosněné sny (1989)

Sedm hladových (1988)

People can be addicted to things, like high-calorie food. But the struggle against overweight and overeating is often futile, so the unfortunates have no choice but to lose weight under the guidance of experts - and they don't mind that the conditions in t ...

How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives (1988)

While Kendy returns to his hometown as an assistant director to film a thirteen-part series with a television crew, Štěpán Šafránek, equipped with his mother's advice after graduation, takes up his first position - as an intern at the local hospital. ...

Pojď, dáme sbohem žízni (1988)

Young Ivanka wants to study art history, but she is disappointed when she is not accepted to university. She takes a job at a kindergarten with the possibility of completing her teacher training. At the same time, her worries increase. First, her father be ...

Přátelé bermudského trojúhelníku (1987)

The idea of mystery unites the three debut stories - the original Bermuda Triangle with its mysterious phenomena has begun to shift and can be traced anywhere in the world, including Czech and Slovak territory. Here, too, unexplained shifts in space and ti ...

How Poets Are Losing Their Illusions (1985)

A story about a young medical school student and his adventures. ...

The Infinity Castle (1984)

Technical school student Pavel Brychta, arrives at a youth correctional facility located within a chateau in Konečno. He is an atypical, but not hopeless case for the institution. Pavel comes from a well-off family and his antisocial behaviour on the verg ...

Grandmothers Recharge Well! (1984)

A family purchases a home robot designed to look like a grandmum. Their neighbours immediately buy a more expensivve model as the two families always try to up the other one. Both grandmums start to "terorize" their families because they were set up to ens ...

Děkuju, pane profesore (1983)

How the World Is Losing Poets (1982)

Inseparable friends Štěpán and Kendy are students in their final year of high school. When they are in the principal's office after the trouble with the rather scandalous song "On the Carpet", the school principal gives them the idea of ​​rehearsing ...