Jan Kačer

Kouzelný kopec (2023)

Documentary about Barrandov studios. ...

Power (2023)

A boy is accidentally killed at an informal hunt somewhere on the border of two European countries. One of the people involved is Minister Berger, the hot candidate for the influential post of High Commissioner for Water Management, who will be tasked with ...

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 ...

Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance (2021)

The brilliant Czech writer Milan Kundera has not given an interview in thirty years; nor does he appear in public. How did he become a legendary author? What is so unique about his books? ...

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 ...

Pan herec Miroslav Donutil (2021)

Sama v čase normálnosti (2021)

Every day, head nurse Marta's life is an exhausting merry-go-round of the most tedious duties. She recently became a widow and is alone with her teenage son. She doesn't complain about anything, convincing herself as a true communist that she lives in para ...

Mi(s)sing Dog (2019)

It's one bad day for Rudolf, a lonely 77-year old retired linguist, when he finds himself tailed by a dog he can't get rid of on his way to the post office. This encounter eventually leads to a complete and unexpected change in his life. ...

Chalet for sale (2018)

When nostalgia makes her rethink the sale of her family cottage, a woman cajoles her husband and loved ones into one last getaway. ...

Hlas pro římského krále (2016)

Czech Television's epic historical film draws on the breathtaking dramatic life of the great of Czech history, King Charles IV. ...

Zločin v Polné (2016)

An exciting drama from a detective history. In 1899 a dead girl - seamstress Anežka Hrůzová - was found between the village of Věžnička and the town of Polná. She was 19 and she had a cutting wound on the throat. There was no sexual violence involve ...

Věčná Slavia (2016)

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. ...

Hoteliér (2013)

The film is not merely a record of rehearsals, but above all an intimate look at the relationships between its individual protagonists. Nor is it a classic documentary, because the line between acting, creation, and recording reality is too thin. The film ...

Cizinec a krásná paní (2012)

The beautiful lady, as the locals call the widow and owner of the apartment building, the aging Mrs. Růžena, lives in a neighborhood nicknamed Little Asia. Her last tenant has just moved out, and she lives alone with her parrot. At this moment, an older ...

Tajemství Heleny Růžičkové (2012)

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 ...

Sentiment (2003)

Sentiment is Tomáš Hejtmánek's intimate documentary portrait of the great Czech director František Vláčil. The film was inspired by encounters with the filmmaker and told through taped interviews, reconstructions of meetings with Vláčil, visits to ...

King Lear (2003)

A recording of the production from the courtyard of the Supreme Purkrab of Prague Castle starring Jan Tříská. Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear is a timeless tale of love, hate, betrayal, greed and lust for power. At the end of his life, the King decides ...

Zaniklý svět Karla Pecky (2000)

Vincenz Priessnitz (1999)

Modré z neba (1997)

Poetic movie about 3 generations of women. ...

Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia (1997)

The film adaptation of the novel of the same by Michal Viewegh. The hero of the novel is a primary school teacher with a successful writing career ahead of him who accepts well-paid employment from an entrepreneur who entrusts him with the task of making h ...

Hranice stínu (1996)

Thirty-year-old Prokop Randa returns to his native village, where he seeks peace and reconciliation with his life's failures. Jan Čep's novel, first published in 1935, inspired a group of students at Palacký University in Olomouc to attempt to create an ...

Malostranské humoresky (1996)

The short story film based on the book of the same name by Karel Pecka depicts the atmosphere of the Lesser Town in the 1980s. ...

O princezně, měsíci a hvězdě (1996)

Ohnivé jaro (1995)

The story of Sebastien, a seriously ill 25-year-old, and his mother, whose lives were also affected by the events of 1968 in Czechoslovakia. ...

Unexpected Encounters (1994)

An expedition arrives on planet Arkha, which appears desolate and uninhabited and yet suitable for a planned mass exodus from polluted Earth. One day seemingly from nowhere and quite unexpectedly a young boy wanders into their ship and then runs off. ...

Mistr Theodorik (1994)

Mistr Kampanus (1993)

A TV adaptation of the famous novel in which writer Zikmund Winter depicts the life story of Prague university professor and humanist poet Jan Campanus Vodňanský and his efforts to save the ancient university after the Battle of White Mountain. Campanus ...

Svědek umírajícího času (1991)

At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), dedicated to the Rudolphine-era scientist Jan Jesenius. He ended up on the scaffold along with other gentlemen after losing the anti-Habsburg uprising. Whe ...

The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night (1990)

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the station master. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes over ...

Člověk proti zkáze (1990)

Biography of Karel Čapek. ...

Antonín Dvořák (1990)

A documentary about the composer who made Czech music famous all over the world. ...

Nothing Really Happened (1989)

An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughter's cheek. ...

Nedosněné sny (1989)

Wolf's Hole (1987)

Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselves preyed upon and set against one another by their three mysterious instructors. ...

My Daughter's Operation (1987)

A car accident occurs and Dusan's teenage daughter Milena gets very seriously injured. To add insult to injury, Dusan is unable to donate a kidney when he finds out he is not Milena's biological father. Dusan is left to cope with his wife's infidelity, as ...

Zločin v obrazárně (1985)

Prague – The Restless Heart of Europe (1985)

This distinctive documentary portrait of Prague extolls the beauty, significance and spirit of the ancient city adopting modern way of life. The form and content of the film share a common underlining principle. The author doesn't simply list out the seque ...

Albert (1985)

Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty. Now he is playing time from time to rich people. Then Albert meets count Delesov, who tries to change Albert's life. Two different characters, two ways of ...

Schůzka se stíny (1983)

Two people scarred by a wartime past meet again years later during an archaeological dig. But the silent, inaccessible man in particular is reluctant to admit to anyone his harrowing experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, where he was the subject of hor ...

Kočka (1983)

Vinobraní (1982)

In a South Moravian wine-growing village in the early 1970s lives an old man who cannot accept the attitude of the younger generation towards nature and agriculture. Director Hynek Bočan made a number of films based on Jan Kostrhun's drafts, mostly set in ...

Posedlost (1982)

Drž se rovně, Kačenko (1981)

Měsíční tónina (1981)

Ako listy jedného stromu (1980)

Kotva u přívozu (1980)

A few weeks in the life of the family of an attractive woman, the TV presenter Magda, her second husband and her teenage son. Magda is a lively, energetic woman, not for nothing is she called "the boss" at home. Besides her profession, she handles other pr ...

Sonáta v Mariánských Lázních (1979)

Město mé naděje (1979)

Jan Kačer became known primarily as an actor, but he also took up film directing several times - not very successfully. Based on someone else's script, he made a committed, building story: it tells the story of an experienced engineer who is commissioned ...

Súkromná vojna (1978)

Slovak psychological drama from the end of World War II. The plot of the film takes place in a short period of time just before the outbreak of the uprising. It is the story of a man who wages his "private" war against the man who is responsible for the se ...

Cesta ženy (1975)

A chronicle of dramatic events capturing the fates of people living in a Slovak village just after World War II. Thirty years later, the main character Anna recalls a decision that fundamentally changed her life. During the period of incipient collectiviza ...

Otcové a děti (1972)

Lekce (1972)

During World War II, a German university professor creates a spy ring that supplies the Allies with information about Nazi plans... ...

Mata Hari (1971)

The Great Unknown (1970)

Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short stories. ...

Romanetto (1970)

An aristocratic woman suffers a severe nervous breakdown and is subsequently institutionalized following a disastrous infidelity. She descends into madness while grappling with intense psychological torment and the fallout of her social and personal life. ...

Přízrak (1970)

Flirt se slečnou Stříbrnou (1969)

At the centre of the story is Miss Lenka Stříbrná. An attractive, but a little strange young woman. The gym teacher Vasek is shy and very clumsy with women. So he asks his friend, the editor Karel, for help. The experienced seducer willingly seizes the ...

Stopa vede do Liptákova (1969)

Revenge (1969)

A dialogue between judge and convict, winner and loser, which offers the viewer a reflection on the relativity of guilt, heroism and crime in the world of "isms". ...

Respice finem (1968)

"A refined film essay about the loneliness, wisdom and humility of old women. The film, most valued by Jan Špáta, was awarded the Grand Prize at the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, the Trilobit Award and Special Mention at the IFF in Kar ...

The Valley of the Bees (1968)

Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin. After years of hardship, Ondrej escapes from the Order when he is wrongly punished, and sets out for his former home. Arriving to discov ...

O malém světě (1968)

The End of Agent W4C (1967)

The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice. He will hav ...

The Soft Course (1967)

Bernhard works as a warehouse clerk in Munich. After being sentenced to probation for a physical altercation with a right-wing extremist, he could no longer continue his engineering studies. Bernhard meets Johanna. She comes from a well-to-do family; her f ...

Hotel for Strangers (1967)

A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat characters like the hefty homosexual cook, shadowy clerks, snooty waiters, and valets prone to violence. He ...

The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967)

Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via discussions both with the patient and with people who know him, tries to find out what made the young and seemingly ...

The Pipes (1966)

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 of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped ...

Reflection (1966)

A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and death, set amidst complex hospital apparatus and the sadness, hope, or resignation of the patients. Existentialist rather than optimist, the approach is one of ...

Searching (1966)

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly, or watched them cowardly and in silence. They are trying to repress their feelings of guilt and justify th ...

Nobody Will Laugh (1966)

A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets out of hand. ...

Courage for Every Day (1965)

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals. ...

Psalm (1965)

A synagogue service in Bohemia, where the Torah scrolls are ceremoniously taken out and read, intercut with images of a Jewish cemetery. ...

Passing Through a Thick Forest (1964)

The story of two communist friends, one of whom leaves as secretary to the district committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the other remains in the village as a party agitator. ...

Death Is Called Engelchen (1963)

Pavel is a Czech partisan fighter in the waning days of the war. Just as peace is declared, Pavel is shot in the spine and sent to the hospital emergency ward. As he fades in and out of consciousness, he recalls the events that led to his participation in ...

Probuzení (1960)

Delinquent youths wander aimlessly and commit mischief. Few, however, manage to break free from the influence of such a gang. One of the lucky ones is a girl who grew up in an orphanage - already reformed and reformed, she remembers her dark past. ...

Hoteliér (2013)

The film is not merely a record of rehearsals, but above all an intimate look at the relationships between its individual protagonists. Nor is it a classic documentary, because the line between acting, creation, and recording reality is too thin. The film ...

Sbohem, Sokrate (1991)

Otevři dveře (1981)

Případ IV. A (1981)

Čas plyne i v dešti (1980)

Město mé naděje (1979)

Jan Kačer became known primarily as an actor, but he also took up film directing several times - not very successfully. Based on someone else's script, he made a committed, building story: it tells the story of an experienced engineer who is commissioned ...

Zlatovláska (1978)

Palma královská (1978)

Úklady a láska (1971)

Jsem nebe (1971)

The story of a first love disappointment. Sensitive Lenka finds it very difficult to overcome the unsuccessful course of her meeting with a boy for whom she felt more than sympathy... ...

Revizor (1971)

A recording of a theatre production directed by Jan Kačer from 1967. ...

Tři růže z papíru (1964)

Milenci z kiosku (1963)

Pušky paní Carrarové (1963)

Pusťte mě k tomu (1962)

Můj přítel Kolja (1961)

Všichni moji synové (1961)

Štafle (1960)