Jan Vlasák

Jiří Pavlica a jeho světy (2023)

Restore Point (2023)

It's 2041 and the gaps in social and economic inequality have left the world on the brink. A breakthrough in science has given humanity the ability to bring victims of a violent crime back to life by backing up their brain every 2 days. This allows an ambi ...

The Czechs Are Excellent Mushroom Pickers (2020)

How incomprehensible would a higher intelligence find the plodding human species and the way it treats the Earth? And do Czechs differ in the way they care for nature? ...

Daria (2020)

When Daria disappears after their first date, Marek finds her in a psychiatric hospital. Everything might be part of a disturbing game played by powerful pharmaceutical companies, though the truth may be more frightening than either of them realize. ...

Summer with the gentleman (2019)

Anna spends every summer with her husband in a neighborhood a few dozen kilometers outside Prague. They've been together for ages, so their marriage, as is so often the case, has become routine and stereotyped. For a long time, the man has divided his time ...

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 ...

Gangster Ka: African (2015)

After narrowly escaping arrest in Prague, Czech mobster Radim "Kácko" Kraviec flees first to Seychelles and then to South Africa where he continues with his criminal endeavours. However, his illicit activities cannot go unnoticed forever. ...

Gangster Ka (2015)

A film based on a book by Jaroslav Kmenta tells the story of a mafioso who got rich by tax fraud of billions of crowns in transactions with petroleum products and who later tried to gain control of the state-owned petroleum concern. The main character is t ...

Co v detektivce nebylo (2013)

Arthur Watkins' English conversational comedy has been successfully adapted to the Czech environment and the present day by screenwriter and director Jaroslav Brabec. Ondřej Bednář is a man whose life follows a strict routine. Convention and rationality ...

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 ...

Unknown Hour (2009)

Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as well. He feels no-one takes him seriously and he loathes the doct ...

Normal (2009)

Dreaded serial killer Peter Kurten voluntarily turns himself over to the authorities. A young lawyer, eager to prove Kurten's mental derangement, agrees to defend a man who terrorized Germany between 1929 and 1931. In studying the case and meeting with the ...

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 ...

The Red Baron (2008)

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Befor ...

V hlavní roli (2008)

A crime case will affect the life of a famous actor. ...

Empties (2007)

Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… dramatically. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society. ...

Hostel Dissected (2006)

The making of Eli Roth's "Hostel. ...

Hostel (2006)

Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them. ...

Love Your Enemies (2005)

The story of a Swiss woman and a Czech man, who changed hundreds of lives. ...

Lovers & Murderers (2004)

Lovers & Murderers is about the ongoing war between those who have and those who want to have what the others have. The have-nots see themselves as poor victims trying to get for themselves what is justly theirs. But when the have-nots become haves, th ...

P.F. 77 (2003)

The story of a teacher, a famous actress, and her students set against the backdrop of the harsh normalization period, a time when, after the Soviet occupation, most people tried to survive in the gray zone, and only a handful of brave souls were willing t ...

Hodina tance a lásky (2003)

Teenager Kristina Kleinburger, daughter of the commander of a concentration camp, arrives from bombed-out Berlin to visit her parents, whose life represents a world of harmony and peace for her. Her parents try to reinforce her illusions with ballet lesson ...

The Pool (2001)

International students at an elite Prague school are stalked and murdered by a masked killer while holding a party in an abandoned water park. ...

Deník šílené manželky (2001)

Unusual comedy about women and their marriage troubles. ...

Paní Mlha (2000)

On Klobouk Hill, which rises above the marshy forests, stands a bell tower, and there reigns Lady Fog, who rules the entire region unseen. No matter what the reformed bandit Jerka Berka claims, she is the true mistress here. And then there is the righteous ...

Ze života pubescentky (2000)

The story of fifteen-year-old Renata, who lives in a small apartment with her divorced parents, takes place during the socialist era of the 1980s. Not only does she have her own problems appropriate for her age, but she is also disgusted by her parents' co ...

Agáta (1999)

Three "miniatures" touching on romantic relationships between men and women from different perspectives. Matěj, a young vegetable garden guard and lover of idleness and village women, spends the night in the grass with Agáta, the wife of a switchman, eve ...

Prague Duet (1998)

Dr. Lauren is staying in Prague for a conference and falls in love with Czech writer Jiri Kolmar. ...

Proces s vrahy Martynové (1998)

Loosely inspired by a real criminal court case. It took place in Prague and the Tatra Mountains between 1926 and 1928 and was later described as one of the biggest, if not the biggest, cases the pre-Munich Republic had ever seen. Nevertheless, the police a ...

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 ...

Fatherland (1994)

Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble ...

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 ...

Noc rozhodnutí (1993)

This dramatic story concerns the fateful night of March 14-15, 1939, when President Dr. Emil Hácha was forced to sign a document legalizing the establishment of the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Screenwriter J. S. Kupka conceived this his ...

Black Barons (1992)

Life of Czechoslovak soldiers in a military unit for the so called "politically unreliable" - the Technical auxiliary battalions, aka "the black barons". Although it might seem like a political satire and it's mostly funny, it shows the reality and the abs ...

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1992)

A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an iron fist. Katerina is driven by a lust for life and for love. Her husband, though, is impotent; her father-in-law a tyrant. No wonder, then, that she longs ...

Tichá bolest (1991)

A young man has led his whole life with his grandfather. When he was in school, he was the only one who was refused to join the Youth Brigade, since his father was sentenced to death for spying. When it is time for him to do the compulsory military service ...

Silnější než já (1991)

A story inspired by true events, the fate of a multiple juvenile murderer, takes place in an apprentice boarding school. "A series of sexual murders! A real case that could happen again at any time. ...

Pán plamínků (1990)

Oof - They Are Here (1990)

Little boy considers to have discovered traces of the aliens but in fact comes across the activity of small thieves. ...

Cesta na jihozápad (1989)

Based on a Jack London story, this is another attempt at a Western spectacle - after the short story triptych The Canyon of Gold - about a teenage boy who, after his father's death, lives in a gold-mining town. He even witnesses a cruel fight between two c ...

Pan Tau – der Film (1988)

Pan Tau, the friend of all children, now also helps the adults. A movie producer is in trouble and decides to shoot another Pan-Tau movie. But the old Pan-Tau actor Karasek is no longer young enough to walk the almost weightless walk of Pan Tau. Mr. Nova ...

Narozeniny režiséra Z. K. (1988)

A directors autobiography about his debut during the rise of socialism. ...

Víkend za milión (1988)

A remote cottage becomes the scene of a thrilling drama: two criminals who have robbed a car transporting payroll money break into the weekend home. They capture the residents and hold them hostage to protect themselves from the encroaching police siege. H ...

Setníkův štít (1988)

Centurion Kubát, of Czech origin, is staying in the camp of the Habsburg army, which is suppressing the Great French Revolution in France. He is staying in a house where a girl named Francoise lives. The eager Lieutenant Hauser reports to the centurion th ...

Why? (1987)

Why? (Czech: Proč?) is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Smyczek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. The film deals with the hooliganism in Czechoslovakia, particularly with the fans of footba ...

Zjasnělá noc (1987)

Plukovník Starbottle a krásná žalobkyně (1986)

Atomová katedrála (1985)

The construction of a gigantic facility such as the Dukovany nuclear power plant requires only the most capable experts. Such is the engineer Hlaváč, who has been involved in the project from the very beginning as a construction manager. He has to deal w ...

Poslední mejdan (1984)

Putování Jana Amose (1983)

The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the White Mountain disaster. It depicts his encounters with various European personalities of the 17th century - the Queen of Sweden, artists and scientists. It ...

Poslední návrat (1983)

Od vraždy jenom krok ke lži (1983)

The unlucky cultural officer of a spa facility gets involved in compromising situations against his will - and he was originally only after a recommendation to study at an art school. ...

Archimédův bod (1982)

Motiv (1982)

Lenka (1982)

Explosion (1982)

Television film about people who are actively involved in the Slovak national uprising in 1944. A screen adaptation of the novel by Rudo Moritz in 1951. ...

Čokoláda aneb Příběh psaný na vodu (1982)

Trojúhelníková podobnost (1982)

Gazdina roba (1982)

Otevři dveře (1981)

Případ IV. A (1981)

Čtveráci (1980)

Čas plyne i v dešti (1980)

Ať žije královna! (1980)

Svědomí běžce (1979)

Sonáta v Mariánských Lázních (1979)

Hořká slza radosti (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 ...

Great Times (1979)

The drama of the last days of the second world war through the eyes of children in rural areas. ...

Dopis do nemocnice (1978)

Parádní číslo (1977)

Návštěva z vesmíru (1977)

Daň z kilometrů (1977)

Obtíže rovin (1976)

Hledání v prachu (1976)

Druhé křídlo (1976)

Luigiho srdce aneb Poprava tupým mečem (1976)

Soukromá věc (1976)

Návštěva (1975)

Pláňata (1975)

Když chlapi dají slovo (1975)

Nástup možný ihned (1974)

Komu zahrát sólo? (1974)

Veselé paničky windsorské (1973)

Mořská panna (1973)

Ten, který dostává políčky (1971)

Pony pana Pina (1970)