Jiří Němeček

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 ...

Nexus 2.431 (1994)

This international co-production, shot at Barrandov Studios with international cast including Czech actors is an attempt to create a sci-fi fantasy in the tradition of Star Wars and Star Trek. Sometime in the distant future, several earthlings turn up on a ...

Kocourkov (1992)

Uzavřený pavilon (1991)

Dlouhé dopoledne (1991)

Nudity (1990)

Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy (Petr Cepek), tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for a fight in which he injured a functionary of the National Committee and for stealing material but actually by the blame for this crime was pinned on him by ...

Skřivánčí ticho (1990)

The hero of the story is a forty-something intellectual, a sensitive composer of classical music. His exclusive profession, his work, which is actually incomprehensible to those around him, and his deep inner passion set him apart from the conformist milie ...

Dvojčata (1989)

About two princesses, twins, indistinguishable from each other. Except that the "beautiful" one doesn't care about her education and the "smart" one doesn't care about her looks. Only the two sisters' efforts to get the same prince as their husband lead th ...

Mark of Cain (1989)

In 1866, as Austria faces war with Prussia, 19-year-old Ludvík Machl joins a secret Czech resistance group. When he is caught with stolen funds and a weapon, the police commissioner spares him from prison on the condition that he work as an informant. Tra ...

Stačí stisknout (1989)

A small television comedy about a revolutionary invention called a "transmutator" that allows a person to transform into an animal. An impractical scientist, played by Viktor Preiss, actually succeeds. Not only the lovesick secretary Jitka Molavcová is un ...

Nothing Really Happened (1989)

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

Bludiště cest (1988)

Ledvina (1988)

Kdoví, kdy začne svítat...? (1988)

Narozeniny režiséra Z. K. (1988)

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

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 ...

Cena medu (1987)

Little Péťa visits his grandfather in the Krkonoše Mountains, where a swarm of bees settles on a tree. When Péťa disturbs it, the entire swarm attacks him, leaving him in a deep coma. Ordinary treatments fail, so Dr. Vrba insists on a beekeeper's bloo ...

Rudin (1987)

Už od ráje (1987)

Lokis (1987)

After arriving at the mysterious castle, the university professor begins to encounter a sequence of mysterious events, to which he reacts with his rational thinking and tries to explain them logically. ...

The Great Movie Robbery (1987)

The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film industry, to be held at the Prague U Hybernu venue. The protagonists of the piece are comedians Oldrich Kaise ...

An Accident (1986)

In the 1980s, the building themes were transformed into bipolar moral dilemmas involving overly ambitious individuals who wanted to excel at any cost. The hero is the head of a demolition crew that demolishes large buildings, initially a sympathetic young ...

Scalpel, Please (1986)

A psychological drama exploring the notion of the doctor as a moral authority, who within the framework of their everyday work must face questions of life and death. The film is adapted from a novel by Valja Stýblová, in which the author draws upon her p ...

Výjimečná situace (1986)

Nebožtík si nepřál květy (1986)

Až do konce (1985)

Sudetenland, May 1945. A group of retreating German soldiers capture a group of young female workers, totally deployed in a chemical factory. He wants to use them as hostages during his advance to the American demarcation line. Together with them, they tak ...

Pozor, je ozbrojen! (1985)

The Golden Fern (1985)

A handsome young shepherd stumbles across a magical golden fern in the forest. A stunning, enigmatic forest fairy named Lesanka is sent to retrieve it but instead falls hopelessly in love with him. When he's forced to join the army and heads off to war, sh ...

Žofka z Janovic (1984)

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 ...

Tři sestry (1984)

Chekhov's immortal classic about three sisters who live in a provincial town, in 19th century Russia, but dream of going back to Moscow and rewriting their own story. ...

The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley (1984)

In 1947 by the Beskid mountains, the traces of war still linger, destroyed tanks dispersed throughout the farmland creating an eerie backdrop. This film follows a ten-year-old boy and the strange visions he encounters, his world of fantasy exacerbated with ...

Poslední mejdan (1984)

Síť na bludičku (1983)

Děkuju, pane profesore (1983)

Spor architekta Zítka (1982)

Horí (1982)

How to Dupe a Lawyer (1980)

Attorney Horic is a specialist for cases connected with motoring. He approaches to his work unconventionally, he does not hesitate to search for evidence right in the terrain and he is willing to take various risks. ...

Pan Vok odchází (1980)

The former reputed lover and bon vivant Petr Vok from Rožmberk was widowed at the age of sixty-three. The loss of his much younger wife is hard to bear and it seems that nothing in his life will please him anymore. His loyal friends and servants do everyt ...

Hordubal (1980)

After five years of hard work in America Juraj Hordubal (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) returns back home. He is looking forward to his wife Polana (Libuse Geprtová) and his little daughter Hafie. The family and the village welcome him with hesitation. Everybody bel ...

Mejdan na písku (1980)

Chased and Suspected (1979)

Late at night Eva Trojanová returns home to an agitated husband; three days later, her body is found with bruises on her neck. Her spouse, missing after a business trip, becomes the prime suspect and flees to northern Bohemia. When investigators learn he ...

Brother for All the Money (1979)

Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occasionally take care the grandparents and Honza's fifteen-year-old brother Martin. Zuzana continues studying and Honza devotes all weekends as an amateur comp ...

Skandál v Gri-Gri baru (1979)

Two young returnees from the First World War face a difficult future because they cannot find work. One eventually finds a job as an electrician, the other breaks into the Social Democratic press, where he gets the chance to watch up close how the Social D ...

Past na kachnu (1978)

Taxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In the boot of his car the police find the body of a naked man. Koukal is arrested even though he claims he knows nothing about it. The case is assigned to Major ...

The Liberation of Prague (1977)

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discuss ...

Vánoce u Matěnů (1976)

The central characters of this comedy with a criminal plot are the members of the seemingly normal Matěn family - we have dad Karel, a designer with a passion for filmmaking, mum Růženka, who wanted to be an actress, son Jirka and teenage daughter Vera, ...

A Girl Fit to Be Killed (1976)

The waitress Gita from the hotel "Bobí vrch" approaches her lover who has not left his wife yet and gives him an ultimatum: if he does not do all according to her wish, she will announce to the police his machinations with foreign currency. ...

Tam kde hnízdí čápi (1976)

Despite the initial mistrust of others, former glass worker Štěoán Urban becomes the founder and first chairman of the local agricultural cooperative. However, 1968 arrives and with it comes previously unexpected problems. ...

Za volantem nepřítel (1975)

Summer 1968: The crisis is reaching its peak. The director of the Prague taxi service, Mudroch, rejects the drivers' absurd demands for a pay increase. The taxi drivers decide to go on strike and seek support against Murdoch from trade unionists and enemie ...

A Star Is Falling Upwards (1975)

Švand, a room painter from Strakonice, begins a dizzying career as a pop music star, but he soon discovers that fame is not the most important thing in life or what he is looking for and what he longs for in life. ...

Dobrodruh a kavalír (1975)

Zbraně pro Prahu (1975)

In May 1945, Czech revolutionaries used several armoured trains in the fighting - partly captured, partly assembled from whatever the railway brought. One of them was commanded by the shunter Jan Chýň, who managed to bring weapons from the ammunition dep ...

The Motive for Murder (1975)

A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", Karas kills a woman he raped some time ago in order to silence her. However, he accidentally kills another woman. In "Hostages", a drug addict, Chaban, terro ...

Sedmého dne večer (1975)

A former aircraft mechanic wants to start a new life in a small border village after a stint in prison and working in the mines. But things don't work out as he would have liked and bad luck follows him. By an unfortunate coincidence, he even falls under s ...

Vysoká modrá zeď (1974)

Even in the 1970s, films were made in this country that emphasized not only the necessity to defend the impermeability of the Western borders by all means, but mainly rehabilitated the Stalinist era. Told with ridiculous patheticness, the story is set in 1 ...

Noční jízda (1973)

Stanek, a truck driver, is working on a large construction site far from Prague. He hasn't been home for several weeks and is tormented by the idea that his wife is unfaithful. So he sets off to Prague underground and has many adventures along the way. He ...

Zločin na Zlenicích hradě (1972)

The thrilling story begins in 1318, during the reign of John of Luxembourg, when the Czech nobility rebelled against the king. However, the lord of Zlenice, Oldřich of Zlenice, did not join the resistance. He summoned the surrounding nobles to his castle ...

The Key (1971)

Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. ...

Uloupený princ (1971)

Manon Lescaut (1970)

A television adaptation of the poetic play by Vítězslav Nezval. The love story of the knight de Grieux and the sinful saint Manon was staged for the television screen with an extraordinary sense of poetic value in 1970. Poetic salons with many mirrors, d ...

Julián odpadlík (1970)

In 363, somewhere in Mesopotamia, on a campaign against the Persians, the emperor Julian, who had succeeded Constantine after his victory over Gaul, was going through a personal crisis. He sees that the new philosophical trend, Christianity, is as cruel an ...

Bellevue (1969)

Komediantská historie (1969)

The Cremator (1969)

In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism. ...

Forest (1969)

A poetic melodramatic documentary inspired by the death of Jan Palach. The footage from the funeral is accompanied by the words of Maxim Gorky's Old Woman Izergil (On the Flaming Danek's Heart), sung by Kühn's mixed choir, solos by Milada Sýkorová and J ...

Záhořanský hon (1968)

Přísně tajné premiéry (1968)

A crime writer is accused of being too imaginative and his ideas unworkable, but everything changes when an international criminal demands his professional cooperation. The somewhat freaked out and disbelieving hero is also surprised to discover that his o ...

Někoho jsem zastřelil (1967)

Slečny přijdou později (1966)

This forgotten detective story starring Svatopluk Beneš focuses on those ills of the past regime that were allowed to be glossed over - mainly the theft of socialist-owned property and illegal business. Criminals here come across illegal machinations in t ...

Alibi on the Lake (1966)

Miss Nováková reports to Major Tuma (Karel Höger) from the police about the disappearance of her roommate, the model Zuzana. Shortly afterwards, a film director named Konrád (Otomar Krejca) asks Tuma to cooperate on a new cinéma-vérité film describi ...

Fear (1964)

A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on volunteer work some time before. The police detectives, Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) and Lieutenant Va ...

Mykoin PH 510 (1964)

An occupation drama about a group of Czech scientists who, in a remote factory, investigate how to produce the vital penicillin as easily as possible - but for a long time they have been unable to find the only right mould to use as a base. ...

The Cry (1964)

While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends to his job as a television repairman, Slavek fondly remembers how he first met Ivana and the days they spe ...

The King of Kings (1963)

During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the saved man was also the Taman king; and he has decided to name Lojza, a communist, his royal heir. ...

Světáci (1963)

Two families live in a weaver's cottage - the Menecs and the Hroms. The women are pretty from the start. Musicians come, inviting fellow weavers who play in Menec's band to the May Day festival. Wanderers wander through the region, encountering a processio ...

Transport from Paradise (1963)

Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and tribulations the Theresienstadt people faced on a daily basis presented in a series of memorable stories. Their h ...

The Black Dynasty (1962)

The family is connected with Prague's "Kolbenka", the ČKD locomotive factory. Grandfather Antonín, already retired, son Rudolf, a master in the locomotive assembly section and grandson Antonín, a promising football player. The film also tells the story ...

Don't Take Shelter From The Rain (1962)

A youthfully enthusiastic teacher tries to raise the standard of living of the residents of a declining border village... A sympathetic young man with a suspended sentence was Josef Abrham's first big role. Miroslav Horníček often told a funny story from ...

The Coward (1962)

In a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with a ...

Modelování (1962)

Hledá se táta! (1961)

It all starts when two men arrive at the asylum. Mr. Houdek, who goes to see little Honzik Slavata, the illegitimate child of his colleague, whom he wants to adopt, and young Standa Hurych, who takes up a position as a driver. The pretty nurse Magda mistak ...

Every Penny Counts (1961)

After inheriting a villa from his uncle, Emil Tuma meets its strange inhabitants, getting him in trouble. ...

Lucerna (1960)

Letiště nepřijímá (1960)

The conflicts in one pilot's fractured marriage come to a head just as Soviet jets are introduced to international airliners. Naive psychological drama is embraced here with naive admiration for the most advanced aviation technology. ...

A 105 p.c. Alibi (1959)

On an early Sunday evening, people of the small town are reading lottery results that are hung on a board. Young man Karel Antos is annoyed that his lottery-ticket missed the main prize, a car, by only one number. Karel is going to the pub to drink away hi ...

Provisional Liberty (1958)

Jean-Paul is a Frenchman who yearns to live in communist Czechoslovakia. His wish is granted when, mistaken as a masseur of a French boating team, he manages to elude the democratic authorities long enough to scamper over the Czech border. ...

Jahrgang 21 (1958)

At the beginning of the Second World War, Czech music student Honsik comes to Germany from Prague to join a "foreign worker company". After rescuing a boy from the rubble of a bombed-out house, he himself is seriously injured and taken to a hospital in Str ...

To byla noc (1957)

On his first business trip in a new place, driver Rudo has an accident. A drunken truck driver dented the fender of the tatraplane and drove off while Ruda went to a pub for a beer. His situation looks desperate. He arrives in Prague distraught. But his wi ...

Advent (1957)

A ballad story from the life of the inhabitants of the Moravian Beskydy Mountains. The heroine is a young woman, Františka Plesníková. Františka's lover was killed by a falling tree before he could marry her, and the girl faced the bitter fate of a "ro ...

Fučík (1956)

Vina Vladimíra Olmera (1956)

Vladimír Olmer is a student at the Faculty of Medicine. His father, a famous Prague surgeon, is rightly proud of him. One day, Vladimír accidentally meets his former classmate Emil Prokeš. He introduces him to his frivolous friends, who only care about ...

Nevěra (1956)

Based on book by Svatopluk Turek. ...

Nezlob, Kristino (1956)

Rudá záře nad Kladnem (1956)

The year is 1918. Toník returns home from the front. In Kladno, where he arrives, things are seething with discontent. The Social Democrats are in government, but nothing has changed. Socialization has not been implemented, there is hunger and food is sti ...

Strakonický dudák (1955)

The story of the piper Švanda, who went abroad for money and fame, but whose love for his homeland ultimately wins. ...

Návštěva z oblak (1955)

The achievements of socialism must be protected by all means - and it can even be fun. The Svazarmov paratroopers convince the casual cooperative members that the military education of the population must not be underestimated; they simply carry out an amb ...

Shoesmachine (1954)

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

The Magical Hat (1953)

Two poor students, Strnad and Křepelka, console themselves with the fact that Křepelka is to inherit, but it later turns out that the inheritance is only an old hat. The young man seeks help from his relative, the merchant Koliáš, who is the guardian o ...

Action B (1952)

Film shows the struggle of the Czechoslovak armed forces against groups of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) under command Burlak, who tried to pass through the territory of Slovakia. ...

Mikoláš Aleš (1952)

A biographical film about the famous Czech painter Mikoláš Aleš, portrayed as part of the vanguard of the working class and a spokesman for the oppressed, who asserts himself despite the opposing bourgeoisie and reactionaries of all kinds. The film focu ...

V trestném území (1951)

A detective drama set just before the unification of our physical education system. Criminal investigators investigate the murder of a football club official, bribery, and manipulation of match results. ...

Year of the Revolution 1848 (1949)

The Czech revival movement is divided at the end of the first half of the 19th century. While the older generation, such as František Palacký, urges restraint, students lean towards radical positions. A report on the revolutionary events in Paris prompts ...