Jiří Šust

Divoké pivo (1995)

A classic Czech comedy about the privatization of a small South Bohemian brewery. In a series of comical situations, good Czech police officers encounter the mafia, and honest citizens encounter swindlers. This amusing story, which of course includes a rom ...

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1994)

Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free ...

Hrad z písku (1994)

Two women, one girl, and one man trapped by words. ...

Hudba Jiří Šust (1994)

Horror Story (1993)

The distinctive artist, typographer, and writer Josef Váchal is known to the public primarily for his Blood Novel. The surrealistic exuberance of this defense of 19th-century pulp fiction caught the attention of Jaroslav Brabec and his colleagues, who fou ...

Kam panenky... (1993)

Odkaz z Prémontré (1992)

Vracenky (1991)

In the fifites the 10 year old boy Honza lives with his single mother in Prague. The mother is a dedicated communist in the beginning but she changes her mind when a show trial is held. She speaks about her dissatisfaction with the government and is immedi ...

Devět kapitol ze starého dějepisu (1990)

The End of Old Times (1990)

Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic background, he is a man of fortune and is trying to buy the castle. To impress his neighbors and the local ...

Squandered Sunday (1990)

A day in the life of Arnošt, a soldier staying in Josefov. A sense of desperation permeates the environment as well as the mind of the protagonist. It is sunday, and saturday left just a hangover. Days go by, nothing changes. A metaphor for the political ...

TGM the Liberator (1990)

The life of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first elected President of Czechoslovakia following the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918. ...

Larks on a String (1990)

In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict. ...

Piloti (1989)

Further east of the Dark Blue Sky, where the Heavenly Horsemen fought, the story of a Czechoslovakian fighter squadron takes place, to which Second Lieutenant Jandak arrives as a rookie. He then experiences both his first love and a battle high above the c ...

Faithfulness We Pledge (1989)

Story of Sergio Rodriguez, commissar of an International Battalion in the Spanish Civil War ...

Návštěvní hodiny (1986)

Zelená léta (1986)

Four short stories depicting the private life of Czechoslovak soldiers. In the short story "The Pheasant", the hardened corporal Kony takes revenge on the bullying of the new recruit Lubos. On the way to get a tank repaired, however, a manly friendship is ...

My Sweet Little Village (1985)

The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded neighbor. Pávek's family takes care ...

Samorost (1984)

Even the best of resolutions can crumble, especially when late paternal feelings are echoed. Although the protagonist is a lecturer in ethics at the university, explaining the principles of good behaviour to the students, he himself experiences many confus ...

The Snowdrop Festival (1984)

An episodic film about the inhabitants of Kersko, their hardships and their joys, most prominently hunting. A lyrical and humorous adaptation of writings by Bohumil Hrabal. ...

Opus pro smrtihlava (1984)

Dialog s doprovodem děl (1983)

Proč se vraždí starší dámy (1982)

Panelstory or Birth of a Community (1981)

An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into which he is supposed to be moving with his daughter's family. The old granddad from the countryside likes chatt ...

Hodina života (1981)

It is 1883 and Josef Hibes, a social democrat, is organising a strike of textile workers. The main demand is a reduction in working hours... ...

Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci (1981)

A crazy comedy, turning into a grotesque with a number of absurd elements, tells the tangled story of the over-the-top siblings Zuzana and Petr, recessionists who like to prepare harsh surprises for those around them, especially Zuzana's timid suitor Karl� ...

Cutting It Short (1981)

Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come t ...

Smrt a Blažená paní (1980)

Jak se naučit švédsky (1979)

The protagonist is supposed to go to a graduation reunion and, because she is ashamed to reveal that she is still lonely and unmarried, she makes up a story that her husband was a Swede who came to the Czech Republic for assembly and that he died suddenly. ...

Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (1979)

Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie to his care. In Prague they all take up their lodgings at the house At Blue Fish in which they intend to ar ...

Pumpaři od Zlaté podkovy (1979)

A petrol pump is run by a permanent team: the manager Vávra, a former civil engineer ing. Stejskal, a smug crook named Karafa, and an old man, Dvořák, who is about to retire. They have a well-developed system that allows them to divert part of the profi ...

Silvestr svobodného pána (1979)

How will the irresistible darling of women, the seducer and the eternal philanderer cope when several of his "loves" unexpectedly appear in his apartment on New Year's Eve? ...

Time is inexorable (1978)

Documentary about old age. ...

Jak se zranit ve službě (1978)

Zlaté rybky (1978)

Police discover Eva Nejtková dead in her apartment and her husband Zdeněk unconscious from a shotgun wound. Captain Hora leads the investigation, noting that the killer struck Eva fatally and shattered her large aquarium, yet carefully transferred the go ...

Parádní číslo (1977)

Ženitba (1977)

A television adaptation of the classic comedy by Ukrainian playwright N. V. Gogol. ...

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, ...

Boty plné vody (1976)

Three short stories ("Zelenáči 1945", "Silvestr 1948" and "Zimní vítr 1951") about members of the SNB units guarding the Šumava border in the post-war years. Ivo Toman had artistic supervision over the debutants. The theme of the third short story was ...

Secluded, Near Woods (1976)

The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed. ...

Recepty doktora Kudrny (1976)

Vilém Rozkoč (1976)

Mys Dobré naděje (1976)

World War II is slowly coming to an end. On the German side of the border, panic slowly breaks out and the local commander orders the local port to be mined. The Czech boatmen take advantage of the sudden confusion and decide to carry out a crazy plan: ste ...

Rodič (1976)

Pražský chodec (1976)

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 ...

Konfrontace (1975)

Kukačky (1974)

Nová metoda malíře Smithe (1974)

Gunshots in Mariánské Lázně (1974)

In May 1945, a woman in Marienbad reports a murder - committed in 1933 against the German emigrant Professor Lessing. She also names the murderer. Against the wishes of his superior, who does not feel responsible for this case - it was a fascist femicide - ...

Maturita za školou (1973)

The short story film follows the fate of three young men who will soon have to decide what to do with their lives. The first "Poet", an aspiring author, publishes his first poem, while the sporting career of the second "Rep", a national table tennis player ...

Vražda před večeří (1972)

Cesty mužů (1972)

Experienced StB investigators in the 1950s dismantle a terrorist action against the collectivisation of a village in the foothill village of Mezilesí. The screenwriter returned to the schemes that were common in our countries in the 1950s. ...

Medvěd pro hosta (1972)

Klíč pod rohožkou (1972)

Slůně (1972)

Svědectví mrtvých očí (1971)

When former criminal Gaudl discovers the strange behaviour of his son-in-law Professor Horacek, he becomes worried about his daughter Hedwig and starts to gather evidence. When his suspicions seem justified, he visits his former colleague and friend, Lieut ...

Takže ahoj (1971)

Those who take too long to choose their life partner usually take too long - so goes the old saying. Even a long indecisive girl, who is looking in vain for someone who would fully impress her, is convinced of its truth... ...

Comrades (1971)

Chytilová was not allowed to direct films between 1969 and 1976. The sole exception was the made-for-TV film Kamarádi, now virtually unknown. ...

Almara (1971)

Z lékárníkova deníku (1971)

Člověk neumírá žízní (1970)

The film essay is quite possibly the pinnacle of Václav Hapl's work. It focuses primarily on the topic of drugs, which it places in a broader framework, pointing out the self-destructive tendencies of modern civilization. Through his internal and to a cer ...

Ještě špetku tymiánu (1969)

Houslista (1969)

Ve vlaku (1969)

Křepelky (1969)

A veristic investigation into life at a boarding school for girls on the Czech-Polish border. The austere black and white camera captures everyday moments, the work in the factory and the students' leisure activities. The inner world of the female protagon ...

Lanfieri Colony (1968)

Horn tries to forget the insult caused to his beloved and builds a hut on an island inhabited by a small colony recently founded by the now drunken adventurer Lanfier. Having built the house and restored peace, Horn doesn't know whether to encourage the in ...

Capricious Summer (1968)

Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A m ...

Don Juan 68 (1968)

A television reporter visits the clerk, Mr Drobny, who answers dating ads and makes appointments with many women. ...

Rána pod pás (1968)

Windstorm (1967)

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that she's having an affair with his boss, he devises one elaborate plot after another to murder the rival, each time ...

The Girl with Three Camels (1967)

The fates of the women are repeated: the 16-year-old daughter of a 32-year-old mother is also pregnant. Like her mother, the child remains unmarried and fatherless. From him, the girl receives only an exotic postcard with the titular three camels... ...

Daisies (1966)

Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them. ...

Closely Watched Trains (1966)

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher's apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening an ...

Dva tygři (1966)

When a volunteer police helper is too proactive, he causes more confusion than good. The unfortunate man has no idea what the testimony of an unreliable witness can do... ...

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 ...

Floods (1966)

Documentary about dam rupture. ...

Crime at the Girls School (1966)

Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between climbers, the death of the dancer in the music theater and the strange disappearance of the mathematics pr ...

Pearls of the Deep (1966)

A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded discussions, and death; two elderly men create false biographies; insurance agents visit an eccentric painter/goat ...

Dívka (1966)

Případ Daniela (1965)

Strakatí andělé (1965)

Three stories (Gabriela, Eda and Jana), two of which are dedicated to girls. They share a common motif of disillusionment when the protagonists encounter scorn and disinterest. ...

Kůzlátka otevřete... (1965)

Dobrá rada je nad zlato (1964)

Praha ze soboty na neděli (1964)

Náboj (1963)

Fortress on the Rhine (1962)

During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every possible comfort. In the nearby garrison camp, however, hundreds of captured private soldiers try to survive h ...

Tereza (1961)

Ing. Bernard announces that his wife has not returned from visiting relatives in Berlin. Lieutenant Tereza Machátová, who together with Captain Landa is investigating the matter, puts the facts into connection with the discovery of the drowned woman's bo ...

Lidé jako ty (1960)

A "fairly ordinary and mundane" working day in various operations of large steel mills... ...

Jak se chovati? (1960)

Křižovatky (1959)

Eighteen-year-old Dalibor Daněk grew up in an orphanage, did not get an education and became involved with a group of smugglers in the Ostrava region. But there are those who want to help him selflessly... ...

Of Things Supernatural (1959)

An anthology of three absurd, ironic tales inspired by Čapek's "Tales from One Pocket" and "Fables and Side Stories," each showing uncanny forces disrupting ordinary lives: in Krejčík's "Glorie," a gentle clerk is haunted by a sudden halo; the other two ...

Morálka paní Dulské (1958)

The suffocating conditions in a bourgeois family were depicted in several films in the second half of the 1950s - this one is one of the lesser known, although it achieves great emotional impact, free from the first ideological pressures. The title charact ...

Kasaři (1958)

A detective comedy about ex-cashiers who - except for one - have improved and lead a proper and peaceful life and mostly desperately resist the slightest reminder of their past. However, one of them, Josef Fiala, formerly known as Procházka, is one day as ...

Váhavý střelec (1957)

The hesitant shooter becomes a timid young man who only the war will make a real man. ...

Zlatý pavouk (1957)

A man was killed while trying to leave Czechoslovakia. One and a half kilograms of gold was found on him - not in coins, not in jewelry, not in bars - but in the form of plates used to make teeth... ...

Sons of the Mountains (1956)

The story of a friendship for life and death captures a real event that took place in the snowy Krkonoše Mountains in 1913. The actors of the drama were Bohumil Hanč, one of our first ski racers, and his friend Václav Vrbata. The film's plot takes place ...

Crooked Mirror (1956)

A satirical military "Fashion Show" instructing Czechoslovak soldiers how and how not to dress. ...

Tank Brigade (1955)

The fate of a tank crew on the most difficult part of the First Czechoslovak Independent Brigade's combat path during World War II. We also follow the fate of its commander, Sergeant Juraj Klimka. During the bloody battles for the Dukel Pass, he falls in l ...

Frona (1954)

Frona Filípková, out of a desire for a better life, married Floriš Zobač on the land. However, the ownership of the land has affected both her husband and her father-in-law, who, out of hatred, intrigue against the emerging agricultural cooperative and ...

Vzhůru sportovci (1954)

Olověný chléb (1954)

Setkání v Bukurešti (1954)

Rozloučení s Klementem Gottwaldem (1954)

Let's protect the common property (1954)

Remembrance (1954)

Nad námi svítá (1953)

Kidnapped (1953)

American agents hijack a plane on the Ostrava-Prague route to launch a campaign against the People's Democratic Czechoslovakia. The plane lands in West Germany, but the Americans have an unexpected problem convincing the hijackers to stay in the West. Base ...

They Shall Not Pass (1953)

A documentary depicting the Czechoslovak army's border patrol. ...

Jsme připravení (1953)

Vítězný pochod (1952)

Victorious Wings (1951)

Many of the young workers at an aircraft factory near Prague are members of an aviation club. On the one hand, there is the responsible Franta, who is highly regarded by his colleagues due to his understanding nature. Opposite him is the talented aircraft ...

Alexandrovci u nás (1951)

Přehlídka (1951)

Společně – bez mezí (1951)

Motory – naše chlouba (1951)

Beloved Guests (1951)

This two-partfilm was made in connection with the visit of Soviet collective farmers to agricultural cooperative in Mělnické Vtelno. They come to share with local people the experiences they have gained in cultivating crops and raising livestock. Among o ...

Racek Is Late (1950)

Baker Jan Racek (Vladimír Repa) is a very hard-working and sensible man. His great passion is pigeon-keeping and also, for many years, Ruzenka (Ludmila Vostrcilová). They are going to get married but Racek is busy waiting for the pigeons' return and miss ...

Dělnický dopisovatel (1950)

A construction film about how Hybeš, a wrecker, became a worker's correspondent. ...

Rok stranického učení (1950)

Political documentary film about the second year of party training of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic. ...

Conscience (1949)

Karel Doležal, insurance clerk and exemplary father of a family, leaves for a business trip with his secretary Vlasta. After spending the night together, they both return home. However, thanks to a small moment of inattention, they run over the boys. Kare ...

Valley of Peace and Health (1949)

A film popularising Healthcare in Czechoslovak spa facilities, specifically Luhačovice. Several stories from the lives of patients depict both medical procedures and cures as well as social life and leisure activities in a spa environment. The film highli ...

Zavazujeme se (1949)

Ves v pohraničí (1948)

The family of Prague greengrocer Pavlas was among the first immigrants to settle in the border village of Severov. Together, the new residents manage to harvest their first harvest on time and successfully - but they will have to uncover a German saboteur ...

Život a čísla (1948)

One, a Thousand, a Million (1948)

A film documenting preparations for the 11th Sokol festival – from training in gyms throughout the country to practical issues concerning the organisation of the event. It shows how accommodation, catering, and transport in Prague were dealt with during ...

Nevíte o bytě? (1947)

A comedy about the post-war housing crisis in Prague, which several young people are struggling with. The young puppeteer Josef lives in a sublet with the singer Šimůnek, who is currently missing. After returning from a trip, Josef discovers that a demob ...

A Week in the Quiet House (1947)

A sometimes humorous, sometimes more serious look at the hustle and bustle of a house in Lesser Town with a diverse array of tenants living there, and often petty quarrels that break out between them. Behind the facade of the house in Lesser Town "U dvou s ...

A Dead Man among the Living (1947)

Human bravery can take many forms, just as ideas about it can. Small-town public opinion begins to despise a postal clerk because he gave cash to robbers who didn't hesitate to shoot. The result is a successful study of a man whose previous certainties beg ...

Cukr (1946)

A Christmas Dream (1945)

Christmas has arrived. As a little girl and her parents enter the room, the little girl finds all kinds of toys under the Christmas Tree. She immediately throws her old doll aside and starts playing with her new dolls. But that night she has a dream. Or ma ...

Tři knoflíky (1945)

Všední událost (1943)

Nejvýnosnější prodej (1942)

Hudba Jiří Šust (1994)