Jiřina Jirásková

The Don Juans (2013)

An opera troupe in a small town decides to perform Mozart's Don Giovanni. The view behind the scenes uncovers the world of opera without the glitter. A tale of love and disappointment, about music and passionate love-making and about people that live their ...

Vánoční hvězda (2012)

Stationmaster Miloš, a lonely trumpet player nearing fifty, watches life pass him by as he mourns alone at a funeral and pines secretly for Tereza, the charming nurse who boards his afternoon train. Desperate for courage, his bandmates enter him into a t ...

Oldies but Goldies (2012)

A bitter-sweet comedy about two people who wish to live life to the full despite their age. Ota is a retired high-school teacher and at this point in life has various foibles that complicate life for his son and daughter-in-law. Moreover, he has a complica ...

Školní výlet (2012)

A group of classmates is invited to stay at a spa. However, they experience many twists and turns, funny situations, but also personal dramas. At the same time, we follow the story of a young thief who gets a job as a cook at a luxury spa hotel and experie ...

Rafters (2006)

A comedy about funny adventures of boys and girls during the summer vacation. ...

Angel (2005)

An angel who ruins everything he touches is sent to Earth to learn about love, forgiveness and selflessness -- and he has just one day to do it. ...

Povodeň (2005)

It was a fateful August, and devastating floods ravaged Bohemia. Mrs. Gabriela lived alone in a spacious apartment near Prague. Perhaps she just wanted to help, or perhaps she wanted something more: either way, she called the news station to offer accommod ...

Vyvraždění rodiny Greenů (2002)

A detective story set in New York in the 1920s. ...

Kožené slunce (2002)

As the name suggests, the movie is about football. It is not about big league soccer, making huge money. It is about football, which lives just from village fans enthusiasm, from the enthusiasm of fathers and their sons and club officials. And yet on this ...

Bronzová koruna (1997)

During a royal hunt, the young prince is injured under strange circumstances, and his father, the king, falls from a high cliff and dies. The young princess Klára cleverly but persistently questions Prince Vilém about what actually happened during the hu ...

Jak se dělá opera (1996)

The story of a little boy named Sam, who is exploited by two evil chimney sweeps to clean narrow chimneys. ...

Fany (1995)

Oligophrenic Fany (Bohdalová) lives with her aunt who suddenly manages to travel abroad. Fany has to move to her sister (Jirásková). Two very different women, one mentally disabled and the second one intelligent doctor has to live together and learn fro ...

Paper Sleeve (1993)

The title character of this somewhat bitter comedy is Klára Zárubecká, a saleswoman at a train station buffet, a resolute and energetic woman who, with enviable enthusiasm, attempts to restore her family's reputation and thus ensure a happy future for h ...

The Castle in Bohemia (1993)

The countess celebrates her sixtieth birthday at the moment when she is about to leave her castle. The new workers' government wants to mercilessly destroy the nobility. But because Elizabeth Anna Marie, Countess of Lansdorf and Scheinberg, and later domes ...

Kadeř královny Bereniké (1993)

Dva Janové a ovečka (1992)

Talisman aneb Definitivní vítězství kapitalismu nad feudalismem (1992)

Titus is unlucky in life. His handicap is his red hair, which prevents him from finding a job. He ends up in a brewery, where he claims to be the son of the owner. He is exiled under humiliating circumstances and ends up in a castle, where he starts a game ...

The Flying Sneaker (1991)

Little Rehor isn't allowed to play with the other boys. His only friend is the girl next door, Luci. Rehor's father is doctor on a boat and he has sent Rehor a package with butterfly larvae. When they hatch he discover a fairy who can do magic tricks. ...

Sun, Hay, Erotica (1991)

The local farmers' cooperative organized a trip to Italy, in which the Škopkovci took part. They went there at the invitation of the Italian agricultural cooperative, whose employees are going to visit Hoštice in return. In addition to the sights, the go ...

Koho ofoukne větříček (1991)

It seemed that the arrogant princess was tormenting the king with her whims. When she thought she would only marry a groom as frail as herself, the castle could no longer cope with her. But the play, full of comic situations, which was unleashed around Cla ...

Klaním se, Měsíci! (1991)

Víla z jeskyně zla (1991)

No one has ever managed to enter the dark cave of the fairy Asteria twice. Anyone brought here by chance or curiosity has been petrified. Only the brave Tomas was able to convince the fairy that his anger was mostly self-inflicted. In the end, it wasn't ev ...

Přes padací mosty (1991)

O princi, který měl smůlu (1990)

About Prince Leopold, who is not independent due to the poor upbringing of his royal parents. He makes up thousands of excuses for whatever he has to do. He likes to claim that he is unlucky and that if he had a dwarf, he would grow up too. The White Lady ...

Twins at the Zoo (1990)

The parents decided to send two twins, Honza, and Martin, on vacation to their grandfather. ...

Muka obraznosti (1990)

The film tells the story of an enthusiastic young man who joins a textile factory in the late 1950s and assumes that a promising career awaits him - the protagonist is therefore constantly comparing himself to his favourite literary model, the equally ambi ...

Tale '88 (1989)

The lead character is a young woman who becomes close with a colleague of her husband. She finds herself at an important crossroad in life and considers whether to take a decisive step. ...

Než poznáš první úsměv (1989)

Sun, Hay and a Couple of Slaps (1989)

For a second time this film leads us to the village in South Bohemia. We meet again Konopnik family and Skopek family. Venca Konopnik is marrying Blazena Skopek but there is another woman Milada who is very jealous and she is spreading gossips about Venca ...

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 ...

Ohnivé ženy mezi námi (1988)

The final part of the ghost triptych will take Marta, Magdalena and Janko to the world of television. The 700th anniversary of the town of Milotín is being celebrated, there is a pilgrimage on the square, an improvised stage, prepared for the jubilee vari ...

Když v ráji pršelo (1988)

Petr and Lída Kadlec are moving to a dilapidated mill in the Bohemian Forest, which they plan to convert into a restaurant. Unsuspected obstacles from the locals get in the way of their dreams and ideas. ...

Žena v trysku století (1988)

Maria Stuarda (1988)

Donizetti's opera as film. ...

Poslední leč Alfonse Karáska (1987)

Alfons Karásek has an important task ahead of him – to introduce his young protégé, who is still very inexperienced in this field, to the art of seducing girls. ...

Střecha nad hlavou (1987)

„Arabesky“ (1987)

A television adaptation of Jan Neruda's short stories The Bachelor and Mr. Carpet's Marriage. ...

Podivná nevěsta (1987)

If the shoemaker Prokop did not know how to sew such wonderful shoes, he would hardly have met a mysterious girl named Serpentia. Prokop is about to marry his Verunka, but the mysterious Serpentia charms him and when she invites him to the ball, the young ...

Párátko (1987)

Můj hříšný muž (1987)

A Czech film about love and marital crisis as a work injury. ...

Klobouk, měšec a láska (1986)

Případ nevinné řeky (1986)

O houbovém Kubovi a princi Jakubovi (1986)

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 ...

Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval (1985)

The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the expensive decorations of the Variety Theatre auditorium (built for the Circus Humberto series). They smiled and ...

Sun, Hay, Strawberries (1984)

A Czech agricultural student, Šimon Plánička, arrives at the small South Bohemian town of Hoštice, and joins the local JZD (agricultural co-op) with the intention of trying out his experiment regarding the "Milk yield of cows in regards to a cultured e ...

Katapult (1984)

Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life. ...

Now It's My Turn, Now It's Yours (1984)

Three generations live side by side. The wilful, jack-in-all-pots grandmother blackmails the family with fake faintings, while grandpa suffers from cerebral sclerosis. Mother manages a fashionable hotel, she needs to look smart and unyielding, even when th ...

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 ...

Sestricky (1984)

A Czech psychological film about the school of life, its sorrows and beauties. The main character is a young aspiring nurse Marie Sahulová, who, after a trouble in the hospital - she secretly brought a boy to her boarding school - is transferred to a rura ...

Komtesa Mary (1984)

Boot Called Melichar (1983)

A stories about friendship and love, children and parents, students and teachers - all from one regular Czech school during the eighties. ...

Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)

Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminalist, poet, writer and philosopher). ...

O labuti (1983)

Story about fate, and their fatal consequences. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christening (1981)

Deputy of cartography enterprise Mr. Ciruvka tries to seduce the colleague's assistant to destabilize his confident in a run for the director's chair. But things can go wrong. ...

The Hit (1981)

Mr Jiš managed to give his first script at Barrandov. Already in the preparatory phase, he discovers with horror that the filmmakers have completely bypassed his intention - instead of a probe into the life of a contemporary village, they are preparing a ...

Escape Home (1980)

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted. ...

Julek (1980)

The future communist journalist Julius Fučík had a stimulating childhood and youth in a working-class environment, when his moral maturity was already showing. The authors of the film recall that the young Julek was a star of the suburban operetta scene, ...

How to Catch a Tiger (1977)

Short movie by Bretislav Pojar ...

About the Thick Fog (1976)

Short film made by Bretislav Pojar ...

Jak se dělal Radiojournal (1973)

Obavy komisaře Maigreta (1971)

Den se sedmi křížky (1970)

On the Comet (1970)

When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swathe of humanity, along with it. ...

Devilish Honeymoon (1970)

Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This will inevitable lead to all sorts of mischief, crime and even a murder. This murder-comedy, shot at the da ...

A Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)

Lemuel Gulliver has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds ...

Jak se dělá divadlo (1970)

Brouk v hlavě (1970)

I, Mournful God (1969)

Adolf, the irresistible seducer of women, is fond of Janicka, a novice opera singer. The girl, however, prefers famous men and Adolf thus does not have a single chance with her. One day in a hospital, he meets a Greek partisan named Apostolek who impresses ...

Men About Town (1969)

Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague. ...

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 ...

Meze Waltera Hortona (1969)

The fact that the man succumbed one morning to an irresistible urge to sit down at the piano and play the entire Chopin Sonata in B Minor would not have been so strange if it had not been for the fact that he had never played the piano in his life and he h ...

Ještě špetku tymiánu (1969)

Naše bláznivá rodina (1968)

Twelve-year-old Jana returns from the hospital. She notices some changes at home and is worried that her parents are going to divorce. In reality, however, they are expecting another child. ...

How to Get Rid of Helenka (1968)

Radio announcer Petrícek reads the evening news in a studio. Viki, the female editor of a woman's program, is annoyed by the stereotypical information he provides as well as by the speaker's melodious voice and his heart-felt performance. Then she gets an ...

Jindřich IV. (1968)

Deštník (1967)

The House of Lost Souls (1967)

An escaped inmate of a mental home, Franz Moose, has been found shot dead in the forest. In the course of their investigation, District Commander Havel (Jirí Adamíra) and Lieutenant Mares (Miroslav Zounar) slowly work their way through the complicated ca ...

Grandpa, Kylian and I (1967)

The Karpísek married couple, both doctors, are leaving for London for two months on business. They entrust their five-year old son Jozánek to the care of their neighbor, Mrs Pokorná. ...

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 ...

Cesta řeky k moři (1966)

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 ...

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 ...

Pension pro svobodné pány (1965)

A young man living in a strictly run boarding house secretly brings a girl of loose morals into his room at night, who is nevertheless well-groomed and takes great advantage of her situation. For the heart of the comedy lies in the problem of how to get ri ...

90° in the Shade (1965)

In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic problems of his own uncovers serious stock discrepancies. A test of loyalties and a questioning of values conc ...

Čintamani & podvodník (1965)

Two short stories by Karel Čintamani a ptáci An avid collector of carpets, MUDr. Vitásek discovers a unique piece in Mrs. Severýnová's junk shop - a Persian carpet with a pattern of birds. As a connoisseur, he knows that there are only three of these ...

Tales About Children (1965)

Three small short stories, each of which was created by one of the famous Czechoslovak filmmakers of children's films: Magdalena, Fraud and Karp. ...

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. ...

Einstein kontra Babinský (1964)

A satire about small and large crooks who thrive in a planned economy. They made great use of all its strengths and weaknesses. ...

Revue pro banjo (1964)

Songs about eternal love, American vagabonds, cowboys and desperadoes, with the romance of railways and trains speeding into the distance are recorded as film songs, and so, for example, in the well-known standard Franck and Johnny you will see M. Kopecký ...

Kdy brečí muži (1964)

The story of a boy who finds himself in hospital. ...

Pozdní láska (1962)

Měšťáci (1962)

Every Penny Counts (1961)

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

Pohled do očí (1961)

Olga Valentová, whose father was a communist resistance fighter and died during the occupation, works in the export department of Tatrovka. The young woman recapitulates her life and returns to her father's ideals. ...

Ztracená revue (1961)

The music and dance revue about the clown and the girl from the poster takes place in the streets of Prague, in the quiet corners of the Old Town, Lesser Town and Hradčany with the famous motifs of the Gothic gargoyles of St. Vitus Cathedral at Prague Cas ...

Střevíčky (1961)

It's a crisp autumn morning. Marta prepares breakfast and goes to work. Little Jenda has a sore throat, so she has to go to her grandfather's to look after the boy. On the way to work, she reflects on the monotony of her life and marriage, and doubts wheth ...

Skid (1960)

Spy film about a man with a face lift who gets recruited by western organisations. ...

Butterflies Do Not Live Here (1958)

A documentary about the life of Jewish children forced to live in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. ...

Po noci den (1956)

A Czech art film set in a modern village. The main character of the film is Karla Tolarová, a worker from a Prague printing house, who arrives for a harvest shift at a unified agricultural cooperative in Běšíčice at a critical time for the cooperative ...

Krejčovská povídka (1954)