Josef Abrhám

Angel 2 (2016)

A story that takes place during Advent, we'll meet again with your favorite pair angel Petronel and devil Urias. Their eternal wrangling causes the rare apple from the tree of the knowledge to roll on earth. And that God is really angry. Petronel with Uri ...

Jak básníci čekají na zázrak (2016)

Even after twelve years, Štěpán, Kendy, and Karas have remained true to themselves. They are inseparable friends with an inexhaustible sense of humor and a knack for self-irony, albeit with a slight touch of skepticism. ...

Korunní princ (2015)

Somewhere in the Forbidden Forest lives the evil wizard Kruciatus. A hundred years ago, he attempted to destroy the kingdom now ruled by King Alexander, who has two sons - the heir to the throne, John, and the younger prince, Charles. However, Charles refu ...

Cyril and Methodius – The Apostles of the Slavs (2013)

The series follows Cyril and Methodius, two Byzantine Greek brothers born in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity and influenced the cultural development of the Great Moravian territory. ...

Little Baby Jesus (2013)

Charming 60-something José returns to Prague after 30 years living in Mexico, though he was convinced that he would never see his hometown again. He was persuaded by his deeply religious Mexican wife Dolores, who is convinced that only a miracle that migh ...

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 ...

Leaving (2011)

A bitter sweet comedy that follows a highly appointed Chancellor who set to step down from his position after years of service to his country. With just two last days left to enjoy his palatial villa before he is finally evicted, his situation gradually go ...

Fispan's Apple (2009)

The fairy tale tells the story of a royal couple who cannot have children. With the help of a magical prop, they finally succeed, but in double measure. They give birth to twins. Which prop is responsible for this? Well, take a guess, or better yet, take a ...

Kouzla králů (2008)

In a land of two kingdoms - one ruthless under King Vladan's conquests, the other hidden behind a magical lake and ruled by kindly King Dobromil - Queen of Fire enchants Princess Mariana in living flame to force Dobromil's hand in ceding the kingdom's fabl ...

Anatomie gagu (2008)

I Served the King of England (2007)

Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always di ...

Beauty in Trouble (2006)

Marcela can't bear Jarda any longer, so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom's, whose husband is a creep. While Marcela is there, Jarda is jailed, because he is part of a gang steeling cars and they get caught in the act. Benes, the urbane m ...

Restaurace U Prince (2005)

A cheerful fairy tale about how two young people who initially didn't even want to meet fall in love. The classic theme of searching not only for love but also for happiness in life is interesting for its modern approach and completely contemporary dialogu ...

Černá karta (2005)

Second-rate writer Marton spends his not-yet-advanced old age in a luxurious retirement home. Apart from his grandson, who lives somewhere in Australia, he has no one else in the world. His wife left him long ago, but he cannot forget her. He feels he cann ...

Konecná stanica (2004)

A Slovak film adaptation of the eponymous play Radošina Naive Theatre. Time stood still at a small and neglected Slovak railway station. The locals are stuck in place, know each other well and live according to learned rituals with no prospect of change a ...

Pánská jízda (2004)

Father Viktor, highly capable and successful in his profession, and his son Petr, an equally successful and promising student, suddenly find themselves in an unexpected situation – after the death of their wife and mother, these two exemplary models of t ...

ELFilm (2003)

A minimalist portrait of ultimate love. ...

O víle Arnoštce (2002)

Everything is ready for a big celebration in the forest clearing. The mischievous fairy Arnoštka should get married as soon as possible and as well as possible. But the fairy is more interested in the human world than in marriage and suitors. What could b ...

Elixír a Halíbela (2001)

The king raised two unbearable daughters—Princesses Jája and Anýzka. He no longer knows what to do with them. Perhaps the only solution is to send them to the charming witch Halíbela for re-education! She won't coddle them! But her son Elixír claims ...

All My Loved Ones (1999)

Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. Drama ...

Return to Paradise Lost (1999)

A professor reunites with an old friend who inspires him to return to Czechoslovakia for the first time since he emigrated years ago. ...

Halt, Or I'll Miss! (1998)

It is April 1945, spring begins and ends the war. German transport heading away from Bohemia. ...

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 ...

Městem chodí Mikuláš (1995)

Set in a small-town hospital, the film tells the story of the great suffering of a small rascal, nicknamed "Lies and Steals", who promises his little partner that he will bring St Nicholas - a traditional figure of Czech Advent - to the hospital room. He f ...

Pohádka o Faustovi (1995)

The legend of Doctor Faust tells of man's desire for knowledge and fulfillment in life. ...

Angelic Eyes (1994)

Charming, witty and smart men represent a fictitious insurance company who soon fall for an innocent-looking young woman smarter than she seems. ...

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. ...

Big Beat (1993)

A period musical comedy set in a quiet Prague quarter at the end of the fifties. Using the western plot device of the "man from nowhere" a generation gap story unfolds of changing social climate. The action is driven by the character of a young man named B ...

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 ...

Kafka (1991)

After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. ...

The Beggar's Opera (1991)

Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay. Composers and writers have penned v ...

Flames of Royal Love (1991)

In 1992, Prague is the capital of a small kingdom. The prince is supposed to choose his bride to be at a royal ball. But to everybody's surprise, he chooses an ugly cleaning-woman. She is shy and silent, but after the marriage she turns into a wild and rum ...

Dětinské hry dospělých (1990)

Ark of Fools (1990)

Set in a bleak, filth-ridden provincial hospital, a disillusioned doctor begins to find the philosophical ramblings of a mental patient more stimulating than the company of "sane" society. As their relationship deepens amidst the grimy and decaying wards, ...

Aksál (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 ...

Člověk proti zkáze (1990)

Biography of Karel Čapek. ...

Audience (1990)

A recording of the legendary production "Audience" from the Prague Drama Club with Josef Abrhám and Pavel Landovský. In 1975, Václav Havel worked as a labourer in the brewery in Trutnov; he could do nothing else. And it was here that he made perhaps his ...

Pasiáns (1990)

The story of six men and one woman who, while exploring the underground part of an old palace, discover that they are trapped here and that there is no return. One can survive here, but is mere survival life? This is the question each of them asks, only th ...

El mar es azul (1989)

Portrét krále komiků (1987)

Jubileum (1987)

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 ...

Dokonalý muž, dokonalá žena (1986)

Young Wine (1986)

Third wine session, this time with a computer. The film was made in direct relation to the audience success of the previous two: "Stormy Wine" and "Ripe Wine". In the comedy-oriented story, the computer is an important actor, around which all the events ac ...

Experiment Eva (1986)

In the mid-eighties, screenwriter and director Jaroslav Balík tried to give voice to the problems of an ambitious young woman who decides to get back to work after a few years spent on maternity leave. NFA. ...

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 ...

Výsledek testu (1986)

Prípad Platfus (1985)

The main character of the story is a former biology teacher named Montelík, who ends up in court when he loses his temper and hits his former student, who is the son of a prominent family. The professor finds a kindred spirit during the trial in a young a ...

Princezny nejsou vždycky na vdávání (1985)

If the conceited Princess Hortensia, the lazy, sleepy Princess Julienka and the cunning Princess Melanie had known what the bell hanging above the door to the royal chamber would reveal about them, they would never have come to the castle to woo her. But t ...

Bandité (1985)

Dissolved and Effused (1985)

A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth. ...

Žáku Kašíku, nežeň se! (1985)

Friends Hejbal and Kašík long for adulthood so they can do whatever they want, but when a unique chemistry experiment suddenly allows them to grow up, nothing seems as simple as it first seems... ...

Domek u lesa (1985)

Every one of us has certainly been in a situation for which he or she is not prepared and is not able to orient him or herself immediately and correctly. And the hero of our story also finds out in a rather unpleasant way that it leads to a number of misun ...

Bridal Tour to Jilji (1984)

A scientist meets a nice girl and they start dating. He decides the only way to find out for sure if she's the one is to take a long trip with her, but things don't go quite as he'd hoped. ...

Záchvěv strachu (1984)

Getting out of prison doesn't mean being free. After the bloody suppression of the Prague Revolution in 1848, one of its participants, the writer František Vinický, spent eight years in prison. Returning to Prague in 1857, he tries to make contact with h ...

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. ...

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). ...

Švédská zápalka (1983)

The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his sixtieth birthday party by the news from the administrator Psekov that his master, the cornet Klyausov, has been murdered. A commission, headed by an investig ...

Plášť Marie Terezie (1983)

Společnost s ručením omezeným (1983)

Hráči (1983)

A professional card player and swindler, Icharev, arrives in a small town with a plan to rip off some local jackdaw if possible. However, a trio of local, experienced swindlers have the same plan. They want to play cards with Icharev, but they immediately ...

Spor herečky Kvapilové (1982)

Netopýr (1981)

Tři v tom (1981)

How to marry off two daughters and a maid, especially when the father has no idea that it's high time? Father Ubaldo has worries; his two daughters are constantly complaining about their health. And he would also like to find them husbands. He has no idea ...

Zločin na poště (1981)

A report of embezzlement is made against Helenka, a popular clerk at the village post office. The investigation reveals that she is 200 crowns short and the girl commits suicide. Her protector and friend, the gendarmerie sergeant Brejcha, does not believe ...

Panenka (1981)

Five-year-old Anne Sachs was playing with her Treperenda doll in her room when she heard a scream from the next room. Someone had hurt her mother. Unbeknownst to the girl, she had become a witness to a murder. Detective Steve Carella is on the trail of the ...

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 ...

Proč se lidé bojí zajíců (1981)

Run, Waiter, Run! (1981)

A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and collecting cash from unsuspecting diners. ...

Demokrati (1980)

Tím pádem (1980)

Amadeus Macků, the village postman, is an incorrigible dreamer obsessed with the desire to fly. He invents and builds his own hovercrafts, making himself a thorn in the side of his hillbilly neighbours. The group of pub chatterers are particularly annoyed ...

A Vampire in High-Rise (1980)

Lada is a little boy who likes to read fiction and has a great imagination. He figures out that his sister Eva's boyfriend is a vampire, and so he and his brother put him through various tests that, in effect, cause Eva and her boyfriend to break up for re ...

Polská krev (1979)

Ball Lightning (1979)

A comedy about exchange of 12 apartments , which, its organizer, lawyer Radosta, rightly called Action Ball Lightning. To prepare, organize and execute the exchange of twelve apartments is a work worthy champions. Radosta, who was excellently played by Rud ...

Jak je důležité míti Filipa (1979)

Two gentlemen, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, have a brilliant plan! To spice up their quiet country life and bring some excitement into it, they invent a person they absolutely must travel to. Jack creates an imaginary brother, Philip, who he uses ...

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? ...

Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)

This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecti ...

Vilém Rozkoč (1976)

Fata morgana (1976)

Petr, a printing apprentice, goes to a cottage with his classmate Hanka to learn more about technology. However, Hanka has other ideas about how to spend their time at the cottage. Petr breaks up with Hanka and on his way back from the cottage he meets a y ...

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. ...

Tetované časom (1976)

Operation: Daybreak (1975)

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich. ...

Tři muži se žralokem (1975)

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 ...

Princ Chocholouš (1974)

Zbojník Ondráš (1974)

Quails and King (1974)

Police find a girl with a bleeding face in a small town park at night. First the girl, a textile factory worker Jana, refuses to talk, and then she decides to tell the truth. After her father's death she, by herself, takes care of her younger brother calle ...

Půlpenny (1974)

Sen noci svatojánské (1974)

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a charming comedy by W. Shakespeare, well-known from its numerous stage and film adaptations. In the course of one night, the world of real and fairy-tale characters collide, the king Theseus plans a wedding, the capricious kin ...

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 - ...

Pokus o vraždu (1973)

The main character of the story is Professor Trojan, the head of a Prague clinic, who is not experiencing the happiest of times. His cat has been poisoned with cyanide, he has a falling out with his son Petr, who has moved to Brno to be with his wife, the ...

Poslední dopis (1973)

Morgiana (1972)

Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, blackmail, and the pesky n ...

Konfrontace (1972)

Jeden ze soubojů (1972)

The Harder They Fall (1972)

A Czech TV film adaptation of Budd Schulberg's novel The Harder They Fall, which had previously been made as the 1956 US movie of the same name starring Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger. ...

Návrat pana Ryšánka (1971)

The Matches of a Beautiful Dragoon (1971)

In a suburban villa, a woman of means is murdered. Police Superintendent Zdychynec from the Prague Liben neighborhood reports the case to Police Councilman Vacátko, upon whose order an investigation is launched immediately. Zdychynec begins to suspect the ...

Chance (1971)

The actress, who is starring in a successful theatre production, is offered a big film role by an Italian director. She decides to leave her current certainties behind and throw herself into the whirlwind of a tempting opportunity, only she doesn't count o ...

Revizor (1971)

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

322 (1970)

A story of a man threatened by a fatal illness evaluating his life (the number 322 in the film title stands for the diagnosis of one kind of cancer). He understands his illness as a form of punishment for his cruel deeds in the 1950s. In the face of realit ...

Aesop (1970)

This film brings us back to show us the life of the famous ancient sage Aesop, who helped people with his wisdom in their struggle for freedom and happiness. ...

Kalif čápem (1970)

O tlustém pradědečkovi (1970)

Hvězda (1969)

Who wouldn't want to return to the limelight? Years ago, actress Slávka Hradilová was a movie star. Today, she is approaching 60 and the most she does is appear in commercials. But she still keeps in shape. She regularly meets with friends to help them s ...

Bellevue (1969)

Prague Nights (1969)

A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious blonde. In an abandoned cemetery, she tells him three tales involving black magic and erotic obsession. In "The ...

Ohnice (1969)

Bahno (1969)

A young lieutenant, who is visiting his uncle at the time, goes to collect a debt from a tenant, as requested by his uncle. He wants to get married, and his uncle will lend him money for the wedding if he collects the debts from the tenants. The woman prep ...

Hádankář Vojta (1969)

Natali (1968)

Bedtime Story (1968)

Comedy based on short Sean O'Casey play. John Jo Mulligan finds himself in a situation with which his pious conscience cannot cope. He has spent a night with the cunning seductress Angela. Full of remorse and dreading the ruin of his reputation, he tries t ...

Dita Saxová (1968)

​In 1947 Prague, Holocaust survivor Dita lives in a hostel for orphans, acting as a protective mentor to a younger girl while failing to fix her own shattered life. Unable to form lasting bonds or find a place in a society that has moved on, she drifts t ...

The Nun's Night (1967)

A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the implementation of collectivized agriculture and the mass closure of monasteries and convents. ...

Happy End (1967)

A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes back to explore his previous actions and motivations. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lékař v rozpacích (1966)

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 ...

Bubny (1965)

An anthology in three jazz-infused tales: an idealistic student's romance with a pragmatic trumpeter; a vibraphonist's urgent journey ending in tragedy; and drummer Honza's moral dilemma as he confronts how far he'll go to obtain his dream kit. ...

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. ...

Black Peter (1964)

A few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work. ...

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 ...

On the Tightrope (1963)

Káj Mick has always been called Kočka (Cat). He is a sensitive young man who reacts violently to the misunderstanding of both his family and his surroundings. Finding his own way in life is his problem... ...

A Great Road Ahead (1963)

About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First World War. Not wanting to fight for the interests of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Hašek enters the Red Army and, as a commissar of the international brigad ...

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 ...

Ceiling (1962)

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly sub ...

Where an Alibi Is Not Everything (1961)

"A bored housewife, a husband who married her for show, and a stupid boy who is full of himself because he is dating a Swiss woman." The words of Inspector Tůma sound like they're from a European melodrama, but in fact they come from a Czechoslovak crime ...