Josef Koza

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. ...

Případ mrtvého muže (1975)

In 1955, a detained agent feigns loss of memory, speech and hearing. According to his written statements, his name is Karel Neumann and he was born in Radhost... ...

Girls from a Porcelain Factory (1975)

The fifteen year old Maruska starts as a new staff in the porcelain warehouse. For the boss Svetla it is the last straw. She asked to extend her staff consisting of four girls and a retired lady by a man, not a child. The kind and ever fussy Svetla, battli ...

Břetislav a Jitka (1974)

Oldřich Daňek's play tells a love story from our ancient times about the beautiful convent inmate Jitka and the brave Břetislav, the son of the Bohemian prince Oldřich and the simple laundress Božena. This witty apocryphal uses semi-historical, semi-l ...

Pavlínka (1974)

Albrechtice near Jablonec. Sixteen-year-old Pavlínka Linková lives with her grandmother Barbara, a local midwife who raised her after the death of the girl's parents. The charming girl experiences her first amorous outburst towards Pavel Žák, a young t ...

Joachim, Put It in the Machine (1974)

A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical days and ...

The Man from London (1974)

A British citizen by the name of George Reiner (Jirí Sovák) arrives at Prague airport. He was once a Czech safe-breaker, and has now returned home after thirty years to steal twenty-dollar gold coins still kept in the safe at a private villa in Pilsen wh ...

People from the Subway (1974)

Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and finalizing construction of subway and their lives crossed at certain points of this construction. ...

Evil Night (1973)

Lieutenant VB, disguised as a laborer, is looking for a young woman killer among the staff of a wheel loader. But which of the possible motives found is the right one? ...

Kronika žhavého léta (1973)

A broadly drawn ideological epic set in the summer of 1947 in the borderlands of northern Bohemia: reactionary elements plot to undermine postwar social change while committed local communists struggle to organize workers and defend the emerging order. The ...

Legenda, the Robber (1973)

It is 1905. The police director gets Jindrich Legenda (Eduard Cupák) shadowed as, yet Legenda had served his sentence for a burglary, the jewels have not been found. Russian revolution encouraged also Czech workers to fight for their rights. Radical anarc ...

Pohádka o drakovi (1972)

Vlak do stanice Nebe (1972)

The last winter of the Second World War in the Beskids. To escape the bombing, eight-year-old Dagmar is taken by her mother from Prague to a mountain village. From there, they take the narrow-gauge railroad to school... ...

Otcové a děti (1972)

The Death of Black King (1972)

Prague in the 1930s. A young, pretty girl gets on a crowded tram. She immediately catches the attention of a young man who not only appreciates the girl's charm, but also tries to steal her handbag discreetly. And so we meet one of the main characters of t ...

Velikonoční dovolená (1972)

Soldier Honza Marek got a three-day leave. Marta, whom he dated before the war, did not wait for him, but she prefers him again to her new admirer, the impractical and still dreamy Ivan... ...

Zázrak v Oužlebičkách (1972)

Vím, že jsi vrah... (1972)

Dana Martinová, a young woman of loose morals, dies at the hands of a mentally unstable young man, Pavel Zach. In a fit of jealousy, he could not restrain himself and killed the girl with a blow to the head. The police find the corpse thanks to Dana's fri ...

Lekce (1972)

During World War II, a German university professor creates a spy ring that supplies the Allies with information about Nazi plans... ...

Madame Sans-Gène (1972)

Women Offside (1971)

Kastl is a hairdresser but his real passion is his second job as football referee. This job takes all his free time and makes his wife very nervous. ...

Proměny nože (1970)

A young waitress, Dana, works in a roadside motel. She longs for the big, distant world, for beautiful things, and perhaps even for love. But her life is filled with various short-term relationships, her lover is a passing truck driver, a rich, elderly str ...

On the Trail of Blood (1970)

Major Kalas from the Prague criminal intelligence service has been sent to a small town of Dubá in North Bohemia to help with the investigation of the puzzling death of a child. A gypsy boy has been killed three weeks ago and his body found under a rock. ...

Přehlídce velím já! (1969)

A cunning plan to deprive an "illegal millionaire" of his ill-gotten wealth. But the catch is that someone else has an even more subtle plan... ...

První láska (1969)

„Rakev ve snu viděti...“ (1968)

The Ronov castle has been changed into a hotel, offering stylish facilities to its guests: weddings in the torture chamber, a Black Lancer kidnapping brides, a night's lodging in a family tomb etc. The reformed petty swindler Felix Pacínek (Bohumil Smída ...

Zázračný hlavolam (1968)

On one Sunday, when a scrap metal collection is announced, the children find a strange wire puzzle that grants every wish. Soon the town where the children live and go to school is in turmoil. But selfish adults, eager to investigate the mystery, destroy 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. ...

Soud pana Havleny (1967)

Transit Carlsbad (1966)

Several foreign agents are interested in a famous Austrian scientist, the discoverer of an artificial protein. The endangered man never notices the trouble around him. His protection was entrusted to the mysterious Madame Elizabeth, amongst agents famed as ...

Lady on the Tracks (1966)

Tram driver Marie has far too much to do after her shift is over. But she likes to do it all since she loves her husband Václav sincerely. One day she spots him on the Lesser Town Square in Prague, kissing an attractive blonde good-bye. It seems to Marie ...

Volejte Martina (1966)

The series of children's films about Detective Martin, who intervenes in cases involving children, begins with this film. It consists of two short stories: in the first ("Three Bottles"), the young hero, escaping from an orphanage, gets involved in a robbe ...

Nobody Will Laugh (1966)

A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets out of hand. ...

Fotbal (1965)

In 1965, the experienced director Jaroslav Mach made a documentary film with staged scenes, which dealt with the current problems of popular Czech sport. Behind the scenes of football, the playmakers looked through slavoje's team, which is preparing for th ...

The Invisible (1965)

A young and ambitious engineer named Švajcar arrives at the family of a businessman as the fiancé of the factory owner's daughter. He meets his father-in-law's brother Cyril, who pretends to be invisible. The family plays this game with him so that they ...

Horký vzduch (1965)

A tragicomedy set in a village where it depicts a diverse assemblage of old geezers spending the autumn of their lives in different ways. Some are amused by watching cars speeding around an obscure bend, but one agonises over both humiliating poverty (his ...

The High Wall (1964)

Jitka is a 12-year-old girl who feels the first stirring of love. She becomes friends with a young man who is hospitalized with paralysis. Jitka visits the man every day and witnesses his slow recovery, but she is unaware that she could have deeper feeling ...

Black Peter (1964)

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

The Hope (1964)

A group of outcasts, including a vagabond and a prostitute, gather at the outskirts of the industrial area of a large Czech city, one of the things that helps some of them survive is alcohol. ...

Láska nebeská (1964)

The filmmakers gave a glimpse into an everyday family through four micro-stories that focused mainly on love plots. They notice the usual situations when things go wrong - for example, on a Sunday off or on holiday, they show how a misunderstood person fee ...

Preclík (1964)

A satire about trying to please "those at the top". ...

The Dynamite Watcher (1963)

Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchman, Hatred and Traces. ...

Maškaráda (1963)

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 ...

Life Without a Guitar (1963)

A group of jolly young people work in the Prague Tesla factory, also spending most of their leisure time together. One of them, guitar player Zdenek, begins to shun his friends' company. He has fallen in love with Vera, who does not belong to the group. Th ...

Blbec z Xeenemünde (1963)

A tragicomedy set in wartime Germany. The protagonist is 16-year-old Bruno, who is considered by everyone to be an uneducated goofus. But he hates the people who mock him so much that he starts to eliminate them with precisely aimed missiles. What the Thir ...

Black and White Sylva (1962)

A character from a musical film falls into the real world in this short, predating similar films by Woody Allen (The Purple Rose of Cairo) and Wojciech Marczewski (Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema). ...

Zlý jelen (1962)

Reportáž psaná na oprátce (1962)

Screen adaptation of Julius Fucik's story about communist fighters. ...

Labyrint srdce (1961)

It is 1955 and the government in Czechoslovakia has declared an amnesty for post-war emigrants. Many of them returned to their families, only young Pavel Kocián's single mother waits in vain for him. Despite her protests, Tomáš Stach, an assembler, is a ...

Pouta (1961)

A young veterinarian, Jiří Klimeš, returns to his native village after graduation. ...

Policejní hodina (1961)

The story of a poor, disintegrating family of a mother Fišerová and her three children. It is set in the 1890s - a time when the poor working classes did not yet have the right to vote or a permanent eight-hour working day. ...

Jarní povětří (1961)

People in Czechoslovakia perceive the events of February 1948 differently. This movie tells how they behave depending on their views, beliefs and character. ...

Páté oddělení (1961)

An American spy agency located in West Germany is interested in information concerning Czechoslovak commercial activities in the Middle East. Agent Rudolf Karlik creates a network of associates in Prague... ...

Black Saturday (1961)

In this crime story, surprisingly, neither the all-powerful criminals nor the spies or saboteurs are pursued, as was once common. The plot is almost mundane: someone unwittingly siphoned off alcohol from a tanker, unaware that it was deadly methyl alcohol, ...

I Survived Certain Death (1960)

Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work in quarries, on the cruel torture of the Nazis and prison solidarity that helped him survive. ...

Great Solitude (1960)

In southern Moravia, in the native village of Velka Samota, a ministry official returns from Prague to lift the declining JZD he helped establish. ...

School for Fathers (1957)

A new teacher with high standards and a strong sense of duty replaces an easy grader. Once bad grades begin to pile up, a product of his predecessor's subservience to the system, the new teacher has to stand up for himself and his students. ...

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 ...