Josef Patočka

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 ...

Podivné přátelství herce Jesenia (1990)

Romance o vodníkovi (1989)

O nejchytřejší princezně (1987)

The princess had been proclaiming herself to be the smartest of them all for so long that the people in the castle had to believe it. Only the prince who came to court her was able to openly show her that he was not interested in such an uneducated and con ...

Pěsti ve tmě (1987)

The year is 1936, the nervous atmosphere of the Nazi threat penetrates into the sport. Upgrade boxe Vilda Jakub will compete with German Kurt Schaller. The Nazis decisions are used in order to win his master even the dirtiest means. Vilda inspect their gam ...

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. ...

Tísňové volání (1986)

A dramatic patrol car weekend on the streets of Prague's city centre. Lieutenant Josef Kabát and his colleagues drive through the centre of Prague every day in a patrol car. He loves his neighbourhood more than anything and wouldn't trade it for a more co ...

O mrtvých jen dobře (1986)

Shades of Fern (1986)

Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef's older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more ...

Hubert the Smart Boy (1985)

Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like every likable rogue, he has a worthy adversary - Police Inspector Mourek, who has long been trying in vain to put him behind bars. ...

Third Clinch for Tommy (1984)

A detective story set in a youth mountaineering club. One of the members, Ivan Kočička, nicknamed Kocour, single-handedly investigates the mystery of the body of an unknown man, which he discovered in a cave on top of a rock. ...

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 ...

Vítr v kapse (1983)

The main characters of the film, inspired by director Soukup's own experiences at the Škodovka factory in Pilsen, are two inseparable friends who, after graduating from the industrial school, join a large engineering plant. Here they spend their first yea ...

Nezralé maliny (1982)

A story about a meeting of high school graduates from Písek, a story about the enduring power of friendship, love, honesty and duty. ...

Načasovaná smrt (1982)

Blob to the Fairytale (1981)

Little Vendulka receives a birthday gift of a seemingly innocuous children's book. Little she knows that the book is actually a portal into the surreal world of nursery rhymes and Josef Lada's paintings. ...

Vrabci z devátého poschodí (1981)

Just Whistle a Little (1981)

Several big-city teenagers are falsely accused of vandalizing a valuable organ, casting light on the hypocrisy of the adult world. ...

Na dvoře vévodském (1979)

Smrt císaře a krále Karla IV. (1979)

Králova žena (1978)

The charming Indian girl Madeline is the wife of the gold digger Charlie, called the King. While they were in the wilderness, his wife was very suitable for him. But now he is selling the land and wants to run a big house. So he needs a woman to represent ...

Smuteční hudba za padlé hrdiny (1977)

Preclíková válka (1977)

Povídky Svatopluka Čecha (1977)

Klient (1974)

Egyptologové (1974)

Comedy, 1974 (Czech Republic) : The movie takes place in England. A group of married middle-aged gentlemen have founded a pretense amateur Egyptology society to maintain some degree of freedom from their wives. The elaborate trick gradually escalates into ...

Tichý svědek (1974)

Leporelo aneb Patero obrázků z pera Jaroslava Haška (1974)

Kost v krku (1973)

Bratr Žak (1973)

Jak Anče s komtesou k modrému z nebe přišly (1972)

Pohár za první poločas (1972)

Touha Sherlocka Holmese (1972)

Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa orchestra, but he is again and again distracted by criminal cases. Therefore he is the only one who does not see that his violin has no future. He solves the ...

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 ...

Muzikant (1971)

Třírohý klobouk (1971)

Věc Makropulos (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 ...

A Ridiculous Gentleman (1969)

When a noted professor receives a new treatment for his heart ailment, his outlook on life changes. Despite doctor's orders, he is determined to live out his final days on his own terms and fulfill his fantasies. He saves the life of a young woman who trie ...

Buřič Jejího Veličenstva (1969)

Hádankář Vojta (1969)

Lacrimae Rerum (1967)

Etuda pro kontrabas (1963)

Zelené obzory (1962)

A young agricultural expert fails as the manager of a cattle farm on a state farm in the borderlands... The attempt at a realistic view of the problems of nationalised agriculture did not exceed the average of the time. ...

Lucerna (1960)

Přiznání Václava Urbánka (1954)