Karel Čapek

The Newt Congress (2022)

For years now, giant talking newts have been used both for their labor and as laboratory animals. The Newt Congress takes place at a conference building surrounded by nature where participants have come together to optimize the exploitation of the animals. ...

Talks with TGM (2018)

On 26 September 1928, Karel Capek and President T.G. Masaryk meet in the gardens of Topolcianky castle to decide about the fate of their joint literary work. Their fiction film dialogue is based on quotes from a future book and their mutual correspondence, ...

Insect (2018)

The Dung Beetle is late, the Parasite is asleep and Mrs Larva is more interested in her knitting than the director's instructions. It's clear: this amateur theatre company has a long way to go before they can perform their version of "The Insect Play", a f ...

Elixir of Youth (2017)

A woman admits that she is 300 years old, and yet, she looks incredibly young and attractive. Inspired by Karel Čapek's play "The Makropulos Affair" for Faberlic. ...

Kanón (2015)

Based on the novel "Adam Stvořitel" by Karel Čapek: angry at the world for its imperfections, Adam destroys everything except himself. God, as punishment, lets Adam rebuild the world to his whim and will. ...

R.U.R. Genesis (2013)

A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explores dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia. ...

Janáček: The Makropulos Affair (2011)

Premiered in 1926, Leoš Janáček's absorbing masterpiece Veˇc Makropulos reflects all the dominant musical styles of the early 20th century, from Bohemian tunefulness to big Straussian phrases, Berg-like jaggedness and primeval rhythms. With the "breath ...

Osudové peníze (2010)

High school teacher Jiří is torn from his solitude and everyday life by an unexpected nighttime visit from his beloved younger sister, former seamstress Růžena. She tells her brother that she has run away from her husband Fanda, a textile merchant, bec ...

Na zámku (2000)

Olga, a young and sensitive governess, comes to an impoverished aristocratic family full of ideals and determination to love the children entrusted to her. Lonely among people, she experiences the feeling of not belonging anywhere. Neither among the arroga ...

Ruffiano and Sweeteeth (1997)

Famed outlaw Lotrando sends his son to a strict Catholic boarding school to learn manners, but the boy becomes too polite to lead the band. When they inadvertently arrive in a sultanate where the princess Zubeida lies gravely ill and are mistaken for physi ...

Zpověď Dona Juana (1991)

A Dog's Tale (1988)

When Grandpa is on his way home, he finds an abandoned puppy on the street. He takes it to his wife and it grows up on their farm. ...

Básník (1987)

O princezně solimánské (1984)

Velká kočičí pohádka (1983)

Recipe of Her Youth (1983)

The beginning of the 20th century. Famous singer Emilia Marty arrives on tour in a European city. At the same time, the Supreme Court intends to close the Gregor-Prus case, a lawsuit that lasted several decades. Albert Gregor unsuccessfully tries to seize ...

Doktorská pohádka (1982)

Who would have thought that the magician Magiáš would need a doctor! But when it came to it and Magiáš lost his voice, his assistant Vincek had to try very hard to get famous doctors - from Hronov, Kostelecký and Skalický - to come to Hejšovina. Bec ...

Pošťácká pohádka (1982)

Plaché příběhy (1982)

Jasnovidec (1981)

The story of the chief prosecutor Dr. Klapka - a self-confident, cold-blooded, calculating man who lives in the comfort befitting his position - and his attractive wife. Dr. Klapka sues the factory owner Muller for murdering his brother and, years ago, his ...

Zločin v chalupě (1981)

Loupežnická pohádka (1981)

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 ...

Soud pana Havleny (1981)

Velká policejní pohádka (1980)

Dark Sun (1980)

A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive "Krakatit" and soon confronts manipulative agents and imperialist conspiracies. Realizing his invention's threat, he fights to prevent its misuse, ris ...

Hordubal (1980)

After five years of hard work in America Juraj Hordubal (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) returns back home. He is looking forward to his wife Polana (Libuse Geprtová) and his little daughter Hafie. The family and the village welcome him with hesitation. Everybody bel ...

The Macropoulos Method (1979)

Based on the eponymous play by K. Čapek, directed by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR. The Macropoulos Method — an elixir of immortality, the possibility of which becomes a test of the characters' human integrity in the play. ...

The Disappearance Of Actor Bendy (1979)

Commissioner Bartošek is visited by Dr. Goldberg, who reports the disappearance of his friend, the famous actor Benda. From the flimsy evidence, it appears that Benda left his apartment one night without taking anything with him and was taken away by car. ...

Historie dirigenta Kaliny (1978)

Lásky hra osudná (1974)

Record (1973)

The film is based on a story by the renowned Czech writer Karel Čapek, which the filmmakers adapted to the everyday life of the region of Samegrelo in Western Georgia. Samegrelo is home to the "world record in throwing," but the film's protagonist only a ...

Kouzelný dům paní Růženky (1973)

Pan Tomšík (1972)

Věc Makropulos (1971)

Honba za filmovým námětem (1970)

Jak se dělá divadlo (1970)

Spravedlnost pro Selvina (1968)

The fate of the insignificant poet Leonard Undene is transposed into the media atmosphere of the late 1960s. An ironic image of the times, a black comedy about the ease of manipulating the crowd, about the deceitfulness of slogans, about the phenomenon cal ...

The Man Who Could Fly (1968)

The kid by the name of Tomshik recently often dreamed that he could fly. And now his dream came true! The boy was delighted with his new abilities. But the scientific fraternity became interested in such a miracle, and it became very clear that he did not ...

Psí pohádka (1967)

Soud pana Havleny (1967)

Muž, ktorý vedel lietať (1966)

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 ...

A Long Cat Tale (1965)

In this whimsical television play based on a fairy-tale by Karel Čapek, an enterprising detective goes on a globe-trotting adventure to catch a mysterious wizard. ...

Tři (1965)

Loupežnická pohádka (1964)

The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)

Many years after a nuclear war, the human survivors have created a new society where much of the work is done by androids, referred to derisively by humans as "clickers". A police official who is concerned that his sister has become involved with an andro ...

Pošťácká pohádka (1961)

První parta (1960)

The unfortunate 1930s also befell the student Standa Půlpán. For existential reasons, he had to abandon his studies and entered the mines. However, he only slowly and with difficulty became close to the older miners, rough men who were closed in on thems ...

Záhady aneb S Karlem Čapkem v soudní síni (1960)

Psí pohádka (1959)

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 ...

Metoda rady Pitra (1958)

Princezna Solimánská (1956)

Krakatit (1948)

In early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed in the hands of anarchists. ...

R.U.R. (1948)

A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia. ...

Capek's Tales (1947)

Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek. ...

The Insect Play (1939)

A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose in ...

The Hordubals (1938)

Juraj Hordubal returns from America after eight years, where he has earned enough money to improve his farm. However, his daughter Hafia does not recognize him and his wife Polana does not show any joy at his return. Štěpán Manya has been a farmhand on ...

Robot-Girl Nr. 1 (1938)

An inventor, Bubi, creates a female android he calls "Wera." Unfortunately, a gang of robbers finds out about Wera, steals her, and uses her to commit a series of crimes in Prague. (io9. ...

The White Disease (1937)

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery speeches of a dictator, the bacillus of a highly destructive form of leprosy has spread. It is called morbus Tshe ...

Loss of Feeling (1935)

In an unnamed English-speaking capitalist land, a young engineer invents inexhaustible giant robots to replace the fragile human workers on high-volume assembly-lines, and soon finds his invention co-opted by the military-industrial complex. ...

The Robber (1931)

Mimi lives with her parents and the maid Fanka in a villa near the forest. One day, a gamekeeper comes to court Mimi when her parents are away. ...

The Last Years (1963)

This biographical film examines the multitalented personality of Karel Čapek and the context behind the creation of his works such as Krakatit, The White Disease, R-U-R, War with the Newts, or the "pocket stories". ...