Karel Höger

Don Šajn (1983)

30 Maidens and Pythagoras (1977)

A musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and physics teacher employing innovative teaching methods. ...

Zákon starého muže (1976)

Strom vědění dobrého (1976)

Profesoři za školou (1976)

Three stories from the school environment, mostly from the perspective of teachers. In the first story we see an unnecessarily strict teacher, in the middle one a sports career is glossed over, which causes a young teacher to leave his job. In the final st ...

Hřiště (1976)

Civil engineer Luděk Turna accepts an attractive offer from a Prague design office. He tries to get ahead even at the cost of deception, but he recovers in time and voluntarily leaves to build a motorway... ...

Já a Kiki (1976)

Rumcajsí pohádka o vílině šlojířku (1976)

Poklad pod Černou hláskou (1975)

Vlčí halíř (1975)

Ohnivý máj (1975)

Královské usínání (1975)

Sedmého dne večer (1975)

A former aircraft mechanic wants to start a new life in a small border village after a stint in prison and working in the mines. But things don't work out as he would have liked and bad luck follows him. By an unfortunate coincidence, he even falls under s ...

Ticket to the Memorial (1975)

Ing. Kalin is already seventy years old, but he does not recognize old age. He travels, even learns Arabic. He returns to his hometown because he once made a promise to his former love, Bětuška Jarošová, that he would return for her. He is not alone, h ...

Já a Bleděmodrá (1975)

Já a Fousek (1975)

Štrnásty v rade (1975)

Two Brothers (1974)

A love story in which two brothers - naive officer Yuri and demonic lover Alexander - compete for the young married princess Vera. ...

Sám proti městu (1974)

A Night at Karlstein (1974)

No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová manage to spend one night in disguise in the Castle despite the strict royal ban. ...

Půlpenny (1974)

Já a můj dvojnožec (1974)

Já a Bělovous Zrzunda (1974)

Kosmas a paní Božetěcha (1974)

Sešli se na Vlachovce (1973)

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 ...

Otevřený kruh (1973)

The television production captures the last decade of the life of the now world-renowned painter Karel Purkyně (1834 - 1868) and his struggle for the possibility of creative expression. After studying in Paris, he returns to Prague. He is not recognized, ...

Romeo a Julie na konci listopadu (1972)

When sixty-year-old Karel Pluhař meets Marie, a woman who is unhappy in many ways, he feels that if he seizes this opportunity, regardless of petty interests and inhibitions, he may find himself on the threshold of new happiness. ...

Svatba bez prstýnku (1972)

At the end of the occupation, Vojta, a young worker, marries the daughter of a rich builder to protect her from being deployed to the German Reich. Vojta agrees because he secretly loves Alena. But when the newlywed's family learns that Vojta is suspected ...

Lekce (1972)

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

Zdravá vdova 29/169 (1972)

Poutník Václav Vydra (1972)

Z mého života (1971)

Don Šajn (1971)

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... ...

Honor and Glory (1969)

In 1647, the impoverished noble Václav Rynda shelters an imperial commissioner-only to learn the visitors are French agents plotting a Bohemian revolt against the Habsburgs. ...

Marathon (1968)

It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda ( ...

Pan Jordán a Habada (1968)

I, Justice (1968)

At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler is, however, missing. The Czech doctor Herman (Karel Höger) is kidnapped from Prague and driven to the sana ...

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 ...

Čtyři v kruhu (1968)

This drama with a criminal plot is a study of the intricately intertwined relationships of four people whose lives have been interrupted by the violent death of a loved one. The story begins almost classically: when a visitor rings the doorbell of a promin ...

Nahá pastýřka (1966)

At the Ronov castle, the archive-keeper professor Nykl (Milos Nedbal) is searching for the lost painting The Naked Shepherdess by the famous Fragonard. Nykl is just about to disassemble the mantelpiece in the knight's hall, convinced that the painting must ...

Otylie and 1580 Blots (1966)

A modern fairy-tale about Otýlie, a girl who each time she writes something gets all dirty from the ink. One day her teacher wants to clean her with an eradicator and otylie disappears. She is happy to be invisible but due to blots she becomes an ordinary ...

Alibi on the Lake (1966)

Miss Nováková reports to Major Tuma (Karel Höger) from the police about the disappearance of her roommate, the model Zuzana. Shortly afterwards, a film director named Konrád (Otomar Krejca) asks Tuma to cooperate on a new cinéma-vérité film describi ...

Golden Queen (1965)

A man returns to his native village in search of renewed faith and his old girlfriend. But she, now a middleaged woman, does not recognise him and he goes home, more disillusioned than ever. ...

Fugue on the Black Keys (1965)

Fati Farari, a black man from Africa, is completing his studies in classical piano at the Music Academy of Prague. It's the day before his first solo concert, where he is going to play Bach. While he strolls around the city he is thinking, not so much abou ...

Komedie s Klikou (1964)

On the train to Prague, the bride-to-be Zuzana Vítová accidentally meets the clerk Dr. Karel Jánský. Upon arriving in Prague, it seems that Jánský follows the girl on her way from the station, but it turns out that the two of them have only a common ...

Loupežnická pohádka (1964)

Bez svatozáře (1964)

An outdated fireclay factory is due to close, but its long-time employees can't imagine stopping what has fed them all their lives and what they do best... ...

Doktorská pohádka (1964)

Lucie (1964)

The leader of the fast-track workers' party is appointed worker director of the unprofitable Lucie mine. The wrong decisions he makes to increase production at any cost and to fulfil an unrealistic plan lead to a catastrophe in which his son is accidentall ...

A Face in the Window (1963)

A movie built up of three stories about life in a small Slovak town. The Prosecutor: the district attorney is a jazz orchestra soloist at the same time and that is much disliked by the local provincial society. The Defender: is about a young doctor's relat ...

Spanilá jízda (1963)

In the Hussite times, religious truth was sifted even on the tips of weapons. When in 1430 the Hussites set out on a raid to Nuremberg, the so-called Spanila Cavalry, to defend their doctrine, the young commander of the cavalry, the landowner Keřský, who ...

Horoucí srdce (1963)

The years 1851-1856: events from the life of the writer Božena Němcová, who, because of her free-thinking views and strong patriotic feelings, comes into conflict with the society, the church and the Austrian authorities... A cold, too readable version ...

Fortress on the Rhine (1962)

During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every possible comfort. In the nearby garrison camp, however, hundreds of captured private soldiers try to survive h ...

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)

A 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it, accompanied by Cyrano de Bergerac and the characters from Jules Verne's novels about the conquest of the satellite. ...

Kohout plaší smrt (1962)

A group of saboteurs search for a weapons cache hidden by the Nazi army. Beskydy in the summer of 1950: the StB agent Borek infiltrates a group of saboteurs hidden in the Beskydy mountains. They are preparing terrorist actions against the ongoing collectiv ...

Václavské náměstí (1962)

Florián (1961)

A mobile chapel of St. Florian is moved every week between the villages of Zbořov and Spáňovice. The farmer Florian Jírovec, who has to provide his horses for this event, is tired of it and therefore supports the proposal to build a proper brick chapel ...

Every Penny Counts (1961)

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

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 ...

August Sunday (1961)

This lyrical comedy story takes place in two hot days in the small South Bohemian village. On the shore of a small pond, summer guests and local youth meet. As is typical of the works of Hrubín, it is a conflict of youth and age, life and death, represent ...

Our Little Red Riding Hood (1961)

Czechoslovakian cartoon version of Little Red Riding Hood. Here, Red Riding Hood's family finds a way to take care of the wolf. ...

Pochodně (1961)

Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly paid workers resemble torches because their clothes are soaked with poisonous phosphorus. Young Josef Rezler also works in the sulphur factory and uses his e ...

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. ...

Pošťácká pohádka (1961)

Hrdinové okamžiku (1961)

Národní umělec Zdeněk Štěpánek (1960)

A film medallion of actor Zdenek Stepanek. ...

Tři tuny prachu (1960)

The Prague Research Institute of Air Engineering is to prepare a proposal to reduce dust in Ostrava, especially in the area where the new power plant is to be built. That is why engineers Vojtěch Spára and Jiří Zástěra will travel to Ostrava. Eva Fr� ...

Jak se chovati? (1960)

Psí pohádka (1959)

A 105 p.c. Alibi (1959)

On an early Sunday evening, people of the small town are reading lottery results that are hung on a board. Young man Karel Antos is annoyed that his lottery-ticket missed the main prize, a car, by only one number. Karel is going to the pub to drink away hi ...

The Plain Old Maid (1959)

At the end of the 1950s, some filmmakers attempted to escape the ideological dictates by turning to psychological drama. We watch as an aging, uptight, strict woman who has come to inspect a regional publishing house literally blossoms and snows. A few day ...

The Road Back (1959)

Three young men carry out a failed robbery of the box office of the Blaník cinema in Prague with tragic consequences. Only one of them has a chance to redeem himself. ...

Hry a sny (1959)

Lyrical short story film about children's fantasy based on Ludvík Aškenázy's short stories Little Christmas and Lovers from the Box. ...

Občan Brych (1959)

František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and grows increasingly alienated, even as his former love Irena, unhappily married to factory owner Ondřej Ráž, seeks his understanding. When he helps plan a ...

The Choo-Choo Train (1959)

A puppet fairy tale about a disobedient train that did not just want to carry coal and drove to return to his work after a sad experience. ...

Zde jsou lvi (1958)

The rude and bitter mining engineer Štěrba strongly opposes the proposal of his colleague Ing. Vochoče to reopen mining in the old mine. Vochoč's plan is precisely prepared and could solve many problems. However, Štěrba does not want to explain anyth ...

Butterflies Do Not Live Here (1958)

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

How Man Learned to Fly (1958)

A short, humorous history of aviation based on Kamil Lhoták's book "Balloons, Wings, Propellers. ...

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. ...

Jurášek (1957)

The Czech feature film, based on the book of the same name by J. Sosnar-Gazda, focuses on teenagers. The hero of the film is a boy named Jurášek from the Moravian Slovácko region, who helped the partisans during the war. He confirmed that his father was ...

Vintage Car (1957)

The history of motoring in Bohemia begins when Laurin and Klement founded a factory for the production of motorcycles. In 1904, the first motorcycle races were held in Dourdan, France, in which Czechs also participated. Czech mechanic František and Nanett ...

Johnny's Journey (1957)

Five years old Johnny is going for his first journey with no parents. ...

The Pig Shepard (1957)

Puppet adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale. ...

Kam s ním? (1956)

Based on Jan Neruda's column of the same name, which depicts the troubles of an old straw man. The film is introduced by poet Jaroslav Seifert with a speech about Jan Neruda and his work. ...

The Road Leads to Tibet (1956)

Silvery Wind (1956)

Second half of the 19th century. In a small town in South Bohemia, fifth-former Jan Ratkin is living through the confusions of first love together with his classmates. ...

A Life at Stake (1956)

The year is 1941 and the German Nazis rule Bohemia with a free hand. Engineer Otakar Racek is an extremely cautious man who tries to avoid problems at all costs. While some of his colleagues are being arrested by the Gestapo, he receives an offer to become ...

Nezlob, Kristino (1956)

Jan Žižka (1956)

The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420. ...

V pasti (1956)

From My Life (1955)

The film, in individual episodes, captures the fate of Bedřich Smetana from 1856 until the end of his life, from his young years until the moment when, exhausted by human and artistic hardship, he sees the fulfillment of his great dream, the opening of th ...

About The Doll That Wept Thinly (1955)

A dog and a cat have a long time like this because of the rain, so they talk about how it would be nice to have some toys when the weather is bad outside. The next day, when it is already nice and the animals go outside, they find a crying doll thrown in t ...

How a Dog And a Cat Used To Write (1955)

What happened to a dog and a cat when they decided to write a letter to the children about liking all the dogs and cats in the world. Evening adaptation of the tale from Čapkov Talking about a dog and a cat. ...

Jan Hus (1955)

The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The film captures the period from May 1412 to the summer of 1415, a turbulent time in the Czech Kingdom, during which there w ...

Aquarius (1955)

A color puppet film based on the famous ballad of K. J. Erben "Aquarius". ...

Modrý den (1954)

Večery s Jindřichem Plachtou (1954)

Kavárna na hlavní třídě (1954)

On his first day in a new place, waiter Josef Kučera stands up for his old servant Bartoš and bellhop Svát. His actions earn him the distrust of the café owner Stýbl, the admiration of the maid Jindřiška, and the hatred of her suitor, the waiter Vac ...

Pozdní láska (1954)

Lidé jednoho srdce (1953)

Old Czech Legends (1953)

A monumental piece of art bringing the heroes of the ancient Czech myths back to life. The picture consists of seven parts: Cech the Forefather, Bivoj, Libuse, Premysl, Girls War, Horymir, Lucka War. ...

Evžen Oněgin (1953)

Nástup (1953)

"The Rally" is based on a communist writer Vaclav Řezáč's well-written novel of the same name ...

Early Days (1953)

Early Days follows the early life of famous Czech writer Alois Jirásek. Jirásek had already developed his own view of the history of the Czech nation while he was at grammar school in Broumov. When he becomes the supply teach in Litomyšl, he has already ...

About The Proud Nightgown (1952)

He hopped, jumped, played with a cat in the meadow, rolled barrels, did somersaults and all kinds of other comedies, and in the process somewhere he got a sharp splinter in his paw. It was a small splinter, but it hurt a lot and he couldn't step on that le ...

Mikoláš Aleš (1952)

A biographical film about the famous Czech painter Mikoláš Aleš, portrayed as part of the vanguard of the working class and a spokesman for the oppressed, who asserts himself despite the opposing bourgeoisie and reactionaries of all kinds. The film focu ...

Red tulips (1952)

Who Is the Mightiest (1952)

How Dog With Cat Baked a Cake (1951)

A dog and a cat will bake a big cake. What do they put in that cake? How will it be baked? How will he decorate it? Come and watch a great cooking adventure with us... ...

How a Dog And a Cat Washed The Floor (1951)

One day, a dog and a cat saw how filthy their house was. They decided to clean her up. It was quite a cleaning, until their heads were spinning and their paws hurt! And how did they do it? See for yourself... ...

How Dog Tore His Pants (1951)

When the dog and the cat still farmed together (however, we talked about it here, how skillfully they washed the floor and how they both dried themselves in the sun afterwards) and they still had their house and ran their business in it, there was one East ...

China in battle (1950)

A documentary film about the history and present of the struggle of the communist troops led by Mao Zedong and Chu Tie in China. ...

Léto (1949)

Lost in the Suburbs (1949)

Czechoslovak drama film about soldiers returning from World War II ...

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. ...

A Week in the Quiet House (1947)

A sometimes humorous, sometimes more serious look at the hustle and bustle of a house in Lesser Town with a diverse array of tenants living there, and often petty quarrels that break out between them. Behind the facade of the house in Lesser Town "U dvou s ...

A Dead Man among the Living (1947)

Human bravery can take many forms, just as ideas about it can. Small-town public opinion begins to despise a postal clerk because he gave cash to robbers who didn't hesitate to shoot. The result is a successful study of a man whose previous certainties beg ...

Tanečnice (1943)

The bourgeois family does not forgive, from her point of view, inappropriate behavior - contempt overtakes both the girl who decides to dedicate her life to dancing and her sister, who takes in her child, passing it off as her own. The sinister lesson is t ...

Čtrnáctý u stolu (1943)

Thirteen people have gathered at Mayor Bartoš's. The company is uneasy about this number and therefore warmly welcomes the fourteenth guest, who is the new librarian Pavel Čtrnáctý... ...

Okouzlená (1942)

In the garden of Hojtaš's estate, local dignitaries gather to watch a theatrical performance starring the author of the play, Dr. Pavel Chvojka, the landowner's granddaughter Olga, and Lenka, her ward. Lenka is intoxicated by the theater and Pavel, but he ...

Gabriela (1942)

Gabriela Tuzarová still loves her husband Petr very much, even though he has cooled off towards her. Petr is an accountant in a printing house. He secretly speculates on the stock market and maintains a relationship with the owner of the company, Šeborov ...

Modrý závoj (1941)

Marta Hornová, a blind soloist of the radio orchestra, becomes acquainted with the actor of the state drama Robert Holan. He also meets her sister Helena, a talented sculptor, whom he mistakes for Marta. However, when he returns her blue veil, which she s ...

Turbina (1941)

The imperial councilor Ullik decides to modernize his old mills by installing a new turbine. His eccentric brother-in-law Artuš tries to prevent this, as the construction work disrupts the statics of the tower in which he lives. Ullik's older daughter Tyn ...

The Incendiary's Daughter (1941)

The fiddler Valenta has troubled his wife with his drinking and disorderly life. His daughter Rozárka and her younger sisters go to their aunt's in Prague, and their father sets fire to the abandoned house. Rozárka is suspected... ...

Za tichých nocí (1941)

Jana's beautiful niece arrives in Prague to live with two spinster aunts. Both women wish to marry her off. The son of the court councilor Petr is courting her. However, Jana has met a young official Záviš and the two fall in love. But Záviš is poor an ...