Karel Pavlík

Death Chooses (1973)

Radek Simek, the driver of a postal car, is shot dead on his regular route. The Investigators give up initial suspicions of robbery, because he carried no greater amount of money. Even questioning Honza Marek, another mail car driver, brings no result. Whe ...

Road (1972)

A young man steals a doctor's car and has to pretend to be a doctor himself. ...

The Girl on the Broomstick (1972)

A teenage witch, frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, finds herself in a modern world. ...

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 ...

Člověk není sám (1972)

A dedicated chairwoman of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in cooperation with a StB major clears a politically immature researcher of the charge of aiding subversives... ...

Klícka (1972)

The apartment in the old house is occupied by a large family: a couple with three daughters, one of whom lives here with her husband and child. The young people want their own apartment, while the mother, who is indiscriminately directing the whole family, ...

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. ...

Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1971)

Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply increases, Camel is mistakenly regarded as a mass murderer and cunni ...

The Key (1971)

Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. ...

On the Comet (1970)

When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swathe of humanity, along with it. ...

Devilish Honeymoon (1970)

Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This will inevitable lead to all sorts of mischief, crime and even a murder. This murder-comedy, shot at the da ...

Kapacita (1970)

I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)

This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision ...

Charleyova teta (1970)

Recording of a theatrical production of a comedy by English author Brandon Thomas performed by the ABC Theatre. ...

Julián odpadlík (1970)

In 363, somewhere in Mesopotamia, on a campaign against the Persians, the emperor Julian, who had succeeded Constantine after his victory over Gaul, was going through a personal crisis. He sees that the new philosophical trend, Christianity, is as cruel an ...

Men About Town (1969)

Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague. ...

Bellevue (1969)

Vajíčko (1969)

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 ( ...

Záhořanský hon (1968)

Objížďka (1968)

The inhabitants of a picturesque village proud of its ancient linden tree will be disturbed by a disturbing event - a temporary road diversion is supposed to lead through the village. At first the population protests against the increased traffic, but even ...

The Terribly Sad Princess (1968)

Like a fairy tale, King Henry and King Good-thought decided long ago that their only children should marry and so prevent war arising between their kingdoms ever again. But the young prince is wary of marrying anyone he doesn't know. ...

The End of Summer (1968)

A summer picture of a small village and its inhabitants, where several love relationships intertwine. ...

Úřad (1968)

Bidýlko (1967)

Grandpa, Kylian and I (1967)

The Karpísek married couple, both doctors, are leaving for London for two months on business. They entrust their five-year old son Jozánek to the care of their neighbor, Mrs Pokorná. ...

Death Behind a Curtain (1967)

Members of an organised group smuggling heroin from France to Italy send a new shipment of the drug via Sweden, the GDR and Czechoslovakia. A new ballet is about to premiere at the Fibich Theatre in Prague. However, the situation is complicated by a horrif ...

Dva šlechtici z Verony (1966)

Two friends are living in Verona, Valentino and Proteo. Proteo professes his love to the charming Julia, who, after an initial misunderstanding, reciprocates his feelings. Valentino mocks his infatuation, but not for long. He leaves for Milan, where he fal ...

Velká kapela (1966)

The Murderer Hides His Face (1966)

In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died nearby and a sexual motive was proved in the case of her murder. In the case of the nurse, the motives are not s ...

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 ...

The Phantom of Morrisville (1966)

Inspector Brumpby (Jaroslav Marvan) and the young crime reporter Allan Pinkerton (Vít Olmer) attend wedding of Sir Hannibal Morris (Oldrich Nový) with beautiful Clarence (Kveta Fialová). After the ceremony, Clarence's ex-husband, criminal Manuel Diaz (W ...

Dva tygři (1966)

When a volunteer police helper is too proactive, he causes more confusion than good. The unfortunate man has no idea what the testimony of an unreliable witness can do... ...

Slečny přijdou později (1966)

This forgotten detective story starring Svatopluk Beneš focuses on those ills of the past regime that were allowed to be glossed over - mainly the theft of socialist-owned property and illegal business. Criminals here come across illegal machinations in t ...

90° in the Shade (1965)

In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic problems of his own uncovers serious stock discrepancies. A test of loyalties and a questioning of values conc ...

Třiatřicet stříbrných křepelek (1965)

A psychological study of the life of a woman, a working mother of two young children. The film captures a small slice of her life, just one day, during which the heroine takes stock of what she has experienced so far and what she has succeeded or failed in ...

Šach mat (1964)

A live, semi-documentary TV broadcast investigates why former prisoner Dr. Benet collapsed after defeating world chess champion Mirko Čentovič aboard the ship Victoria. The crew stages a detailed reconstruction of the fateful game on deck, interviews wit ...

A Star Travels South (1964)

The Prague Grand Orchestra travels by train to a music festival in Yugoslavia. Only the singer Sona Klánová missed the departure. In the meantime, she managed to buy a ticket to Belgrade at the air-terminal from Mrs Navrátilová, who couldn't make the t ...

Deváté jméno (1964)

Ancient crimes are once again encroaching on a man who failed during the occupation. So he wants to cover his tracks with another murder... ...

Pršelo jim štěstí (1964)

Office worker Věra has a big day ahead of her, full of preparations, as her wedding to her boyfriend Zdeněk is coming up. During this time, she has had time to think since morning, and even a small action, a look at a photo or a specific word, can revive ...

Three Wishes (1963)

The sad hero of the story, Petr, an ordinary lawyer in a construction company, is crowded into a small apartment in Žižkov with his wife and grandparents, desperately struggling with the lack of money. One day he offers an old man a seat on a crowded tro ...

Zámek pro Barborku (1963)

Twelve graduates of one year of DAMU decide to go to the regional theatre together. During the first season, the enthusiastic collective breaks up and only five remain, determined to continue. ...

Malý Bobeš ve městě (1962)

A loose sequel to the film Little Bobes, it catches up with the title child hero in the town where he and his parents have moved. However, the expectations of a better existence are disrupted by the ever worsening social conditions in the 1930s, and living ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tereza (1961)

Ing. Bernard announces that his wife has not returned from visiting relatives in Berlin. Lieutenant Tereza Machátová, who together with Captain Landa is investigating the matter, puts the facts into connection with the discovery of the drowned woman's bo ...

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 ...

Ledové moře volá (1961)

A group of children from 1930s Prague follow the news about the polar expedition of the Chelyuskin, whose members find themselves stranded on a floating crust after the shipwreck. The rescue operation they had planned eventually turns out to be an aid to t ...

Bílá spona (1961)

Criminals have their hands full: first a shoplifting, soon the murder of a young driver. Do these crimes have anything in common? But the attempt to create a suspenseful story is broken by its unimaginative nature. ...

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. ...

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, ...

Higher Principle (1960)

During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo. ...

Skid (1960)

Spy film about a man with a face lift who gets recruited by western organisations. ...

U nás v Mechově (1960)

A rumour that a large holiday resort is supposedly being built on the banks of the local pond causes confusion among the villagers. ...

Konec cesty (1960)

Josef Lachman, once a security officer, serves twelve years for aiding an SS fugitive's escape. Upon release, he works as a driver on a dam project, hunting buried English pounds Meyer told him about. With miner Rokos's help, he retrieves the cash and hide ...

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 ...

Probuzení (1960)

Delinquent youths wander aimlessly and commit mischief. Few, however, manage to break free from the influence of such a gang. One of the lucky ones is a girl who grew up in an orphanage - already reformed and reformed, she remembers her dark past. ...

The Young Lady from the Riverside (1959)

The young worker Helena Pokorná and her widowed father are employed in the same factory. The father is spending his holidays at home in Prague and is looking forward to work. Helena is to go to the seaside for a rewarding holiday. On a hot July day, the g ...

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 ...

Padělek (1957)

Olga finds her husband Karel Brand, whom she has just divorced, shot dead after returning from the cinema. It appears to be a clear case of suicide, but Lieutenant Dusek of the Public Security Service suspects that it is a murder, which, it is not impossib ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neporažení (1956)

As Nazi troops prepare to occupy the already truncated Czechoslovak Republic, a small military garrison made up of communists defies orders to abandon their post. ...

Po noci den (1956)

A Czech art film set in a modern village. The main character of the film is Karla Tolarová, a worker from a Prague printing house, who arrives for a harvest shift at a unified agricultural cooperative in Běšíčice at a critical time for the cooperative ...

Rudá záře nad Kladnem (1956)

The year is 1918. Toník returns home from the front. In Kladno, where he arrives, things are seething with discontent. The Social Democrats are in government, but nothing has changed. Socialization has not been implemented, there is hunger and food is sti ...

Jan Žižka (1956)

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

Muž v povětří (1956)

Mr. Čap is an inventor who disturbs the peace of the town of Krásnov with his experiments. During his attempts to discover the eternal match, smoke and a stench pour out of the window, accompanied by detonations. Some people are amused by it, others fear ...

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 ...

Dog's Heads (1955)

The history of the rebellion of the brave Chody, led by Jan Sladký Kozina and Matěj Přibek, against the violent tyranny of the foreign nobleman Maximilian Lamminger of Albenreuth. Based on the novel of the same name by Alois Jirásek. ...

Na konci města (1955)

Captain Jirák of the SNB is searching for the perpetrator of the murder of the former owner of an apartment building on the outskirts of town, which took place more than twenty years ago. ...

The Circus Will Be (1954)

A few bus-loads of holidaymakers from the agricultural cooperative on a day trip arrive to see the show at the Slavia Circus. But, they have bad luck. It is Monday, the day on which the employees have their extra day off. ...

Shoesmachine (1954)

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy. ...

Ještě svatba nebyla... (1954)

At the annual festival in Strážnice, long-time rivals - cooperative members from the neighboring municipalities of Dubnice and Bojanova - met. This time, the people of Dubnice are leading both in selling sausages and in the artistic forum. Despite the pr ...

Přicházejí z tmy (1954)

In a South Bohemian village in 1951, the local rich organize acts of sabotage and try to stop the establishment of an agricultural cooperative with threatening letters and arson. A kulak's son even secretly returns from the West to terrorize the village wi ...

Výstraha (1954)

In the last days of the war, American planes bomb a synthetic gasoline plant in the Sudetenland. The workers are then faced with the enormous task of building a new plant on the site of the ruins and starting production. Their efforts are truly bearing fru ...

Plavecký mariáš (1953)

In the past, most of the wood from the mountain forests was transported to the sawmills by river. The rafters were gradually replaced by trucks and railways, but they still remember the days of their glory and the romance of water travel. Two experienced o ...

Anna the Proletarian (1953)

The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I. ...

Temno (1951)

The Counter-Reformation period: Myslivec Machovec is forced by representatives of the Jesuit order to flee his home for his religious beliefs. His teenage children Helenka and Tomáš do not give up the faith and traditions of the Czech Brethren despite th ...

Veliká příležitost (1950)

An optimistic collective drama from the life of the workers on the construction site of the Youth Track. An amnestied prisoner wants to atone for his wrongdoing with an honest strike and reveals the vandal who was going to poison the drinking water cistern ...

Year of the Revolution 1848 (1949)

The Czech revival movement is divided at the end of the first half of the 19th century. While the older generation, such as František Palacký, urges restraint, students lean towards radical positions. A report on the revolutionary events in Paris prompts ...

Dnes o půl jedenácté (1949)

Silent Barricade (1949)

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis. ...

Vzbouření na vsi (1949)

The new era brings with it progress, which must inevitably penetrate even the most remote corners. It has also reached the village of Čirá. The men there have a number of modern machines that make their work in the fields easier, while their wives still ...

Léto (1949)

Případ Z-8 (1949)

The workers at the ironworks are working to fulfill a two-year plan. The spy group takes advantage of the bitterness of a disrespected innovator and tries to extract information from him about a new technology for pressing metal powder. However, their plan ...

Kariéra (1948)

Karel Kubat, the successful director of the Globus printing house, learns on his fiftieth birthday that he has a serious heart condition. The bad news forces him to take stock of his life. In his mind, he returns to key situations that gradually changed hi ...

Warriors of Faith (1947)

After the Battle of Lipany, the remnants of the Hussite troops concentrated under the leadership of Jan Roháč of Dubé at Sion Castle. However, he had no prospects of victory against the soldiers of the Lordship. Sion was conquered, Roháč of Dubé was ...

The Avalanche (1946)

An ambitious and selfish lawyer confesses to the murder of his first wife. Some of the scenes were filmed in the last weeks of the war. ...