Marta Vančurová

Short Cut (2018)

Eleven years old Jacob does not know his Father. His picture is portrayed and idealized by his Mother and his own phantasy. Jacob is an uncontrollable and slightly asocial guy, who is lacking a male role model. He grows up among females- Mother, stepsister ...

Čerešňový chlapec (2011)

Men in Rut (2009)

The story takes place in the small South Moravian village of Mouřínov, where the road ends. The residents long to become a "transit" village, and since there is a champion deer caller among them, they make a great effort to host the European Championship ...

Písničkář, který nezemřel (2007)

Rána z milosti (2005)

On the night it happened, Aleš Berka was celebrating his 50th birthday. A successful, mature man at the peak of his powers. Congratulations, gifts, a happy mistress, a healthy son. The fact that one of the guests had an accident at an intersection on his ...

Bolero (2004)

Based on real event, Bolero is an excellent story of progressive recovery of a crime. The story surprises all the time, shows new connections, new possibilities, exposes new ideas and facts. It's possible to understand the film on more levels. It describes ...

Cesta peklem (1995)

A dramatic action film about stuntmen who perform the most dangerous stunts in the film world. One day, however, one of them is struck by a family tragedy in which his son dies. The man cannot overcome this tragedy and ends up in a psychiatric ward. Will h ...

Vengeance Is Mine (1995)

A celebrated theatre director's perfect life unravels when his wife's secret lover exposes the hollowness beneath his success, leading to a calm divorce and his isolation in a luxurious but empty villa with his nearly grown daughter. His attempts to fill t ...

Gazdina roba (1994)

Gabriela Preissová wrote her two most famous dramas, Gazdina roba and Její pastorkyňa, when she was not yet thirty. Both were set to music and became famous. The first opera, entitled Eva, was written by J. B. Foerster, and the second by Leoš Janáček ...

Truth and Lie (1992)

Simon, called the Righteous, once saw a beautiful but sad girl behind a frosty window, whom he suddenly fell in love with and set out to search for her to the ends of the earth, where two noble sisters - Truth and Lie - ruled indistinguishable. But how do ...

Dvanáct měsíčků (1992)

"Dear sister, strawberries don't grow in winter!" Marushka begs, but her crying is in vain, neither her stepmother nor Holena shrinks from her and the girl is driven away to the snow-covered mountains where freezing January reigns. Who doesn't know the fai ...

Hodina obrany (1991)

Zachýsek, zvaný Rumělka (1991)

The fairy from the Beautiful Rose gave Zachýsek an unusual gift. Who knows why he was gifted with the talent to appropriate the abilities and merits of other people and thus gain undeserved honors and general sympathy. Was it possible to recognize what Za ...

Jen o rodinných záležitostech (1991)

Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state. ...

Nanairomura (1989)

Conductor Ichiro Nakamura visits Prague and reminisces about his boyhood, his father, and his mother, Fumiko, as well as his evacuation experience with Marije, a Czech woman he loved like a mother. ...

Zlatý copánek (1989)

More than once, the fairy tale fairy, whose parents did not choose her as their child's godmother, felt insulted. The revenge that the fairy Noara prepared for the innocent girl was cruel. Fortunately, her kind godmother, the fairy Jasna, was watching over ...

Prstienky z kukučiny (1989)

Magician (1988)

A narration of episodes from the life of the famous Czech poet, Karel Hynek Mácha. Throughout the film, we witness a deep analysis of Mácha's complex character (his relation to another Czech writer of the time Josef Kajetán Tyl, his unbearable jealousy, ...

Černovláska (1988)

Forbidden Dreams (1987)

Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family to the big city and becomes an enterprising vacuum cleaner salesman. There he embarks on a series of adult ...

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 ...

Cesta kolem mé hlavy (1985)

A new patient enters the psychiatric sanatorium Sluneční dvůr. It is a high school Czech professor Robert Kilian, suffering from depressive neurasthenia, which manifests itself in a morbid indecision. His biggest problem at the moment is that he doesn't ...

Cesta na Borneo (1983)

Putování Jana Amose (1983)

The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the White Mountain disaster. It depicts his encounters with various European personalities of the 17th century - the Queen of Sweden, artists and scientists. It ...

Veľké šťastie (1982)

Spor architekta Zítka (1982)

Sluníčko na houpačce (1981)

Editor Julie and artist Vojta go to a children's home in Sumava to pick up a nine-year-old boy, Matěj Stibor, and bring him to Prague to receive the main prize in a children's drawing competition. Matěj drew a family of three by a swing with the sun shin ...

3× denně kapku rosy (1981)

Kam nikdo nesmí (1979)

Lucie Rýdlová is found dead at a destroyed car after a night accident. The seat position shows that she cannot have been driving, and the dissection proves that she had died about four hours after the accident. It is for sure that a timely medical assist ...

Střepy pro Evu (1979)

This documentary-style story tells the story of an aspiring documentary filmmaker who is preparing a film about the history of glassmaking. He is honestly gathering information, slowly getting closer to an unknown and not always accessible environment, to ...

Pohádka o ebenovém koni (1979)

Rusalka (1978)

Three arias from Antonín Dvořák´s fairytale opera Rusalka turned in to a movie, sung by Gabriela Beňačková (Rusalka), Libuše Márová (Witch), René Tuček (Hunter). ...

Shadows of a Hot Summer (1978)

Ondrej lives on a farm outside a small town with his family. One day a group of men arrive at the family's house and the harmonious life they've led so far changes drastically for the worse. ...

Sázka pro dva (1978)

Melodie bílého klavíru (1978)

Day for My Love (1977)

After their young daughter dies suddenly from a viral infection, Marie and Petr struggle to cope with the silence and emptiness left in their apartment. The couple drifts apart as Marie sinks into deep isolation while Petr attempts to distract himself thro ...

O třech vandrovnících (1976)

V každom počasí (1975)

V každém pokoji žena (1974)

The plethora of heroines living in the makeshift former Women's Homes share one feature - they mostly feel lonely. Some of them got used to this state and resigned, others still believe in a happier future... ...

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 ...

Sen noci svatojánské (1974)

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a charming comedy by W. Shakespeare, well-known from its numerous stage and film adaptations. In the course of one night, the world of real and fairy-tale characters collide, the king Theseus plans a wedding, the capricious kin ...

Lovers in the Year One (1974)

It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. For them this is the year one. One of them, law student Pavel, is more attracted to film than to law. With his eight-millimeter camera, he films everyth ...

Výnosné místo (1973)

Dítě (1973)

Tele se vlka nebojí (1972)

In her ward, a young nurse, Jenka, becomes close to the hospitalized wife of the director of the local steel company, Pšeničky, who is admired by the local women. Mrs. Pšeničková recovers, but continues to suffer from anxiety and the persistent idea t ...

Královna Černá růže (1972)

Takže ahoj (1971)

Those who take too long to choose their life partner usually take too long - so goes the old saying. Even a long indecisive girl, who is looking in vain for someone who would fully impress her, is convinced of its truth... ...

Nevěsta (1970)

The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very young Zdena (Marta Vancurová), too, dreams about a white veil and an entourage of bridesmaids. On her return h ...

They Refused to get on Board (2020)

The short animated film brings to life a real story of the hidden family of Eva Benešová (born 1940) during the 2nd WW in former Czechoslovakia. ...