Michael Kocáb

Svatá (2024)

Olga, a spirited 90-year-old gulag survivor, lives with her daughter Hana in a modest, aging home, their relationship marked by unspoken scars from the past. As Olga gains attention through her memoirs and public talks about her wartime ordeal, investigati ...

Hledači pevného bodu (2024)

For twelve years, a film crew has been following the lives of four people who appeared in public in November 1989. Musician Michael Kocáb, dissident Jan Ruml, young participant in the National Avenue intervention Kryštof Rímský, and student leader Mart ...

Havel Speaking, Can You Hear Me? (2024)

This time-lapse documentary follows the last years of former President Václav Havel's life, creating a multi-layered portrait of a world-famous political icon and important playwright, but also an ordinary man plagued by health problems. Havel allows the ...

Andy Warhol - The American Dream (2023)

Andy Warhol's answer to the question of where he comes from is well known: "From nowhere". His parents emigrated to the USA during the monarchy and thus entered a period of great migration from the territory of today's Slovakia. and reveals the life of man ...

Pražský výběr – Symphony Bizarre (2022)

Artistic rendering of a major concert by Pražský výběr at the O2 Arena with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. ...

Edible Water Bottles (2020)

What if, in one possible version of the future, the scarce commodity was not only material objects, but also water? The film outlines a situation where water becomes a luxury commodity, and gradually awakens our fear of its possible scarcity in the near fu ...

Sugar and Salt (2019)

Like every year, a group of friends arrives at a remote and secluded place to "celebrate their friendship". This is the 36th time now, but this year is going to be different. Stana has lost his battle with cancer and for the first time ever there are only ...

King of Thieves (2003)

Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West. ...

Small Town (2003)

Produced by Czech television, Mestecko (Small Town) is the directorial debut of theatrical veteran Jan Kraus. This episodic comedy is set in the small town of Mestecko (which literally translates to "small town") right before the Velvet Revolution of 1989. ...

Pražákům, těm je hej (1991)

The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr (Prague's selection) has just received the news thier 5-year ban has expired and they are alowed to perform once again. This half fant ...

The Magpie in the Wisp (1991)

In the film, the creative forces of personalities from three spheres of art collide. The subtitle "The Game of Love and Hate" refers to the motivation of an old Czech medieval satire, the theme belongs to Antonín Přidal, an expert on this subject. His co ...

Nine Circles of Hell (1988)

As the Khmer Rouge carves a path of death throughout the land, a Czech doctor falls in love with a Cambodian woman. Their relationship, though sorely strained by the war's horrors, produces a child. The doctor is separated from his family once Pol Pot assu ...

Fair Play (1987)

Tereza lives and works in Prague. She meets a handsome man, Tommie, speaking in a language incomprehensible to her. It seems that he is the manager of the Finnish ice hockey team. A love story starts to blossom. When the coach of the Czech ice hockey team ...

Můj hříšný muž (1987)

A Czech film about love and marital crisis as a work injury. ...

Wolf's Hole (1987)

Eleven disparate adolescents, gathered for a skiing camp at an isolated winter resort, find themselves preyed upon and set against one another by their three mysterious instructors. ...

The Galoshes of Happiness (1987)

The Slippers of Happiness is another film made by the Slovak Film Production in co-production with West German companies based on classic world fairy tales. After Slovak folk tales [The Greatest Peck in the World, Salt Over Gold] and the works of German fa ...

The Last Theft (1987)

A man breaks into a large, seemingly abandoned old house to plunder the gold received. But the house is really abandoned? ...

The Pied Piper (1986)

A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, inn ...

Caught by Night (1986)

A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp. ...

Hledám dům holubí (1986)

A boyish dispute over drums full of scared pigeons. ...

Do You Know Where Herr Kisch Is? (1985)

The "Raging Reporter" Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948) was one of the most significant journalists of the 1920s and 30s. He wrote from a communist point of view, in language that sparkled with humor. Historic photographs and footage describe Kisch's eventful j ...

Prague – The Restless Heart of Europe (1985)

This distinctive documentary portrait of Prague extolls the beauty, significance and spirit of the ancient city adopting modern way of life. The form and content of the film share a common underlining principle. The author doesn't simply list out the seque ...

Sweet Troubles (1984)

A comedy about Simon, an honest, clever confectioner. In practical life, the humble bachelor becomes an easy prey to his boss, his mother, and hordes of women eager to get married. The story incorporates well-tested methods of nearly all major periods in t ...

Lady Poverty (1984)

A tragicomic story about Lady Poverty who, unmistakably and without any hesitation, catches one lazy fellow after another. However, she is helpless when she comes across a diligent and work-loving fellow. Poverty simply cannot be destroyed, but it can be d ...

Prodavač humoru (1984)

The honest and a bit naive director of a variety agency, Jožin Petránek, sits on the qualification committee that judges entertainers and performers of all kinds. The man firmly rejects any favouritism. But at work and at home, he's in for nothing but tr ...

Raspberry Coctail (1983)

Story of a high-schooler who fails to gain a place at university and necessarily finds herself having to take a job behind the counter at a buffet. ...

Hledači pevného bodu (2024)

For twelve years, a film crew has been following the lives of four people who appeared in public in November 1989. Musician Michael Kocáb, dissident Jan Ruml, young participant in the National Avenue intervention Kryštof Rímský, and student leader Mart ...

Zánik Československa v parlamentu (2024)

MICHAEL KOCÁB - ROCKER VS. POLITICIAN (2022)

The title of this documentary about Michael Kocáb alone suggests that art and politics will collide onscreen. Although this cinematic portrayal focuses primarily on the artistic pursuits of the protagonist — who reminisces with slight improvisation his ...

Pražský výběr – Symphony Bizarre (2022)

Artistic rendering of a major concert by Pražský výběr at the O2 Arena with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. ...

Rolling Stones – Hearts for Prague (2018)

Pražský výběr (2016)

Zuzana Michnová – Jsem slavná tak akorát (2013)

ČT Live – Oskar Petr 60 (2012)

Michal Pavlíček & Friends: Best of Klobouček 1995-2004 (2005)

ČT Live – Pražský výběr (2005)

Vaclav Havel, ein böhmisches Märchen (1993)

New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood (1992)

From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and many-layered film-argument about Czechoslovak democracy in the period of its rebirth, all administered with the director's ini­mitable ...

Pražákům, těm je hej (1991)

The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr (Prague's selection) has just received the news thier 5-year ban has expired and they are alowed to perform once again. This half fant ...

The Magpie in the Wisp (1991)

In the film, the creative forces of personalities from three spheres of art collide. The subtitle "The Game of Love and Hate" refers to the motivation of an old Czech medieval satire, the theme belongs to Antonín Přidal, an expert on this subject. His co ...

Martha and I (1990)

Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who ...

The Galoshes of Happiness (1987)

The Slippers of Happiness is another film made by the Slovak Film Production in co-production with West German companies based on classic world fairy tales. After Slovak folk tales [The Greatest Peck in the World, Salt Over Gold] and the works of German fa ...