Miloš Kopecký

The Magic Book (1996)

An evil witch is trying to steal a magic purse possessed by the local ruler. Thanks to Princess Blanka's love, Prince Petr wins out over the witch. ...

Učitel tance (1995)

A special story about love, dance, and immortality takes place in the late 1940s. A young man, dance master Mayer, arrives at a pulmonary sanatorium. His diagnosis is serious—tuberculosis. However, he does not give in to his illness and begins to activel ...

Angelic Eyes (1994)

Charming, witty and smart men represent a fictitious insurance company who soon fall for an innocent-looking young woman smarter than she seems. ...

The Canary Connection (1993)

An interesting attempt at a postmodern crazy comedy with elements of parody. The plot turns on the search for the recipe of a liqueur made by the film's financial backer. ...

La valle di pietra (1992)

In the 18th Century, in Bohemia, a government surveyor meet a priest during a lunch and remained intrigued by him. Years later, in a stony valley, the two men meet again and form a deep friendship. ...

My Pragues Understand Me (1991)

A fictional story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's stay in Prague. The film, in no case, claims any historical facts. It only tries to evoke the spirit of that time by connecting Mozart's music with the architecture of Prague and by pointing up the changes in ...

Labyrinth (1991)

Film makes the creative process visible by letting its narrative flow in the mind of a foreign director who is researching a film about Franz Kafka in Prague. Based on the principle of dreams and free association, segments unfold that deal with the various ...

Devět kapitol ze starého dějepisu (1990)

Utopím si ho sám (1989)

The difference in personalities and lifestyles is the core of Zdeněk Svěrák's hilarious comedy. The story of two elderly gentlemen begins in a hospital, where they are both hospitalized. Former tram driver Havlík discovers that his new acquaintance Cho ...

Dokonalý muž, dokonalá žena aneb Návštěva mladé dámy (1989)

Mistr Kornelius (1988)

An Angel Seduces the Devil (1988)

Once again, you can take a look behind the scenes of the Riviera Chateau on the Prague periphery, where a brothel for the socialites is hidden under the guise of an exclusive nightclub. The story takes place in 1930 and although several years have passed s ...

Stařeček vavříny vídeňské slávy ověnčený aneb Zpronevěra (1988)

Viktor Veliký (1988)

Poslední leč Alfonse Karáska (1987)

Alfons Karásek has an important task ahead of him – to introduce his young protégé, who is still very inexperienced in this field, to the art of seducing girls. ...

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 ...

O nejchytřejší princezně (1987)

The princess had been proclaiming herself to be the smartest of them all for so long that the people in the castle had to believe it. Only the prince who came to court her was able to openly show her that he was not interested in such an uneducated and con ...

The Great Movie Robbery (1987)

The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film industry, to be held at the Prague U Hybernu venue. The protagonists of the piece are comedians Oldrich Kaise ...

Španělská paradentóza (1987)

Klobouk, měšec a láska (1986)

Růžový Hubert (1986)

Eerie things are happening at Chelford Castle at night: Since the murder of Abbot Hubert some 400 years ago, his ghost is said to haunt the abbey on dark nights. Devilish howls can be heard as he wanders through clouds of fog. Sergeant Putler, Scotland Yar ...

Eine zauberhafte Erbschaft (1986)

In 18th century Bohemia, the mercenary troops of a cruel duke roam the countryside. A cap maker who defends himself against injustice is thrown into prison. His ten-year-old son tries to free his father with the help of his friends of the same age and a ma ...

Sny kominíka Sazivce (1986)

Písničky Na zábradlí (1986)

Jak se tančí brumbambule (1985)

Když vy jste taková jiná... (1985)

Extended Time (1985)

The dramatic story of Karel Svozil, an aging professor of art history, tells of love and old age, illness, death and the worries of everyday life with a humorous touch. A diagnosis of a cancerous tumour unexpectedly interferes with the life of the wise and ...

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 ...

Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval (1985)

The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the expensive decorations of the Variety Theatre auditorium (built for the Circus Humberto series). They smiled and ...

Medvěd (1985)

The Secret of an Old Attic (1984)

During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic. ...

The Three Veterans (1984)

It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers. Each of the veterans is given a magic item - one gets magic harp that provides him with servants b ...

Zbohom, sladké driemoty (1984)

A psychological film depicting the professional beginnings of a young architect. As the head of a design studio, his uncompromising attitude arouses hostility and hatred from colleagues and subordinates accustomed to an easy life through patronage and brib ...

Angel in a Devil's Body (1984)

In a chateau near Prague there is a chantry and brothel Riviera, designed for the clientele from the higher circles. Mrs. Gábi Stolařová, called Madame, keeps a close eye on order, but otherwise she runs the place in a family spirit and makes sure that ...

Dům na nebesích (1984)

Bergman a Bergman, detektivní kancelář (1984)

The story of father and son detectives takes place mostly in the dignified surroundings of a concert hall. Who prepared the assassination, timed exactly according to the score of a piece by Joseph Haydn, what fate will befall the famous conductor Castellan ...

Cesta na Borneo (1983)

Síť na bludičku (1983)

Hearty Greetings from the Globe (1983)

​Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue. ...

Románek za tři krejcary (1982)

Christening (1981)

Deputy of cartography enterprise Mr. Ciruvka tries to seduce the colleague's assistant to destabilize his confident in a run for the director's chair. But things can go wrong. ...

The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981)

In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera. He is also an obsessed opera fan, keeps ...

Vdova po dvou mužích (1981)

Mature Wine (1981)

A loose sequel to the 1976 comedy Stormy Wine. The screenwriters and the director recreate on screen a number of characters from the South Moravian town of Pálavice, characterised by their different attitudes and approaches to work and private life. A num ...

Zakázaný výlet (1981)

Based on a real event - the shooting of a group of working-class children on 20 April 1930 in Radotín. Thirteen-year-old Boženka's mother works as a laundress, and Boženka and her two younger siblings are not living on a bed of roses. ...

Panenka (1981)

Five-year-old Anne Sachs was playing with her Treperenda doll in her room when she heard a scream from the next room. Someone had hurt her mother. Unbeknownst to the girl, she had become a witness to a murder. Detective Steve Carella is on the trail of the ...

Aucassin a Nicoletta (1981)

V hlavní roli Oldřich Nový (1980)

Escape Home (1980)

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted. ...

How to Dupe a Lawyer (1980)

Attorney Horic is a specialist for cases connected with motoring. He approaches to his work unconventionally, he does not hesitate to search for evidence right in the terrain and he is willing to take various risks. ...

Už vám není dvacet, paní Bláhová (1980)

Grandle (1980)

Payment in Kind (1980)

In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes to practice in the countryside. His series of odd court cases reveals more about the human condition than a ...

Přehlídka dobré pohody (1980)

Eva Eva (1980)

Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti (1979)

A New Year's Eve television variety show from late 1979. ...

The Divine Emma (1979)

The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return home to Bohemia. ...

I'll Be Good, Old Man! (1979)

To the intolerant and bloody-minded Prague actor Bergner (Milos Kopecký) is the lead in Moliere's Misanthrope which he is studying now as tailor-made. On top of that he is malicious and he advises to the new actress Helenka (Dagmar Havlová) in such a way ...

Vdovcovy intimní večery (1979)

Silvestr 1978 (1978)

A New Year's Eve television variety show from late 1978. ...

Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet (1978)

When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy, the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a ...

Úplně beznadějný případ (1978)

Báječné ženy na létajících strojích (1978)

Hokej je hra (1978)

Silvestr na přání aneb Čí jsou hory Kavčí (1977)

Náš dědek Josef (1977)

Set in a 1950s Moravian wine village, an elderly Josef, guided by his quirky life philosophy and humor, recalls key moments from his past. Across nine seasonal vignettes filled with local folklore and customs, he and his fellow elders remain fully engaged ...

To byla svatba, strýčku (1977)

Alfons is invited by his brother-in-law to his niece's wedding. The uncle arrives in his luxury car. However, the wedding guests ignore his anxious worries about the car and send him here for beer, there for cement. The uncle objects, but the energetic bri ...

Bohoušův syn (1976)

Konvalinka, a notorious betting man, has become the scourge of the establishment. He can turn anything into a bet. During one such bet, when he is not ashamed to take advantage of the manager to win, he is noticed by the owner's brother, Bohus, who is visi ...

We'll Kick Up a Fuss Tomorrow, Darling... (1976)

Mr. Novak tells a lie to his neighbor Mrs. Bartackova that her husband is unfaithful to her and that is how it all started. ...

Svůdnice na šest (1976)

A crazy comedy about what caused a passion for solving crossword puzzles. An insurance company representative writes a report with the Sluks about an accident that happened in their house. Mrs. Slavíková went shopping while her husband was filling a ten- ...

Silvestr na Silvestru (1975)

Tři muži se žralokem (1975)

How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1975)

There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the only w ...

Potulné pohádkové divadlo I. (1975)

Štrnásty v rade (1975)

Egyptologové (1974)

Comedy, 1974 (Czech Republic) : The movie takes place in England. A group of married middle-aged gentlemen have founded a pretense amateur Egyptology society to maintain some degree of freedom from their wives. The elaborate trick gradually escalates into ...

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. ...

Potulné pohádkové divadlo (1974)

Leporelo aneb Patero obrázků z pera Jaroslava Haška (1974)

Kufr čili Silvestrovské kousky Miloše Kopeckého a Františka Filipovského (1973)

Lakomec (1973)

In 1972, Czechoslovak Television recorded a performance by the Vinohrady Theatre, which was very well received. Moliere's comedy The Miser was staged on a turntable, but in period costumes and scenery, without any hint of updating, in a traditional transla ...

Rambling Engelbert (1973)

Rambling Engelbert: 1973 Czechoslovakian T.V. ...

Six Bears and a Clown (1972)

The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town. ...

Svět otevřený náhodám (1972)

An unemployed young man in the second half of the 1930s, he tries various ways of making a living and, under the influence of a group of communist youth, eventually goes to Spain as an inter-brigadista... ...

Straw Hat (1972)

Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats straw hat which ...

Noc labutí (1972)

O Bumbrlíčkovi (1972)

Miláček (1972)

Alfons Karásek v lázních (1971)

Psíčci lorda Carltona (1971)

Lásky Emanuela Přibyla (1971)

Hry lásky šálivé (1971)

Two historical stories about love. In the story "The Arabian Horse", the scheming townsman Messer Francesco Vergellesi is so firmly convinced of his wife's virtue that he does not hesitate to bet her against a rare stallion he has a crush on... The story " ...

Murder in the Excelsior Hotel (1971)

In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates the murder of a wealthy woman, Mrs Matoušová, which threatens the reputation of the eponymous luxury hotel popular with Prague's elite. Even the retired ...

Svatby pana Voka (1971)

Czech nobleman Petr Vok of Rozmberk (Milos Kopecký) is no longer so young, but his amatory adventures continue to arouse the envy of men and the indignation of respectable ladies. In his "female retinue" at the chateau in Bechyne he has twelve comely girl ...

You Are a Widow, Sir (1971)

After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of ...

There Was a Miller on a River (1971)

A picture based on an old folk song tells us a horrifying story about a soldier returning home after twenty years. His parents do not recognize him, they rob and kill him. ...

Jak se dělá televizní soutěž (1971)

Konec draka Kusodrápa (1971)

Trapasy II (1971)

Námluvy komtesy Gladioly aneb Přistání ve skleníku (1970)

A parody of operetta costumes, personas, old familiar situations with old familiar sandboxes and a happy ending. ...

Šest uprchlíků (1970)

A revue grotesque full of humour and surprises, awarded three main prizes at the Montreux Festival. ...

Jak se dělá divadlo (1970)

Trapasy (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 ...

Silvestrovský trapas (1970)

Blázinec v 1. poschodí (1969)

The servant Josef enters the seemingly peaceful household of the psychiatrist Jaroslav and his wife Žofie, a great lover of the theatre. He is supposed to serve the purpose of increasing the prestige of the family, but he is the true source of confusion a ...

I, Mournful God (1969)

Adolf, the irresistible seducer of women, is fond of Janicka, a novice opera singer. The girl, however, prefers famous men and Adolf thus does not have a single chance with her. One day in a hospital, he meets a Greek partisan named Apostolek who impresses ...

Slasti Otce vlasti (1969)

The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the company of his fiancée Blanche (Daniela Kolárová). One day he receives a summons from his father John of Luxembourg (Mi ...

Prague Nights (1969)

A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious blonde. In an abandoned cemetery, she tells him three tales involving black magic and erotic obsession. In "The ...

Učitel a přítel zůstal veřejnosti neznám (1969)

Historie blechatého psa (1969)

Pražská romance (1969)

Křesadlo (1968)

Čirok (1968)

Přísně tajné premiéry (1968)

A crime writer is accused of being too imaginative and his ideas unworkable, but everything changes when an international criminal demands his professional cooperation. The somewhat freaked out and disbelieving hero is also surprised to discover that his o ...

Úřad (1968)

Jindřich IV. (1968)

Pučálkovic Amina (1968)

Na návštěvě u Horníčků (1968)

Sedm žen Alfonse Karáska aneb Když holky berou, já nevím kterou (1967)

Alfons Karásek says goodbye to his wife Růžena at the train station, who is going to the spa. He plans an erotically filled week, full of women and flings. One lover for each day. But right from the start, the intricately constructed itinerary goes awry ...

Deštník (1967)

Já truchlivý bůh (1967)

The main character of this ironic, intimate story about unrequited love is an older man, Adolf, who tells the story of his greatest failure in love. He has fallen in love with a young opera student, Janička, who, however, only has eyes for men who have a ...

Ta naše písnička česká (1967)

The Haszler songs of Prague, so popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, have not aged. They are still sung in pubs and on construction sites, in short, everywhere. They also have their place in the love stories from old Prague, so bea ...

Bidýlko (1967)

When You Have a Holiday Dominique (1967)

Eight-year old Dominique has a name-day. Her parents have a gift for her, but only give it to her in the evening, when everybody has come home from work. Then she darts out, where her girlfriends are already waiting for her. ...

Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower (1967)

Shortish forty-year old Ludvík Podzimek, lute and flute player in a Prague orchestra, is far from being an attractive man. He is nevertheless generally considered a great 'Don Juan'. Women take up with him out of a certain motherly compassion and Ludvík' ...

Zločin a trik II. (1967)

Svatební cesta aneb Ještě ne, Evžene! (1966)

After a night of partying together, the groom-to-be and his friend wake up to find that the wedding is taking place today. The movers are already bringing in new furniture, and on the way to get the bouquet, the groom, who is still slightly drunk, suffers ...

Flám (1966)

A comedy about a charismatic man who lacks the confidence of his surroundings. However, he was not completely satisfied with the original script and invited Jiří Mucha to adapt Otto Zelenka's script, which gave the film the final form of a bitter convers ...

Martin Speaking (1966)

The second installment of children's stories investigator Dr. Martin. ...

The Pipes (1966)

This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped ...

Vražda v ulici de Lourcine (1966)

Sedm koní a vavříny (1966)

Odsouzený z Pinktownu (1965)

The White Lady (1965)

This castle has its own ghost - a mysterious White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula. White lady is good ghost, she can make someone's wishes true. Even if it is a new duct. But a miracle is not the thing ...

Lov na mamuta (1965)

A young man tries to enter the building of the Mammoth Cybernetic Supermachines Research Institute again and again but each time the doorkeeper spots him and kicks him out. The youth finally arrives with all his friends and a huge live bear from the circus ...

Lemonade Joe (1964)

A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade! ...

Napravení Jima Valentina (1964)

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 ...

Revue pro banjo (1964)

Songs about eternal love, American vagabonds, cowboys and desperadoes, with the romance of railways and trains speeding into the distance are recorded as film songs, and so, for example, in the well-known standard Franck and Johnny you will see M. Kopecký ...

Trik aneb Jak dámu okouzlit aneb Jak manžela oblafnout (1964)

Zkáza Jeruzaléma (1964)

A grotesque story from the history of the film business. The owner of a second-rate rental company offers rural cinema operators a novelty - a biblical big screen film that he personally edited from old prints. ...

Kočár nejsvětější svátosti (1963)

Jan Werich, as the Spanish viceroy in Lima, Peru, at the end of the eighteenth century, is not only afflicted with gout but also doubts about the fidelity of his mistress, an actress of the local theatre, with whom he intends to settle his scores very firm ...

The King of Kings (1963)

During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the saved man was also the Taman king; and he has decided to name Lojza, a communist, his royal heir. ...

Melouch (1963)

Dva z onoho světa (1962)

A musical comedy about two indistinguishably similar siblings who love music, but each of them is completely different. Pavel Fořt is a professor of classical music at a pedagogical institute, his brother is a jazz musician and plays music in America. Whe ...

Green Street (1962)

A look at an over-loaded freight train departing from Prague. ...

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. ...

Love Without Words (1962)

1. A taxi driver barely finishes his coffee before a young woman asks for a ride to impress her boyfriend, only to reveal her beau's ramshackle "plan" beside his sleek car. He then smooths over a quarreling couple, helps a frustrated engineer solve his mac ...

Man in Outer Space (1962)

An upholsterer who is preparing a rocket for takeoff accidentally jettisons himself into space and returns to Earth 500 years later with an alien companion who wishes to learn more about the human race. ...

Ceiling (1962)

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly sub ...

Žárlivost (1962)

Klíč (1962)

A silent slapstick with a band of absurd gags. ...

Zhasněte lampióny (1962)

Every Penny Counts (1961)

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

Ztracená revue (1961)

The music and dance revue about the clown and the girl from the poster takes place in the streets of Prague, in the quiet corners of the Old Town, Lesser Town and Hradčany with the famous motifs of the Gothic gargoyles of St. Vitus Cathedral at Prague Cas ...

Tisíc pohledů za kulisy (1961)

A television music band of so-called television songs, later referred to as clips. Their approaches were innovative on a global scale. ...

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 ...

Zpívající pudřenka (1960)

A children's adventure spy film from a time when the radio telephone was science fiction. ...

Caterwauling (1960)

In a rare instance of literary adaptation, Chytilová was inspired by Franz Kafka's writings. Mr. K stashes stolen jewelry away at home and seldom allows his wife to wear it. A nosy neighbour, Mr. B, drops in. A cat observes it all. ...

Zlepšovák (1960)

Sny na neděli (1959)

In the pulmonary sanatorium, patients live out their small fates. But not everyone takes a responsible approach to their illness. For example, a young student falls in love, the lovers even take a secret flight, but the young man's condition deteriorates d ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mezi nebem a zemí (1958)

Working in the city office is a bitter clerk who believes he has only 14 days to live and so he bravely stands up to his bureaucratic director. ...

Puppies (1958)

Explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and freedom of thought. From an early script by Milos Forman. ...

About The People Around The Table (1958)

Miloš Kopecký comments on himself in the roles of restaurant guests who suffer from various social ills. This satirical parade of grotesque human characters, such as the angry man, the alcoholic, the womanizer, and the thief, reminds us to be kind to res ...

O lidech před pultem a za ním II. (1958)

O lidech před pultem a za ním III. (1958)

The Good Soldier Švejk (1957)

Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and ...

Legend of Love (1957)

A spring is hidden in the Iron Mountain but the people of Arzen cannot get to it and they are suffering from thirst. ...

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 ...

Konec jasnovidce (1957)

Private psychic Mathias Scibolini practices his profession properly and to the full satisfaction of his clients. When the integration of the clairvoyants into the municipal enterprise occurs, he continues to divine under his civil name Mathias Scibolini. T ...

O lidech před pultem a za ním I. (1957)

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. ...

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. ...

Přihlašte své televizory (1956)

A defaulter avoids paying his fees, so he tries to install a TV antenna in his room. The rest of his family helps him, but in the end the man loses more than just the TV... And what about you, do you pay your TV fees? ...

Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph (1956)

Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertising slides and a "newspaper", we see "the first part of a sensational, exemplary, parfuss, salon program - a film from the life of school-age children, shot ...

Jan Žižka (1956)

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

The Windy Mountain (1956)

A group of temporary workers arrive at the Czech-German border to conduct geological exploration. However, not all people have pure intentions and a past, and so the group of geologists is threatened by saboteurs who want to blow up an abandoned mine and e ...

Bill, Please (1956)

The director of the company Restaurants and Canteens arrives to attend a screening of a film made in various restaurants. A group of villagers come in to one of the restaurants for their lunch. The two waiters carry on chatting and ignore their customers. ...

Sen (1956)

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. ...

Once Upon a Time, There Was a King... (1955)

A selfish self-centered widowed ruler, barely tolerated by his subjects and called appropriately enough, 'King Myself, First' asks his three daughters to name the measure of their love for him. When one of them says, "more than salt", he banishes her from ...

Trojí setkání (1955)

The Best Man of All (1954)

A Czech satirical comedy set around 1900. The inhabitants of the small town of Pětice are excited by a mysterious package that is to be delivered to the best person in the village. Of course, all members of the town council claim the title of best person. ...

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. ...

Severní přístav (1954)

A spy film about how saboteurs obtain important data about the activities of a key company, while also trying to thwart the plan and undermine work morale. But vigilant security agencies intervene in time and stop their heinous raids. ...

Olověný chléb (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 ...

Stará čínská opera (1954)

Příběh lásky plné (1954)

The Secret of Blood (1953)

A biographical film about a Czech doctor, Dr. Jánský. The athletically inclined medic Jánský successfully completes his studies. He wants to become a surgeon, but finds himself in Professor Kuffner's psychiatric clinic, where, together with his colleag ...

Anna the Proletarian (1953)

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

Kidnapped (1953)

American agents hijack a plane on the Ostrava-Prague route to launch a campaign against the People's Democratic Czechoslovakia. The plane lands in West Germany, but the Americans have an unexpected problem convincing the hijackers to stay in the West. Base ...

Píseň o silnici (1953)

Hoří (1953)

Velké dobrodružství (1952)

A biographical film about the traveler Emil Holub, conceived as an illustrative story of an exceptional man, who, however, encounters the disinterest and rejection of the domestic Czech bourgeoisie. To this is added an international perspective - Holub enc ...

The Proud Princess (1952)

It's very human and nice story about lofty princess (her father is amiable but incapable - unforgettable performance of S. Neumann) and good, nice, kind and well-principled young king (prince) who tries to make tender her calm heart to get married with her ...

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 ...

The Emperor and the Golem (1952)

The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers the legendary Golem, which he believes can protect him and even cure his imaginary illnesses but, when he ...

Posel úsvitu (1951)

A biographical film about a Czech mechanic and designer who was the first in the Czech lands to construct a steam car. ...

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 ...

Distant Journey (1949)

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival. ...

Red Lizard (1949)

Grammar school teacher Bláha hurts himself in pursuit of a red lizard, and is lying unconscious in the lonely house of Santrucek family. The postman, who found Bláha's coat and hat in the water, announces to everyone in town that the professor has drowne ...

Lost in the Suburbs (1949)

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

Až se vrátíš... (1948)

In an unsightly tenement house, the walls of which are as peeling as the souls of the tenants, an old woman waits for her son to return from prison. However, her neighbors believe that she is hiding a large fortune in her tattered suitcase, which she prote ...

Zrcadlo (1948)

Nevíte o bytě? (1947)

A comedy about the post-war housing crisis in Prague, which several young people are struggling with. The young puppeteer Josef lives in a sublet with the singer Šimůnek, who is currently missing. After returning from a trip, Josef discovers that a demob ...

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 ...