Nelly Gaierová

Too Loud A Solitude (1995)

An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric scenarios of wit. ...

Test of Memory (1993)

Fifteen years after being the cause of an alleged love suicide there, writer Paul Herzog returns to Prague where he meets Clarissa, the sister of the deceased woman. When a couple of mysterious deaths occur amongst people who were close to Clarissa and her ...

The Vampire Wedding (1993)

Young English gentleman Richard travels with his uncle Archibald to Prague, Czech kingdom. There he meets a beautiful girl Olivia, a young noblewoman with a secret. They fall in love with each other but he doesn't know Olivia is a companion of evil count K ...

Zamilovaná (1993)

A young and sympathetic teacher joins the music school. He leads the school orchestra and also teaches twelve-year-old Anezka to play the cello. The girl falls in love with him and only her grandmother, who lives alone and does not get along with Anezka's ...

Prague (1992)

Alexander is a young, emotionally-repressed Scot who, upset by his Czechoslovakian mother's death, journeys to Prague to scatter her ashes and track down a piece of film that contains the only existing footage of his family. ...

A Rosy Story (1990)

After her mother had passed, Darinka lives with her grandma. In her fantasy she lives her own version of Sleeping Beauty. Her musical talent helps her to cope with illness and fulfill her dreams. ...

The Jester and the Queen (1988)

The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation - a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his French wife, or a modern Czech villager helps a Bavarian hunter and his French wife find wild boar in Bohemia - the story switches back and forth ...

Narozeniny režiséra Z. K. (1988)

A directors autobiography about his debut during the rise of socialism. ...

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 ...

Hubert the Smart Boy (1985)

Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like every likable rogue, he has a worthy adversary - Police Inspector Mourek, who has long been trying in vain to put him behind bars. ...

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 ...

Šílený kankán (1983)

During the First World War, the crooks Scholef and Krumka sell weapons on the black market. After the collapse of the monarchy they try their hand at speculation on a grand scale. ...

Ples v opeře (1983)

Muzikál pro Nelly Gaierovou (1983)

Velký případ malého detektiva a policejního psa Kykýna (1982)

Konečná stanice (1982)

The story takes place in a retirement home and creates a mosaic of the lives of old people who are trying to find a relationship with themselves and with life in these specific conditions. Each of its residents has a distinctive approach to life and its ba ...

A na konci je začátek (1981)

V hlavní roli Oldřich Nový (1980)

Orfeus v podsvětí (1980)

Švec Janek v pohádkové zemi (1979)

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 ...

O líném Honzovi (1977)

Nezbedná pohádka (1977)

When you hear the word "Naughty Fairy Tale", you will undoubtedly think that it could not have been invented by anyone other than Josef Lada, a master of turning fairy tales inside out. And that's true. No brave prince, but Princess Máňa will free the in ...

Ivanka a Marijka (1976)

Čas lásky a naděje (1976)

A colour-printed melodramatic selanca from the beginnings of the organised labour movement in Bohemia... Antonín Zápotocký, the second workers' president, is the author of the literary novel Rozbřesk - the plot is said to be inspired by the fate of his ...

The Day That Shook the World (1975)

An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914. ...

Jak se Honza učil bát (1974)

Honza is a clever young man and a strong man who is not afraid of anything. Despite this, he cannot find friends in his village, and even the girls are just laughing at him. That is why he prefers to go out into the world to try his luck. He is not scared ...

Z pohádky do pohádky (1973)

The story of Goldilocks, Sleeping Beauty, Krejcik in an enchanted castle and the skirmishes of the animals with the robbers of Petrov. ...

Vinobraní (1972)

Taškařice v atelieru (1971)

Hvězda (1969)

Who wouldn't want to return to the limelight? Years ago, actress Slávka Hradilová was a movie star. Today, she is approaching 60 and the most she does is appear in commercials. But she still keeps in shape. She regularly meets with friends to help them s ...

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 ...

Půjčovna talentů (1964)

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 ...

Hlavní výhra (1959)

A comedy about a young salesman Havelka, who gets his life's wish. He wins his dream car Spartacus in a lottery. So together with his fiancée, they experience a happiness they have never known before and have no idea that their dream car will complicate t ...

What Will My Wife Say to This? (1958)

The hero of the story is the writer Vladimír Tůma, who is invited to spend a month studying in a neighbouring country. There, the foreign office assigns him a guide, Irena Stepowska. The two young people are attracted to each other, but there is a catch ...

An Easy Life (1957)

Depiction of Czech students in the 1950s. The kids are less interested in communism than in rock n' roll. Czech authorities deemed the work decadent and subversive, which led to the director being kicked out of film school. ...

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. ...

Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka – Švejkova budějovická anabase (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 ...

Slovo dělá ženu (1953)

Innovator Ludvík Zach is in love with his technical data and improvement proposals and does not believe that women could be able to understand these problems. However, on his way back from a conference, he meets Jarmila, an electromechanic, and arranges a ...

Anna the Proletarian (1953)

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

Vstanou noví bojovníci (1951)

The leader of the emerging organized labor movement in the 1880s, Ladislav Zápotocký-Budečský, is exiled to his native village, where he works as a tailor and continues to raise social awareness among members of the working class. ...

The Last Shot (1950)

A drama set in the Vítkovice Ironworks at the end of the occupation. It depicts the struggle of Ostrava steelworkers to save the blast furnaces, which the retreating Nazis want to blow up. ...

Křížová trojka (1949)

An attempted theft of a rare antique is uncovered at a castle that houses an apprentice recreation center. The apprentices help uncover the real perpetrators and their accomplices. ...

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 ...

Parohy (1947)

Oldřich Nový was and will forever remain the embodiment of charm, elegance and personal charm for Czech cinema, to which all women, regardless of age, were subject. In his unforgettable lover roles, he was not only a romantic who was able to fall in love ...

The House of the Five Squirrels (1944)

Josef Houbička, the owner of the U pěti veverek apartment building in Malostran, is a kind and forgiving good man who allows himself to be ruthlessly oppressed by his proud wife, Filoména, and secretly fixes her problems with the tenants. He lends rent ...

Happy Journey (1943)

Filmed during the Nazi occupation, this panoramic drama set in a Prague department store follows the divergent destinies of four female coworkers, each of whom seeks happiness in a different way. ...

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... ...

Její hřích (1939)

Lola Holm, a medical student, is studying for her final exams. She rejects the courtship of psychiatrist Associate Professor Linn. Bank cashier Goll lives extravagantly and his salary is not enough for his excesses. He is in need and has mental problems. H ...

Klub tří (1935)