Ondřej Soukup

The Feather Fairy - Two Worlds (2023)

Lukáš, Alžbetka's son, takes off into the world looking for happiness and love. His godmother, the celestial Lady Winter, keeps an eye on him. He arrives late in the fairy-tale land that she leads him to. Fear reigns where once cakes grew on trees. The ...

Léta s Jaromírem Hanzlíkem (2023)

The Devil's Mistress (2016)

Salzburg, Germany, 2000. The elderly Czech actress Lída Baarová tells a journalist the tumultuous story of her rise to fame in 1930s Berlin and her passionate relationship with the sinister Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich. ...

Bony a klid 2 (2014)

Unemployed and in search of work, a young man gets roped into a series of shady schemes that unite a former band of money launderers. ...

Čtyřlístek ve službách krále (2013)

A king seeks the help of a charming band of animals to find an enchanted stone before a magician can use it to freeze the entire world. ...

Vana: The Biggest Race Is the Life Itself (2012)

A documentary portrait of a legendary Czech jockey, Josef Vána, reveals his inner world of thoughts. His unique way of life can't be described in words, and this is a first, really original view into his daily life around horses, terrifying accidents, and ...

Intimate Grammar (2010)

"Intimate Grammar" is a sensitive study of an inner journey rich in detailed observation. A dysfunctional family and delayed puberty make life miserable for a pre-adolescent growing up in Jerusalem in the 1960's. The film, an adaptation of David Grossman's ...

Empties (2007)

Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… dramatically. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society. ...

Johanka z Arku (2003)

A musical by Ondřej Soukup and Gabriela Osvaldová, starring Lucie Bílá as Joan of Arc. Based on the legend of the French national heroine, the world-famous musical Joan of Arc was created. It became the biggest event on the Prague musical scene in 2000 ...

Bride with big legs (2002)

This fairy tale, based on an old French legend, takes place in the Middle Ages at the court of King Pepin. The king wants to marry and, on the advice of Duke Akilon, decides to court the Hungarian princess Bertha. Although the princess has a physical flaw� ...

Max, Sally and the Magic Phone (2001)

Max and Sally, the heroes of popular Czech animated series are leaving the TV in order to become a regular boy and girl. ...

Dark Blue World (2001)

Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new leaders and ...

Queen of the Lake (1998)

Prince Victor looks in vain for a swan which was wounded by one of his servants. Instead he discovers a beautiful girl with golden hair who has an arrow in her shoulder. She is dumb and can't explain her origin. He falls immediately for her. The girl quick ...

The Firebird (1997)

The sick King Jorgen worries about the marriage of his daughter Elena. The fairytale-like, dramatic confusion triggers a shimmering golden fire bird with its wondrous song every full moon night - it makes the king heal and brings the "good" prince as husba ...

An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World (1997)

Set over a two-decade period in a tiny Central European village, this drama not only chronicles a couple's tragic star-crossed love, it also serves as a metaphor for the tragedy of lost traditions. After opening in the snowy wilds as two people spectacular ...

Kolya (1996)

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it's not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members. ...

Válka barev (1995)

Young photographer Ondřej's hobby revolves around flying ultralight aircraft. During one such flight, he spots two men at a lonely villa, one of whom is shooting at the other. He manages to photograph the scene, but is spotted in the process. Before he ca ...

Měsíční údolí (1994)

The common denominator of the five stories, preceded by a brief prologue by Artem Benki, is the setting of a giant open-pit mine in the Podkrušnohoří region in northwestern Bohemia and its surroundings, including the dominant feature of the landscape, t ...

Accumulator 1 (1994)

In this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the street) it has a double that's right in the TV set. This double needs energy from the true character to survive. Each time, the real human watches TV, his Doub ...

Big Beat (1993)

A period musical comedy set in a quiet Prague quarter at the end of the fifties. Using the western plot device of the "man from nowhere" a generation gap story unfolds of changing social climate. The action is driven by the character of a young man named B ...

Nudity For Sale (1993)

Shortly after the Velvet Revolution, everyone becomes an entrepreneur. The fields of business vary. Whether they are legal forms or, on the contrary, organized crime. Young student Nancy arrives in Prague for an internship. She has Czech roots, which is wh ...

Con cien cañones por banda (1992)

Requiem for a Maiden (1992)

A fourteen-year-old girl isplaced in an institution for mentally ill instead of a foster-home due to an official mistake. Here she gets a most cruel treatment which is governed by high-handedness of the spineless and perverse nurses. The girl attempts a d ...

Sedm bílých plášťů (1990)

Good Old Cuttlas (1990)

Stick-figure animation makes for a witty genre send-up of the Western. ...

Myší kočičiny (1989)

Cesta na jihozápad (1989)

Based on a Jack London story, this is another attempt at a Western spectacle - after the short story triptych The Canyon of Gold - about a teenage boy who, after his father's death, lives in a gold-mining town. He even witnesses a cruel fight between two c ...

Zvířata ve městě (1989)

The juxtaposition of animals locked in cages in a zoo and people shackled by the confinement of the city has not lost its impact to this day. The amorous enchantment, passing and bonding of the two protagonists, a young conservationist and a paleontologist ...

Pravidla kruhu (1988)

In the second half of the 1980s, so-called critical films began to emerge, but they were afraid to make a sharper statement, moving on the basis of an engaged morality that wanted to improve the existing conditions cosmetically at best. The theme of the se ...

Currency and Peace (1988)

Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exchange his krona for deutschemarks so that he can visit Germany. A local spiv named Robert obliges Martin, but at an unfair exchange rate. When Martin finds ...

Ghosts of the Dormers (1988)

A tale about a young girl whose grandfather has built a garden of horrors. ...

Words, Words (1988)

Two fishermen meet on a quiet riverbank where their idle chatter curdles into rivalry over whose catch will be bigger. ...

Outsider (1987)

Elementary school student Jožka has a great love – horses. He is looking forward to turning this love into a profession. However, he is atoning for his father's criminal activities, he is not accepted into his dream school focused on horse breeding due ...

Inseparable Five (1987)

A funny movie about life and adventures of the five inseparable friends from little town in south Czech republic. ...

Druhý tah pěšcem (1985)

Inspired by the activities of counter-intelligence officers, Jan Prokop plays chess at every opportunity. In addition, he works with his team to uncover a resident network that attempts to recruit domestic experts to work abroad. ...

Hodina před ránem (1983)

Takový talent (1983)

Pražský výběr – Symphony Bizarre (2022)

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

Česká reklama: Úsvit kapitalismu (2019)

Pražský výběr (2016)

ČT Live – Nightwork (2010)

ČT Live – Lucie Bílá (2007)

Přátelé bermudského trojúhelníku (1987)

The idea of mystery unites the three debut stories - the original Bermuda Triangle with its mysterious phenomena has begun to shift and can be traced anywhere in the world, including Czech and Slovak territory. Here, too, unexplained shifts in space and ti ...

Dům Na poříčí (1977)

The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding the great construction disaster in Prague in 1928, in which 46 construction workers died. The disaster thrilled the entire republic at the tim ...