Pavel Batěk

The Compatriot (2024)

On New Year's Eve in 1944, two men meet in the middle of a snowstorm in a cottage cut off from civilization - a widower, Petr Bernat, and an SS officer, Konrad Neumann. The only thing the two men have in common is their Sudeten origins. At first, their con ...

The Gardener's Year (2024)

A devoted gardener and his wife live peacefully at the foot of a hill, tending their nursery according to nature's rhythms. When a new castle owner seeks to transform the entire estate and demands they sell their garden business, the couple refuses. ...

Maria Theresa’s Dark Side (2024)

Shortly before Christmas 1744, Vienna, the center of power in the Habsburg Empire, is the scene of a disastrous drama with repercussions for the whole of Europe. Against the spirit of enlightenment and tolerance, the very young Maria Theresa orders the exp ...

Big Dreams (2023)

Inspired by Czech Republic's 1998 Olympic win, 11-year-old Dom forms a hockey team with friends to pursue their dreams against all the odds. ...

One F*cking Wish (2022)

Disabled Petr, living with an overprotective father, wants to prove his masculinity by meeting a girl from the internet. ...

Eyewitness (2021)

"A documentary anatomy of mass murder for one monitor and 34 talking heads." These are the words the filmmakers use in the credits to describe their project, which thematises the execution of more than 260 Carpathian Germans, Hungarians and Slovaks by Czec ...

Martin Fruwein osmadvacátý odsouzený (2021)

Old-Timers (2019)

Vlasta and Tonda don't have much longer to live but they do have one more important task ahead of them - to find and kill the communist prosecutor who sent them to prison in the 1950s. An unusual road movie about two former political prisoners who fight fo ...

All or Nothing (2017)

Linda and Vanda, two good-looking women in their thirties, are inseparable friends and co-owners of a small bookstore in the city center. Linda is divorced, educated and practical, has a little daughter and a sense of responsibility. Vanda, on the contrary ...

Mordkommission Berlin 1 (2015)

Berlin in the 1920s is a vibrant metropolis. After the horrors of the First World War, people seek their fortune at parties, in glittering variety theaters and dance halls. So-called "ring clubs" dominate the world of crime. When Inspector Paul Lang finds ...

All My Tomorrows (2014)

This romantic comedy, shot in a road-movie style, tells the story of businessman Petr Kraus and his personal transformation. After returning from China, where he supervised the production of clothing for his customers, Petr finds out that the manufacturer ...

Stín smrtihlava (2012)

A loose continuation of the cases of our murder squad in the films Škodná and Hrobník. The new film not only deals with the murder of a psychologist, reminiscent in some respects of a deviant crime with bizarre ritual elements. We also follow the fate o ...

10 způsobů lásky (2008)

The fates of ten characters are swept up in a whirlwind of love. It is a short film: ten episodes – ten variations on love. The protagonists are people from the contemporary upper middle class – those who have managed to earn some money or have acquire ...

Swingtime (2007)

The story is based on Operation Stone, during which State Security agents deliberately misled citizens of the Czechoslovak Republic who were attempting to leave the country illegally by creating fake borders and fake border patrols and interrogation teams ...