Petr Ostrouchov

Dear Ones (2023)

Dear Ones is an allegorical story about people who need to make real contact with their family and friends. Piotr is looking for a purpose and order in his life. To find it, he turns to magic, religion, and psychology. Unexpectedly, his father calls him an ...

Pastýřka a kominíček (2020)

Heaven's Gate: Amerikánka (2020)

What can keep you alive when the whole world is against you and you're still a child? Not much. Ema Černá, the heroine of a story inspired by real events, overcomes the hardships of a children's home, foster care, and juvenile detention on her journey. T ...

Garden Store: Suitor (2017)

In late-1950s Czechoslovakia, a young couple's new love is tested by their parents' expectations and the toll of the Communist regime. ...

Garden Store - Part 2: Deserter (2017)

In 1940s Prague, a former Nazi prisoner returns to run his posh hair salon and struggles with family, the rise of communism and his past. ...

Garden Store - Part 1: Family Friend (2017)

Sisters whose husbands were arrested by the Gestapo struggle to get by with their children during WWII, while one grows close to a selfless doctor. ...

Red Captain (2016)

Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall; six months before the split of Czechoslovakia. Despite all warnings, a young homicide detective sets on investigating a convoluted case that involves Catholic clerical elite and high-ranked agents of the forme ...

The Red Spider (2015)

Karol, an ordinary young man, runs into a much older man, whom he believes to be a Red Spider, the terrifying serial killer, prowling the streets of Cracow in 1960s. Karol becomes obsessed with the man and spies on him. ...

Clownwise (2013)

Once a hugely popular clown trio, Oskar, Max, and Viktor are now living very different lives. The intense fight that ended their friendship has left them on bad terms for over 40 years. Max is battling colon cancer, Viktor's wife is losing a battle to Alzh ...

Vendeta (2011)

In a deserted clearing, a forest ranger finds the lifeless body of a man. He manages to revive him, but the man remembers nothing. He doesn't know how he got into the forest or why he is covered in blood, and instead of answering questions, he runs away. T ...

Identity Card (2010)

Bittersweet comedy about four teenage boys, their friends, parents, lovers - from the moment when they are 15 to moment when they are 18. Story is set in 1970s, when is Czechoslovakia occupied by Russians. ...

Forgotten Transports to Poland (2009)

Forgotten Transports to Poland is a documentary by Lukáš Přibyl, part of a series that explores lesser-known Holocaust deportations. This film focuses on Jewish deportees sent to little-known camps in eastern Poland during World War II. It highlights th ...

Forgotten Transports to Estonia (2008)

Forgotten Transports to Belarus (2008)

Belarus between 1941 and 1944 was an apocalyptic place with nights lit by flames from hundreds of torched villages and with soil soaked in the blood of countless victims. ...

Forgotten Transports to Latvia (2007)

In January of 1942, two first transports with hundreds of Czech Jews leave Theresienstadt for the east. After a journey lasting several days, the trains reach the Latvian capital of Riga. ...

Zelary (2003)

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 15 ...

The Devil Knows Why (2003)

A good king rules this land, but still things are going from bad to worse. The point is that the greedy Minister of State has an interesting pact with the Devil — for bringing the kingdom into a state of dire poverty and the king to hell, he himself woul ...

Frames (2001)

Vinyl (2023)

Heaven's Gate: Amerikánka (2020)

What can keep you alive when the whole world is against you and you're still a child? Not much. Ema Černá, the heroine of a story inspired by real events, overcomes the hardships of a children's home, foster care, and juvenile detention on her journey. T ...

11 Colours of the Bird (2020)

A behind-the-scenes look at the eleven-year process it took to make The Painted Bird. The narratives of director Václav Marhoul and actor Petr Kotlár weave their way through the various stages of the film's creation, offering their subjective views from ...

The Painted Bird (2019)

After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II. ...

Garden Store - Part 2: Deserter (2017)

In 1940s Prague, a former Nazi prisoner returns to run his posh hair salon and struggles with family, the rise of communism and his past. ...

Babylon (2003)

The ancient biblical story of the construction and fall of the Tower of Babel, tragic fates, intolerance, but also the search for love and hope in a television recording of a musical by the Brno City Theater. ...