Petra Špalková

The End of the World (2024)

An original story told by Uncle Igor, a son of Russian aristocrats, and his nine year old grandson Tonda. A powerful story of complicated times around 1968, a story full of contrasts: Whether it is the relation between what Grandpa's plentiful life entails ...

Buko (2022)

After losing her husband, Jarmila finds herself at a crossroads in her life, where she must decide whether to patiently "wait out" the rest of her life or rebel and throw herself into an adventure with an uncertain outcome. Despite the well-meaning advice ...

Shadow Country (2020)

The film chronicles the events of a village on the Czech-Austrian border from the 1930s to 1950s, where genocide occurred due to fallout between German citizens and Czechs who collaborated with the Nazi regime during the war. ...

Wings of Steel (2018)

They returned home to Czechoslovakia, believing that the long-awaited peace would come. However, history decided otherwise. Over two and a half thousand pilots served in the uniforms of the British Royal Air Force. Heroes to the British, who helped decide ...

Infiltration: Fake business with health - new facts (2018)

Charlatans or therapists offering alternative treatment? New Facts about Akvap's Prague Consultation and Therapy Institute in the current document by Šárka Maixnerová. ...

Short Cut (2018)

Eleven years old Jacob does not know his Father. His picture is portrayed and idealized by his Mother and his own phantasy. Jacob is an uncontrollable and slightly asocial guy, who is lacking a male role model. He grows up among females- Mother, stepsister ...

Pepa (2018)

Pepa is a fifty-year-old civil servant living with his family in an ordinary district town. Pepa is somewhat henpecked, lacking respect even from his wife, let alone his daughter. Pepa knows that something has to change, and he even knows very well what th ...

Barefoot (2017)

Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He needs to make new friends and get used to a new life which is immensely different from what this city boy was ...

Ice Mother (2017)

After her husband's death, Hana lives on alone in the family villa. Her two sons visit her with their families, but these visits frequently end in quarrels. When Hana meets Brona, a hardy fellow, inured to winter swimming, a new world opens before her. Bro ...

The Good Plumber (2016)

The story is about a plumber, who is called Good man from the bones. He is not afraid of any work, he manages all the work he gets. Wittily responds to every situation that befalls him. ...

Případ pro lyžaře (2016)

Commissioner Vašátko meets painter Horác while on vacation at a mountain cabin. A diverse group of guests has gathered here, ruled over by the aggressive and arrogant director Skorkovský, who humiliates and abuses his son with nonsensical orders. Horá ...

The American Letters (2015)

Bio-pic about Czech composer Antonin Dvoraák at the height of his career. Dvorák learns that his love and lifelong muse is ill and must return to her side. ...

Jako nikdy (2013)

The end of summer in the film also means the end of life. Vladimír Holas dies. Who is Vladimír Holas? Painter, sculptor and teacher of district importance. He painted many beautiful pictures - but not as great as he wished. He wasn't in the party, he was ...

Můj vysvlečenej deník (2012)

Johana navigates the ups and downs of teenage life alongside her tight-knit group of friends, each wrestling with their own first loves, family dramas, and identity crises, while her own world is turned upside down when she discovers an old letter hinting ...

Nespavost (2009)

A bitter comedy about how difficult it can be to forgive parents for their concern, reproaches, or unfulfilled expectations was filmed in Ostrava by Czech Television director Lenka Wimmerová. We can guess what lies behind it this time too – is it the em ...

Marta (2006)

A film about the lives of three people. Marek lives out in the mountains with his father who is a person with a certain disability. Apart from his father Marek never interacts with any other people. The pair survive by poaching animals. Marek's father trad ...

Vřesový trůn (2006)

This almost detective-like fairy tale tells the story of an overly anxious nanny who, fearing the wrath of the lady of the castle, searches so relentlessly for a missing trinket that she finds herself in real danger. Armed with advice from the sorceress Fa ...

The City of the Sun (2005)

Four friends, Karel, Milan, Tomáš, and Vinco, lose their jobs in Ostrava's working-class districts and, with their livelihoods gone, struggle to redefine themselves. They launch various business ventures but lack experience, leading to repeated failures. ...

Lovers & Murderers (2004)

Lovers & Murderers is about the ongoing war between those who have and those who want to have what the others have. The have-nots see themselves as poor victims trying to get for themselves what is justly theirs. But when the have-nots become haves, th ...

Pánská jízda (2004)

Father Viktor, highly capable and successful in his profession, and his son Petr, an equally successful and promising student, suddenly find themselves in an unexpected situation – after the death of their wife and mother, these two exemplary models of t ...

Brats (2002)

Film about racial problems in the society, love, family, people and their relations. ...

Autumn Spring (2001)

A bittersweet comedy starring the great Vlastimil Brodský as Fanda, an old man who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated wife who wants him to make serious decisions about the future, Fanda ignores the nagging and spends his days seeking ...

At Night (2001)

A sentimental story of a shy dreamer waiting in Prague at night for the girl of his dreams. ...

Whisper (1996)

Anna, a 16 year-old girl from the sticks, trades her military education for life in the big city Running away to Prague opens a whole new world where she drinks her first cappuccino and meets the kind of people she has only seen in movies. ...

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. ...

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 ...

Pražákům, těm je hej (1991)

The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr (Prague's selection) has just received the news thier 5-year ban has expired and they are alowed to perform once again. This half fant ...

Tichý společník (1989)

A smaller town has its own newspaper. The editor, Stanek, works there and is concerned with status and a comfortable life. His teenage son has his own problems and doesn't understand his father's attitude. Conventional morality without real critical passio ...

Šašek a královna (1985)