Stanislav Tříska

Zdivočelá země (1997)

After World War II, fighter pilot Antonín Maděra returns from England to his native village in the Ore Mountains to forget the hardships and horrors of war and to "live, work, and love his neighbors," as he himself says. But Svatý Štěpán, which his f ...

O králi, hvězdáři, kejklíři a třech muzikantech (1996)

The joyful celebrations at the royal festivities are suddenly interrupted by a juggler's attempt to kill King Gregory. The astronomer Petr, who saves the king, is accepted into service for his deed. He teaches the beautiful princess Korunka to read the sta ...

My Mother's Courage (1995)

The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it. ...

Vekslák aneb Staré zlaté časy (1994)

Even a college education does not protect against temptation—the young hero ceases to distinguish between right and wrong, but strangely enough, even his education does not help him to detect the fraud committed against him in time. Michal Najman, a stud ...

The Cave of the Golden Rose 2 (1992)

Fantaghiro and Romualdo are preparing their marriage when the Black Queen disgusted by their deep love captures Fantaghiro's father. Romualdo and his soldiers go on their journey to free him. But the insidious Black Queen transforms herself into Fantaghiro ...

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 ...

Desk For a Million (1991)

A story about two group of neighborhood boys, their rivalry and adventures. ...

Nález (1991)

Freon Spirit (1991)

A group of children are helping a good spirits who are living in a cave near school. ...

Sun, Hay, Erotica (1991)

The local farmers' cooperative organized a trip to Italy, in which the Škopkovci took part. They went there at the invitation of the Italian agricultural cooperative, whose employees are going to visit Hoštice in return. In addition to the sights, the go ...

The Gentle Barbarian (1990)

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s. ...

Divoká svině (1990)

Wild Swine is actually an ironic name for the great search operation of Prague's criminologists, who in a tangle of criminal activity of various kinds were digging around like wild swine before they managed to solve a complicated case. The story takes plac ...

Sun, Hay and a Couple of Slaps (1989)

For a second time this film leads us to the village in South Bohemia. We meet again Konopnik family and Skopek family. Venca Konopnik is marrying Blazena Skopek but there is another woman Milada who is very jealous and she is spreading gossips about Venca ...

Fools and a Girl (1988)

A coming of age drama about a young boy Jirka who lives in Prague. ...

Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker (1987)

Fairy tale about young cobbler Jíra, who had fashioned wings from leather in order to rescue princess Jasnenka from the tower of the royal castle, where her father had closed her to to save her from the evil witch and her daughter Cernava. ...

Forbidden Dreams (1987)

Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family to the big city and becomes an enterprising vacuum cleaner salesman. There he embarks on a series of adult ...

The Octopuses from the Second Floor (1987)

While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a polluted lake two strange friendly sentient octopuses made of strange material that attracts electricity. They take them as pets. ...

The Galoshes of Happiness (1987)

The Slippers of Happiness is another film made by the Slovak Film Production in co-production with West German companies based on classic world fairy tales. After Slovak folk tales [The Greatest Peck in the World, Salt Over Gold] and the works of German fa ...

Inseparable Five (1987)

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

Dobré světlo (1986)

Viktor Průcha, a successful small-town architect, lives well but knows his comfort rests on compromises. When an elderly man—whose granddaughter was hurt at a school Viktor approved beside a busy road—attacks him and then takes his own life, Viktor ab ...

Tísňové volání (1986)

A dramatic patrol car weekend on the streets of Prague's city centre. Lieutenant Josef Kabát and his colleagues drive through the centre of Prague every day in a patrol car. He loves his neighbourhood more than anything and wouldn't trade it for a more co ...

Slaný sníh (1985)

Third Clinch for Tommy (1984)

A detective story set in a youth mountaineering club. One of the members, Ivan Kočička, nicknamed Kocour, single-handedly investigates the mystery of the body of an unknown man, which he discovered in a cave on top of a rock. ...

Sun, Hay, Strawberries (1984)

A Czech agricultural student, Šimon Plánička, arrives at the small South Bohemian town of Hoštice, and joins the local JZD (agricultural co-op) with the intention of trying out his experiment regarding the "Milk yield of cows in regards to a cultured e ...

The Brave Blacksmith (1984)

Young blacksmith Mikeš sets out into the world for an adventure, accompanied by the miller's assistant Matěj and the boy Ondra. On their journey to rescue three enchanted princesses, the young men encounter a mischievous old hag, magic, and traps set by ...

Mrholení (1984)

Stříbrný smrček (1984)

Hrom do kapelníka (1984)

Jankove hračky (1984)

There is a Dragon Behind Humny (1983)

In one royal forest, where coal miner Patočka lives and works, the friendly dragon Mrak settles down. The king's lackeys come across him while hunting and, terrified, go to sell the news to the king. He is currently organizing his daughter Viola's birthda ...

Michal detektivem (1983)

Vánoční stromek (1983)

Lukáš (1982)

A children's film about an internally confused boy who has difficulty forming an emotional relationship with his father, a forest worker. He admires his skill and hard work, but at the same time is troubled by his drunkenness. ...

Daisies for the Lady of the Manor (1981)

Fifteen-year-old Kateřina will once again spend the holidays at the Castle Krabonoš, where her parents are both wardens. She finds it dull because she's got to sit at the castle's ticket office and sell tickets. That is, until the arrival of the new tour ...

Experiment (1981)

Trnové pole (1981)

Děti zítřků (1980)

Čtveráci (1980)

Ze života velkého chlapa (1980)

Indians from Vetrov (1979)

In the frontier village Vetrov boys from the children's home called Indians lead a bitter "war" with the local Símáks. Before a battle the Indians have a meeting in the sandpit with a smoke signaling. The smoke brings to the sandpit a frontier guard Tom� ...

Ženich mezi dveřmi (1979)

Molière (1979)

Dopis do nemocnice (1978)

I Wouldn't Leave Tereza for Any Other Girl (1976)

An animal lover father brings home a cuddlesome female chimp named Tereza from his latest around the world and adopts her as a pet... ...

Strašidelný mlyn (1973)

Humorous adventures of children in the village. ...

Metráček (1972)

The heroine of the story is a teenage Jitka Pažoutová, suffering from her fatness and clumsiness. For her, the real torture is especially the gym classes led by a sympathetic gym teacher, nicknamed Bohoušek by the girls. A change for the better is a dod ...

Boj se stínem (1972)

Klietka plná vtákov (1972)

Kufor plný zlata (1972)

Just Because You're Grown-Up (1970)

Eleven-year old Mísa has the temperament of a proper boy and endless problems with the grown-ups. It is no wonder that he longs to become an adult without further delay. Mísa keeps house together with his father and has various duties. After a failed att ...

The Giraffe in the Window (1968)

Thieves Svarc and Cihák are interrupted in their robbery of a jeweler's store. In order to disappear as quickly as possible, they jump into the nearest car and leave, finding on the way that a little boy named Jirka, son of the car's owner, is with them. ...

Strakatí andělé (1965)

Three stories (Gabriela, Eda and Jana), two of which are dedicated to girls. They share a common motif of disillusionment when the protagonists encounter scorn and disinterest. ...