Vítězslav Jandák

The Third Wish (2017)

Kindly, mischievous and humorous story about the troubles of a lovesick teenager called Albert. ...

Coal Tower (2002)

Jakub, a young, small time drug dealer, wakes up to find the police storming the apartment building while his parents are both away on holiday. After flushing all of his "secret stashes" in the toilet, he finds out they are actually there to investigate t ...

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. ...

Devilish Luck 2 (2001)

Markéta and Honza are a loving and beloved royal couple. The cunning princess Eufrozína beguiles Lucifer with her charm and, with the help of seven-league boots, flees from hell with her father to reunite with King Brambas and deprive Honza of his throne ...

The Conception of My Younger Brother (2000)

Director's memoirs of his childhood in a lively tenement house, in particular one hot summer day in 1949 when all tenants gathered to celebrate the wedding of the landlord's daughter. Small details slowly reveal that the narrator's recollection of the even ...

Helluva Good Luck (1999)

Dora, a lazy and evil woman, is in love with her servant, Hannes. Hannes, however, loves her sister-in-law, Margareta. When Dora learns about this, she vows revenge against the couple. ...

Konto separato (1997)

This production of Ostrava TV Studios was inspired by actual events which occurred in the Ostrava region of Moravia during the 1920s and 1930s. A hedonistic bon vivant of a lawyer named Zajícek (played by Václav Postránecký) came up with a sophisticate ...

Divoké pivo (1995)

A classic Czech comedy about the privatization of a small South Bohemian brewery. In a series of comical situations, good Czech police officers encounter the mafia, and honest citizens encounter swindlers. This amusing story, which of course includes a rom ...

Kačenka a zase ta strašidla (1993)

This time, the eight-year-old girl must fight to keep her parents from turning the House of Horrors, which she received as a gift from her grandfather, the Viennese Czech Swoboda, into a family villa. Helping her are her old friends, with the help of a mag ...

Kačenka a strašidla (1993)

Jindrich Polák's modern fairy tale comedy tells the story of a girl who unexpectedly inherits a fairground amusement - a haunted house from Vienna's Prater fun park. With the help of a magic timepiece she is able to bring three of the ghosts to life. ...

Silvestrovská překvapení (1992)

The Frog Prince (1991)

When a young princess, instead of being fully dedicated to her love, persists in running around like a tomboy and roaming the forests with her gang, and a young prince refuses to give up all his vices and mischief, an aquaphobic fairy takes their fate into ...

Nález (1991)

Tichá bolest (1991)

A young man has led his whole life with his grandfather. When he was in school, he was the only one who was refused to join the Youth Brigade, since his father was sentenced to death for spying. When it is time for him to do the compulsory military service ...

The Tank Battalion (1991)

The lacking attitude of a conscripted university graduate places him at odds with the power and doctrine of his military superiors. His secret relationship with the wife of a superior officer along with the low discipline of his fellow conscripts only heig ...

Byli jsme to my? (1991)

The theatre director encounters the disinterest and irresponsibility of the acting troupe, whose members are scheming and looking for side income. The tired and sick artist wants to finish his work at any cost. ...

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 ...

Skřivánčí ticho (1990)

The hero of the story is a forty-something intellectual, a sensitive composer of classical music. His exclusive profession, his work, which is actually incomprehensible to those around him, and his deep inner passion set him apart from the conformist milie ...

Poslední zastávka smrt (1990)

Jízda králů (1990)

Lovec senzací (1989)

Journalist E. E. Kisch tells crime stories from old Prague, which he himself experienced in the years before World War I and recorded in his reports and stories: he participated in the discovery of the real murderer of a rich innkeeper, attended the weddin ...

Případ medvědí jeskyně (1989)

Jiří Bartoška, ​​in the role of police captain Hála, investigates the smuggling of hard drugs through a protected area in South Moravia. How does the military unit deployed in the border area and the strange behavior of animals around a nearby bear ...

Horká kaše (1989)

In the 1980s, a number of films were made about teenagers. At first they dealt with the confusing search for life orientation, the difficult entry into adult life - and gradually the interest shifted to delinquent youth. This film charts the conditions in ...

Úraz (1989)

A young woman named Alena discovers her fiancé Pavel's repeated infidelity. After meeting with her former married boyfriend, she loses control of her car and crashes. The result is tragic: severe injuries to her head, spinal cord, and spine. Even after se ...

Přízrak (1988)

A thrilling detective story based on a short story by writer Hana Prošková takes place shortly after the war in a castle, where a group of students work part-time to re-register the archive. During long evenings, they sit together and invent a fictional ...

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 ...

Who's That Soldier? (1988)

In the Czech film comedy from 1988, you can see for yourself that the war was not easy, but otherwise it was great fun. Sergeant Kouba serving with the paratroopers has a soft spot for women. His superior does not like him. However, during a military exerc ...

Paní Liška (1988)

Střecha nad hlavou (1987)

Černá punčocha (1987)

An elderly tailor strangles young women with a black stocking. Inspired by a true crime. ...

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 ...

Jsou určité hranice (1987)

Není sirotek jako sirotek (1987)

Young Wine (1986)

Third wine session, this time with a computer. The film was made in direct relation to the audience success of the previous two: "Stormy Wine" and "Ripe Wine". In the comedy-oriented story, the computer is an important actor, around which all the events ac ...

An Accident (1986)

In the 1980s, the building themes were transformed into bipolar moral dilemmas involving overly ambitious individuals who wanted to excel at any cost. The hero is the head of a demolition crew that demolishes large buildings, initially a sympathetic young ...

Shades of Fern (1986)

Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef's older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more ...

Akcia Edelstein (1986)

Až do konce (1985)

Sudetenland, May 1945. A group of retreating German soldiers capture a group of young female workers, totally deployed in a chemical factory. He wants to use them as hostages during his advance to the American demarcation line. Together with them, they tak ...

Love from the Passage (1985)

Nineteen-year-old Pavel Kříž spends all his free time in Prague's arcades, bistros and discos with a group of thieves called Roby. Pavel has a high school diploma, but works as a window cleaner, and a large part of his income comes from the scams, scams ...

Angolský deník lékařky (1985)

The true story of a group of Czechoslovak citizens who are building a paper industry in Alto Catumbela, Angola, as part of economic development aid. Based on a true story, the film describes the raid on the settlement, the kidnapping by UNITA gunmen, the h ...

Dva kluci v palbě (1985)

In the spring of 1945, the last war clashes took place on the Czech-Moravian border. However, amidst the heavy gunfire, colourful boyhood adventures also take place. The main characters, however, are oblivious to the dangers lurking around them and bravely ...

Ferdinande, vrať se! (1984)

The Infinity Castle (1984)

Technical school student Pavel Brychta, arrives at a youth correctional facility located within a chateau in Konečno. He is an atypical, but not hopeless case for the institution. Pavel comes from a well-off family and his antisocial behaviour on the verg ...

Psí kůže (1984)

O princezně solimánské (1984)

Cizí lidé (1984)

Michal detektivem (1983)

Divoký koník Ryn (1982)

Several of the works of writer Bohumil Říha have been filmed. This novel by the pro-regime writer also inspired a children's film, which was directed in 1981 by the experienced family filmmaker Václav Gajer. The story takes place in 1947 and it is based ...

Behind the Sloe-Bush (1981)

Third part of the trilogy. Vaska again is visiting his grandfather living in Bohemian Forest and understands the importance of guarding nature. ...

Mature Wine (1981)

A loose sequel to the 1976 comedy Stormy Wine. The screenwriters and the director recreate on screen a number of characters from the South Moravian town of Pálavice, characterised by their different attitudes and approaches to work and private life. A num ...

Zlatá slepice (1981)

This fairy tale tells of a magical hen who lays golden eggs. When an enterprising taxi driver (greedy, of course) learns of such a miracle, he immediately realizes that he could easily and effortlessly get rich if he could get such a hen... ...

Co je doma to se počítá, pánové... (1980)

For the Novák and Bartáček families, money is king, and they'll do just about anything to get it. While René Novák pitches his parents a lucrative scheme to swindle as many people with the last name Novák in the country as possible, the Bartáček cl ...

Děti zítřků (1980)

The Medal (1980)

The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In his devotion to the Habsburg Monarchy, he fanatically carries out his military orders, but he ultimately suffers the Empire's disfavor. ...

Cattaro Mutiny (1980)

In February of 1918, in Boka Kotorska, the greatest uprising of Austrian sailors broke out. Forty warships, with 6.000 sailors, rebelled against the Austrian Monarchy. The uprising was bloodily crushed after two days, and it's leaders shot. ...

Mejdan na písku (1980)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1980)

The television adventure film, based on Verne's novel of the same name, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, tells the adventures of three shipwrecked prisoners aboard the legendary submarine Nautilus. ...

Diagnóza smrti (1979)

Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Honza Linhart, who had an accident, and a young woman found unconscious in a forest by a man picking mushrooms. The woman is identified as Katerina Marková, t ...

The Young Man and Moby Dick (1979)

Good-looking Edita Beningerová (Jana Brejchová) arrives at a chemical factory in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad Labem together with her young assistant Nada (Zlata Adamovská). She is hoping that her ex-husband, outstanding practical chemical engi ...

Trasa (1979)

Experiences of a Tatra factory driver during demanding load tests of Tatra 148 trucks in extremely harsh climatic conditions during the construction of the Nizhnevartovsk oil pipeline. ...

Ježčí kůže (1979)

V hodině nejtěžší... (1978)

Proč nevěřit na zázraky (1978)

Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it is a twelve-year-old village boy who experiences dangerous situations with retreating Nazi troops in picturesque South Bohemia... Any attempt to achieve a m ...

Florijánkovo štěstí (1977)

Vo Brikitě (1977)

O Honzovi a Barušce (1977)

The Liberation of Prague (1977)

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discuss ...

Smoke on the Potato Fields (1977)

A stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a small town. Gradually he's drawn into the lives of his patients—a childless couple, a pregnant girl with a stern mother, the son of a duck farmer—and each relations ...

Povídky Svatopluka Čecha (1977)

Good Day, Town (1976)

The town is waking up. The bus driver Josef Král is saying goodbye to his wife Vera who is in a state of advanced pregnancy. At the rolling mill, the master craftsman Mares is preparing for retirement, which is now only two days away. Elderly Simon who gr ...

Plavení hříbat (1976)

The holidays of Vince Adamek, a student of the agricultural school in his native village in South Moravia, are purely working. He likes his job as a zootechnician so much that he seems to turn down an assistant position at the university... ...

Wine Working (1976)

It is the summer of 1968 and also in South Moravian Pálavice appear political clashes. The so far peacefully farming Unified farmers' cooperative starts splitting. Some of the farmers have found the cooperative called Vidrupa and want to deal with wine in ...

Značka „Svobodný otec“ (1976)

Operation: Daybreak (1975)

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich. ...

Dva muži hlásí příchod (1975)

An only son, Jirí Valenta (Jaromír Hanzlík), has been drafted to the army. At the barracks he acquires the nickname Seamstress because he sews rugs in his spare time. One day, his friend introduces him to Julka Vávrová (Jorga Kotrbová), a girl he is ...

Sokolovo (1975)

The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops fo ...

Lesní ženka (1974)

Jak se Honza učil bát (1974)

Honza is a clever young man and a strong man who is not afraid of anything. Despite this, he cannot find friends in his village, and even the girls are just laughing at him. That is why he prefers to go out into the world to try his luck. He is not scared ...

A Valley of Beautiful Frogs (1974)

A fifteen years old Jana escapes summer camp wearing nothing but bikini... ...

Adam and Otka (1974)

On the holidays, ten years old Adam and his little sister Otka, four years junior to him, travel from a village Vykán to their aunt to Prague. Their parents left for Hungary to the world championship in ploughing. The children have the address but they do ...

Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)

Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides in her closest friend the owl. When she comes across three magical acorns, she's granted a single wish for each one of them. ...

Days of Betrayal (1973)

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the a ...

Rodeo (1973)

Trávnička (1973)

And Give My Love to the Swallows (1972)

This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she was tortured and eventually executed by the Nazis, her diaries indicate that she was optimistic for the hum ...

Velikonoční dovolená (1972)

Soldier Honza Marek got a three-day leave. Marta, whom he dated before the war, did not wait for him, but she prefers him again to her new admirer, the impractical and still dreamy Ivan... ...

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 ...

Five Men and One Heart (1971)

In modern hospitals are carried out intensive cardiac surgery. Daily operations individually comments attendant Cajthaml ... Stylized ,, dream "scene are combined with documentary footage of actual operations, which were filmed at the University Hospital i ...

The Key (1971)

Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. ...

Princezna Lada (1970)