Vlastimil Čaněk

Cadaver (2020)

In the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, a starving family finds hope in a charismatic hotel owner. Lured by the prospect of a free dinner, they discover that the evening's entertainment blurs the lines between performance and reality. Will they wind up the ...

Magische Momente - Ein himmlisch fauler Engel (2019)

Aspiring angel Addi is annoyed. She is sent to Earth to accompany the serious Marie-Louise on her train journey to her grandmother's house shortly before Christmas. Marie-Louise, however, wants nothing to do with her companion... ...

Under a False Name (2004)

A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire. ...

Jen o rodinných záležitostech (1991)

Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state. ...

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 ...

Currency and Peace (1988)

Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exchange his krona for deutschemarks so that he can visit Germany. A local spiv named Robert obliges Martin, but at an unfair exchange rate. When Martin finds ...

Výsledek testu (1986)

Oldrich and Bozena (1985)

At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war between the Přemyslovci and the other clans the main profiteer of this being the German emperor. At that time it seemed as if the Czech state and the lineage o ...

Kariéra (1985)

The story of a young man who found the meaning of love and a place in life at the cost of a loss. ...

Don't Call Me Major (1981)

A group of children is trying to solve a mystery related to the diamonds smuggling. ...

Concert (1981)

Rock concerts used to be suspicious. They were supposed to attract all sorts of strange individuals who meant no good. In this case, it's a pair of escaped convicts who want to hide in the heat of the concert... ...

Zakázaný výlet (1981)

Based on a real event - the shooting of a group of working-class children on 20 April 1930 in Radotín. Thirteen-year-old Boženka's mother works as a laundress, and Boženka and her two younger siblings are not living on a bed of roses. ...

How to Dupe a Lawyer (1980)

Attorney Horic is a specialist for cases connected with motoring. He approaches to his work unconventionally, he does not hesitate to search for evidence right in the terrain and he is willing to take various risks. ...

Na koho to slovo padne... (1980)

A political drama dealing with the issues of contemporary construction and highlighting the various relationships within the party apparatus. ...

Na dvoře vévodském (1979)

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 ...

Silnější než strach (1979)

A short story film in which the first story takes place at the end of the German occupation, when a resistance fighter is arrested while transporting leaflets. The second story takes place in the 1950s at a cattle shed. The final episode tells the story of ...

Začátkem září se dalo do deště (1978)

Oddechový čas (1978)

The drama of a man for whom work has become the only meaning of life. His cold and impersonal manner arouses the disapproval of his colleagues and family members and leads to alienation. Eventually, he realizes the need for "time out" to reflect on his own ...

Dům Na poříčí (1977)

The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding the great construction disaster in Prague in 1928, in which 46 construction workers died. The disaster thrilled the entire republic at the tim ...

Vedlejší cesta (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 ...

Zrcadlo pro Kristýnu (1976)

The 19-year-old volleyball player has been bedridden for a long time due to a spinal injury. The self-confident and energetic girl has time to recap her life and short sporting career so far... ...

Ohnivý máj (1975)

Dvacátý devátý (1975)

In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building mission of the Communist Party and attributed to it exclusively humanitarian intentions ("Days of Betrayal", ...

The Motive for Murder (1975)

A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", Karas kills a woman he raped some time ago in order to silence her. However, he accidentally kills another woman. In "Hostages", a drug addict, Chaban, terro ...

Vrtkavý král (1975)

The historical television play was written based on Vančura's Pictures from the History of the Czech Nation and takes place against the backdrop of the European situation at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Přemysl Otakar I., father of Agnes of P ...

Zločin v Modré hvězdě (1974)

It is 1920, political unrest is growing in Prague and the Social Democrats are about to betray their historic mission by prioritising their own selfish interests instead of those of the working class. An extortionist scandal falls on the Social Democratic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Svědectví mrtvých očí (1971)

When former criminal Gaudl discovers the strange behaviour of his son-in-law Professor Horacek, he becomes worried about his daughter Hedwig and starts to gather evidence. When his suspicions seem justified, he visits his former colleague and friend, Lieut ...

You Are a Widow, Sir (1971)

After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti and with brain of ...

Silvestrovské kousky Františka Housky (1971)

Sedm havranů (1967)

In the bleak autumn mountains of the Beskydy Mountains, a dramatic story set in the wartime November 1944 takes place. Seven refugees join forces with partisans, but during a joint sabotage operation - blowing up a bridge - they discover they have a traito ...

Starý Burgunďan (1966)

Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)

In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real! ...

Třiatřicet stříbrných křepelek (1965)

A psychological study of the life of a woman, a working mother of two young children. The film captures a small slice of her life, just one day, during which the heroine takes stock of what she has experienced so far and what she has succeeded or failed in ...

If a Thousand Clarinets (1965)

A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments. Great mystery is immediately found by TV station. And soon the military base becomes a stage for huge TV show. ...

Passing Through a Thick Forest (1964)

The story of two communist friends, one of whom leaves as secretary to the district committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the other remains in the village as a party agitator. ...

Fear (1964)

A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on volunteer work some time before. The police detectives, Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) and Lieutenant Va ...

Prague Blues (1963)

African student Omar would like to return home to Angola, but he is enrolled in a three-year postgraduate research fellowship at a clinic in Prague. One day while seeing off a friend at the airport, he and a girl named Mariama are brought together by chan ...

Bylo nás deset (1963)

At the beginning, the newly arrived soldiers form a musical theatre troupe to escape the humiliation of the older ones. They vow that they will be good to the next recruits. But it turns out that nothing can be done without strictness and that greed is not ...