Zdeněk Maryška

Bardi (2024)

Young regional director Petr Dresler accepts an offer to direct the play "The Last Train to Sussex Has Already Left" at a large brick theater in Prague. However, he has no idea that all Prague directors have already turned down this job before him. ...

Zbojník (2023)

Indián (2022)

Andrew is a tough businessman and an arrogant workaholic. He runs a large, successful company in Prague. The meaning of his life is money. Ondřej has just negotiated the deal of a lifetime in Nebraska with a wealthy investor who will finance the construct ...

Casting na lásku (2020)

The central character of the romantic comedy Casting for Love is Stela Nebeská, an unsuccessful actress who, approaching forty, realizes that she is unlikely to make it big. She loses her job at the theater, where she only played minor roles anyway. Her c ...

My Story (2019)

Young talented Elizabeth leaves a successful career in ballet for love. The man who has stolen her heart, however, has a dark side, and in a single moment Elizabeth loses everything dear to her in life. ...

The Shamer's Daughter 2: The Serpent Gift (2019)

The Shamer's Daughter, Dina, with the magical power of compelling people to admit their most secret shame, must save her family with her newly found father. But he is a Blackmaster, with the power to make people see and believe things that aren't true, so ...

Paní plukovníková (2018)

A battle over a family inheritance breaks out among the main characters of the comedy. Their ideas about what to do with it vary. A quirky widow full of life sees it one way, while her repeatedly divorced daughter, unemployed son, and his ex-wife see it an ...

Liebe (2017)

Liebe. What begins as a trivial romantic etude about the lives of four young people who arrive on the island of Rügen to shoot a film about love gradually descends into a vortex of mutual suspicion, self-accusation, recriminations, and animalistic sex. Wh ...

Klec (2015)

A successful scientist dares to openly and forcefully criticize the unproductive activities of the institute in which he works. He draws attention to outdated procedures and also to the fact that scientific work must not fall into the abyss of mediocrity a ...

Storyteller (2014)

A loose adaption of Bára Nesvadbová's novel of the same name. A novel that lacks a dramatic line and concentrates on the flow of emotions and feelings of two injured and beloved women, two women that the aging lothario Mára came between. The theme of th ...

Nosferatu in Love (2014)

In a fit of rebellion against his director which masks his own dark demons, a tormented movie actor (Mark Strong) starring as Nosferatu runs away to a nearby small Czech town when his young wife leaves him, teaming up with a local petty crook with unexpect ...

August Fools (2013)

An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her shop, she sometimes doubles as a fortune teller. When Jan, a Czechoslovakian jazz musician and Elsa's old lover ...

Zakázaný člověk (2009)

At the age of twenty-eight, Karel Havlíček Borovský is at the height of his fame and political influence. He owns the largest Czech newspaper, is widely known, admired by all, and financially secure. He has a beautiful young wife, Julie, and his future ...

Dívka a kouzelník (2009)

During the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the main characters of the story meet in a village pub. A traveling magician performs his variety show there with his assistant and current lover, with whom the local innkeeper had an affair in the past. The ...

Devatenáct klavírů (2008)

Czech Television has successfully aired two TV movies detective novels by Emil Vachek: The man and the Shadow and Evil minute. In both stories of the First Republic, acting chief inspector Klubíčko detective Tchaikovsky stamping, bachelor, gourmet, colle ...

Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008)

Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim ...

Swingtime (2007)

The story is based on Operation Stone, during which State Security agents deliberately misled citizens of the Czechoslovak Republic who were attempting to leave the country illegally by creating fake borders and fake border patrols and interrogation teams ...

I Served the King of England (2007)

Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always di ...

The Prince & Me 2: The Royal Wedding (2006)

With just weeks before their royal wedding, Paige and Edvard find their relationship and the Danish monarchy in jeopardy when an old law is brought to light, stating that an unmarried heir to the throne may marry only a woman of noble blood or else he must ...

Mörderische Suche (2004)

Katharina's husband Richard vanishes in Prague. She uncovers his fake EU job, affair with Vera, and theft from the Russian mafia after Vera's father's murder. With help from undercover cop Bové, she learns Richard isn't a killer but entangled in crime, th ...

Before the Fall (2004)

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column, Friedrich encounters haz ...

The Prince & Me (2004)

A fairy tale love-story about pre-med student Paige who falls in love with a Danish Prince "Eddie" who refused to follow the traditions of his parents and has come to the US to quench his thirst for rebellion. Paige and Edward come from two different world ...

7 Days to Live (2000)

A grieving woman suffers terrifying visions of her own demise after she and her husband move into a country mansion. ...

O bojácném Floriánkovi (1999)

The story is based on Czech fairy tales, which depict water sprites as creatures indistinguishable from humans. They can help humans and form deeper relationships with them. A humanized water sprite also helps the fearful Florianek find happiness. However, ...

O pyšném panovníkovi (1998)

It would never occur to a confident and proud ruler that someone somewhere is counting his misdeeds and that punishment will soon follow. Only when he becomes an exile and has to live like an ordinary person and work does he find a new approach to life and ...

Curious Donkey (1997)

It tells the story of a young man who was turned into a donkey by curiosity and a fatal mistake. While the hero despairs and does not know how to return to human form, we can observe through his eyes the society that surrounds him. The television fairy tal ...

Passage (1997)

Michail Forman, a successful business manager, gets stuck in a traffic jam. The weather is lousy, his car breaks down and he forgot to buy a present for his 5th wedding anniversary. He jumps out of his car and finds some shelter in the entrance of a shoppi ...

An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World (1997)

Set over a two-decade period in a tiny Central European village, this drama not only chronicles a couple's tragic star-crossed love, it also serves as a metaphor for the tragedy of lost traditions. After opening in the snowy wilds as two people spectacular ...

Jak se Kuba stal mlynářem (1996)

The entire village and its surroundings are plagued by the greed of the local miller and the castle scribe. The scribe takes a liking to the beautiful Fanka, who works at the mill. But first, he must get rid of Fanka's beloved Kuba. So he decides to send h ...

Prsten a řetěz (1996)

Prince Dominik torments his father with his aversion to marriage so much that the king has him locked up in an old tower. In prison, the prince is discovered by the water nymph Aneta, who is enchanted by the young man's beauty. She boasts about her latest ...

Únos (1982)

The story takes place in Italy, a country where terrorism and kidnappings are almost daily occurrences. Rampant banditry, injustice, coercion, and ultimately hopelessness stem from political events. Sunny Italy is no longer just a place of ancient monument ...

Zelené červené jablko (1982)

Čtyři na sněhu (1982)

Obyčejný důvod (1981)

Požáry a spáleniště (1981)

Antonín Kachlík wanted to make committed films about the moral dilemmas of the working class, but in the era of normalisation, he could only proclaim how faltering individuals would eventually come to the desired thinking. This is also true of the adapta ...

Dlouhý týden (1981)

Karolina aneb Příběh ze starých časů (1980)

Drsná Planina (1980)

Chronicle of frontier division Czech police (SNB) in the years 1946 - 1949. ...

Noční expres (1980)

Kdo chytá štěstí za pačesy (1980)

Tvář za sklem (1979)

Alienation between the closest relatives is always a serious disorder of family judgment. Father and son not only do not see each other, but one does not even recognize the other when they meet by chance. No wonder, since the father has been in prison for ...

Kašpárek, Honza a zakletá princezna (1979)

The Moravian Land (1978)

The reason for making this film is clear: it was to cover up Vojtěch Jasný's famous chronicle "All the Good Natives", an account of the tragic consequences of forced collectivisation. The pro-regime director Antonín Kachlík also focuses on the socialis ...

Prokop Diviš (1977)

Julius a Ethel (1976)

Slunce v kaluži (1976)

Facka od holky! (1976)

Two classmates, the hard-working and honest Eva and the hot-tempered Petr, collect the most waste in a school competition and are rewarded with a trip to the sea in Bulgaria. ...

Kára (1975)

Deník psaný na vodu (1975)

Jednou v Karlových Varech (1975)

Juanova košile (1975)

Kouzelný televizor (1974)

Šek, na kterém chyběl podpis (1974)