Bedřich Baťka

Birth : 1922-08-21,

Death : 1994-06-06

Movies

Little Darlings
Director of Photography
Two 15-year old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.
Čtyři v kruhu
Director of Photography
Marketa Lazarová
Director of Photography
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.
Sign of the Cancer
Director of Photography
A murder in a hospital run by incompetents.
Ninety Degrees in the Shade
Director of Photography
A woman attempts to cover up the thefts committed by the manager at the shop she works at.
Fear
Director
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 Varga (Radoslav Brzobohatý) can then get on the trail of the people with whom the victim was involved, especially at the photographic studio headed by Bohuslav Pacer (Bohus Záhorský).
Zajatci tmy
Director of Photography
Láska nebeská
Director of Photography
The Golden Fern
Director of Photography
Wandering through the forest, a woodcutter finds a golden fern whose seed turns into a beautiful woman - they fall in love. After getting drunk in a village feast, he gets to sign up to the army. The fairy gives him a shirt to wear and asks him to swear he will never abandon it. At the war front, he falls in love with the the colonel's daughter and will have to perform various feats to get her attention.
Promiňte, omyl!
Director of Photography
The Coward
Camera Operator
In a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with anti-Nazi partisans, the schoolteacher collaborates with the Germans in fear.
Where an Alibi Is Not Everything
Camera Operator
“A bored housewife, a husband who married her for show, and a stupid boy who is full of himself because he is dating a Swiss woman.” The words of Inspector Tůma sound like they’re from a European melodrama, but in fact they come from a Czechoslovak crime story. A pair of detectives, counterfeit medicine, the high-society setting of a Karlovy Vary hotel, and Oldřich Nový as the aging hotel manager Kraus.
Policejní hodina
Assistant Camera
Prázdniny v oblacích
Assistant Camera
In the beginning, the book of Bohumil Říha was about the aircraft of Kaneti. Both the book and the film that came out of it tell about children's parties spending their holidays near the sports airport. The newly scanned airplane first assigns to aliens, then suspects them of espionage, but in the end it will explain everything. Children will even find the courage to take part in an aviation trip. According to period reviews, the film was a bad thing to teachers, as they said it was inappropriate.
A 105 p.c. Alibi
Assistant Camera
On an early Sunday evening, people of the small town are reading lottery results that are hung on a board. Young man Karel Antos is annoyed that his lottery-ticket missed the main prize, a car, by only one number. Karel is going to the pub to drink away his bad luck with his friend Jirka Broz. The old accountant auditor Zelinka drops a wallet. Karel picks it up and before he gives it back he notices the winning lottery-ticket in it. Both young men accompany the old drunk man. Karel steals the ticket and exchanges it with his own. Next day, Zelinka is found dead. Investigators, Captain Tuma and the Lieutenant Líbal, soon discover that this is a murder case covered up as an accident.
Hry a sny
Assistant Camera
Kasaři
Assistant Camera
Bomba
Assistant Camera
Johnny's Journey
Assistant Camera
Five years old Johnny is going for his first journey with no parents.
Sons of the Mountains
Assistant Camera
Štika v rybníce
Assistant Camera
Victorious Wings
Assistant Camera
Workers from the aviation factory near Prague set up a racing club for young people that will take part in the international sailing competition for Czechoslovakia.
Na dobré stopě
Assistant Camera