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An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the stationmaster. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes hold and everyone’s worst instincts are released. Interrogations, the abolition of rights and the search for scapegoats ultimately lead to murder
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Game Hubač George, honored at Golden Prague 1977 and the MTF Monte Carlo 1978, one of the most original works of Czech Television production. The dramatic story of a father, son and entire family addresses a serious social problem that brings with it dangers of alcoholism.
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Honza Pavelka (Jan Hrusínský) wins the junior motorbike speed races. His thirteen-year-old brother Martin (Roman Cada), his assistant and biggest fan, answers the questions of his schoolfriend Pavlína in a superior tone. Student Zuzana (Libuse Safránková), who gave her scarf to Honza to wear around his neck for the races as a talisman is Honza's girlfriend. He met her when he came to her parent's home to repair the TV set. Honza declines an invitation to celebration with his friends. He goes off with Zuzana instead, but she refuses his intimate advances. The offended young man, who is about to serve his two years in the army, tries to blackmail her emotionally and the couple breaks up. Martin tries various schemes to bring them together again.
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Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and finalizing construction of subway and their lives crossed at certain points of this construction.
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Lieutenant VB, disguised as a laborer, is looking for a young woman killer among the staff of a wheel loader. But which of the possible motives found is the right one?
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A man and a woman from a different planet come to the Earth to get a cure for a disease that is apparently threatening to eradicate their civilisation.
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The husband and wife Ludva and Hedus Homolkas with their twins Péta and Máta and Ludva's parents - the granny and grandpa - arrive in the snowy Spindleruv Mlýn for a holiday. They promise to each other that they will not spoil the quite expensive holiday by quarrels. If somebody hurts the other one he/she will kneel as a punishment.
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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 humanity of her captors and did not by any means hate them. Told with simple dignity, this film makes clear why Maruska became a national hero.
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A divorced engineer is preparing "accidental" meeting between his eleven years daughter and his fiancé.
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1945, Checoslovaquia. Después de la II Guerra Mundial, se producen masivos movimientos migratorios que alteran el mapa étnico de Europa de forma irreversible. Viktor forma parte del grupo de checos a los que les han sido adjudicadas en los Sudetes tierras pertenecientes a alemanes que, antes de ser expulsados, se ven obligados a trabajar para los checos recién llegados. De este modo, Viktor conoce a Adelheid Heinemann, la hija del dueño del palacete que ahora es de su propiedad. En un mundo devastado por las diferencias étnicas y la violencia nacerá entre ellos un amor surgido del dolor más profundo.
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Un sacristán que gusta de vestir como cura es invitado, por uno de los habitantes del pueblo, a ser pastor en una iglesia sin párroco. Un profesor ateo se molesta con él y trata de avergonzarlo de varias formas, incluyendo ser atrapado con la belleza local, Majka. (FILMAFFINITY)
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El conflicto entre razón y fe, la ausencia de Dios y la mentalidad pagana fue el eje argumental de una de las películas más recordadas de Frantisek Vlácil: El valle de las abejas.
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The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in Prague, get hold of a saltcellar with a plan for the military exploitation of Venus hidden in it, and hand it over to the beautiful agent Alice. He will have to compete for the saltcellar with other agents working for the world's various greater and smaller powers. The head of the Prague counter-intelligence unit gets news of agent W4C's mission. Deficient in personnel, he nominates accountant Foustka as agent 13B. Mr Foustka takes his dog Pajda with him and the two head for the airport. Pajda helps him track down agent W4C in a classy hotel that becomes the battleground for the interests and plans of the secret agents from different countries, each trying to get hold of the precious saltcellar.
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Película compuesta por tres episodios que representan varios aspectos del amor: la tentación, los sueños y la aventura. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Ambientada durante la ocupación Nazi de Checoslovaquia, relata la vida de Milos, un joven funcionario de los ferrocarriles checos que carga con el karma de una genealogía de perdedores y desgraciados que han escapado heroicamente al modelo de vida de un hombre responsable a base de trampas y otras artimañas. El colaboracionista director de los ferrocarriles del pueblo les encarga la misión de proteger ciertos trenes estratégicos, indispensables para los planes de dominación del Führer en Europa central. Milos verá ahí la oportunidad de escapar a la maldición de los varones de su familia que no han sido nunca verdaderos hombres. Pero nuestro protagonista tiene un gran problema: no puede satisfacer los deseos de su novia Masa. De este modo, no se puede concentrar en la misión que le han encargado, ni podrá convencer al mundo de un valor desconocido hasta el momento en su familia.
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A young man tries to enter the building of the Mammoth Cybernetic Supermachines Research Institute again and again but each time the doorkeeper spots him and kicks him out. The youth finally arrives with all his friends and a huge live bear from the circus where he works as an accountant. He is finally allowed in where he explains to the members of the directorate that he wants to work at the Institute, since he graduated in cybernetics and, besides, he has invented a machine for forecasting time of death. When the conniving research manager learns that their director is going to die in two days, he hopes to rise to his position.
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Seven days, or rather evenings and nights, in the life of Jenka (Stanislava Bartosová), a young good-looking nurse. Jenka is attractive to men and enjoys their company, but there is a limit beyond which she won't go, since she is faithful to her Filip, who is doing his military service. On Sunday the girl awaits Filip to arrive on a short period of leave, but instead his friend Míla (Frantisek Nemec) turns up and apologizes for Filip, who has to stay in the barracks.
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Siglo XVIII. A una aldea bohemia llega un nuevo párroco que adopta una actitud inquisitorial sobre la vida y costumbres de sus feligreses, tratando de averiguar si en su grey se oculta alguna oveja negra. El elemento discordante resulta ser un maduro molinero, que destaca por saber interpretar los signos de la tierra y del clima.
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Spy film about a man with a face lift who gets recruited by western organisations.
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Based on book by Svatopluk Turek.
