Věra Tichánková

Пожилой учитель окончательно решил покинуть преподавание, но не может примириться с позицией проведения своей старости, сидя на лавочке в парке. Он полон идей, активности и мальчишеских страстей. Вопреки возражениям своей жены, которая с сарказмом комментирует всю деятельность своего мужа, поступает в бригаду по приёму тары в небольшой супермаркет. Маленькое помещение, где встречаются бутылки с бутылками и люди с людьми, - самобытный микромир, полный трагических судеб.

Shark in the Head unfolds into a stunning cinematic powerhouse that combines comedy and drama for a touching story about how we influence the people we meet while being profoundly affected ourselves by the colors they bring to our own lives.

Short Comedy skits of popular jokes. A continuation of the first movie.

Risque jokes acted out in short skits.

Fifteen-year-old Kateřina will once again spend the holidays at the Castle Krabonoš, where her parents are both wardens. She finds it dull because she's got to sit at the castle's ticket office and sell tickets. That is, until the arrival of the new tour guide, Petr, a young history student. She falls in love at first sight. But for Petr she's just a young crazy girl. Katka tries to get Petr's attention in various ways, but all in vain. She makes a last ditch effort by pretending to steal some rare castle steins from the castle's collection. It's only after some detectives arrive that Katka realizes that she may have overdone it, but she finally manages to get Petr to notice her.

Приключения двенадцатилетнего пражанина Петра, приехавшего на каникулы к дедушке и бабушке. Под его присмотр отдан фокстерьер маминой подруги, которому тоже полезен свежий воздух и простор. Местные ребята поначалу с прохладцей встречают столичного гостя, но потом проникаются его бедой, когда пса похищает пан Плавец, намеревающийся нагреть руки на продаже породистой собаки. Совместными усилиями дети планируют побег Блэка...

To the intolerant and bloody-minded Prague actor Bergner (Milos Kopecký) is the lead in Moliere's Misanthrope which he is studying now as tailor-made. On top of that he is malicious and he advises to the new actress Helenka (Dagmar Havlová) in such a way that she upsets the theatre director. If Bergner accuses somebody of a mischief and he is wrong, he never apologizes. When he almost crashes an older elegant lady by his car on the zebra crossing, instead of an apology he calls her an old ballet dancer... But in Brno's TV he takes part in a discussion on manners and he gives himself as an example of good manners and grace. In the train he meets a magic old man (Ladislav Pesek) who warns him and admonishes him to change his behavior. After he arrives to Prague the old man's threat comes true.

Soviet engineer Kuznecov is coming to Prague as an expert on work with the tunneling shield in construction of the metro. He is returning after more than thirty years. In May 1945 as a young soldier in the Red Army he was seriously injured in the liberation of Prague and while recovering experienced a great love with a young teacher called Vera.

Láda Pitras (Ludek Sobota) and Oto Vacák (Petr Nározný) founded in the company Pragokov a Research department of recruitment of labor. For recruitment of workers in professions sought after both recruiters worked out an effective, often almost illegal methods. They followed secretly for instance the welder Niederle and managed to record his lovesick courting to his colleague Anicka. The fear of his jealous wife made him to join Pragokov.

In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, 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 relationship reveals a bit more about him and the idyllic but insular community.

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 grows and sells vegetables at the market has problems with his wife. Their little home has to give way to a new development but the wife Simonka refuses to move out. The chairman of the workers' council has troubles with the miner Adam, who has started drinking. He doesn't know that Adam is getting divorced and fears he may lose his young son to his wife.

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 private trade. Michal Janák, chairman of the farmers' cooperative is a deliberate man and refuses the latent return to the capitalism. As an excellent farmer he continues preparing planting out new vineyards. His adversaries do not agree - the returns will come many years later. Jozka Hrdlicka, an émigré, notices on the Austrian TV the interview with the representatives of Vidrupa and decides to visit his native village. The new suit and the hired car transform the bankrupt and criminal to the successful businessman with wine.

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 not know the way to the Northern Town. They set out for a place on foot, across the historical parts of the town.

Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. At nine points during the film the action stops, and a moderator appears on stage to ask the audience to choose between two scenes; following an audience vote, the chosen scene is played.

In the village cemetery, the funeral of a married couple - victims of a car crash - is ending. The relatives unscrupulously take away the facilities of the dead people's little cottage, totally ignorant of the fate of eight-year old Ruda, whom the childless couple took from a children's home and adopted. Fortunately, an elderly lonesome uncle named Tony remains in the empty cottage and decides to take care of the boy, nicknamed Münchie after Baron Münchhausen for his wild imagination.

Ordinary man making his dirty actions in the small town and his coming to the right side.

A classical ballad motif about an aging father and his three daughters is quite unusually here set against the backdrop of Czechoslovakia of the 1950s. After having been expropriated, the former landowner Majda seeks refuge with his three daughters whom he had sent to a convent a long time ago. But only the youngest one is able to forgive him and she is willing to take care of him despite the threat of expulsion from the order.

A murder in a hospital run by incompetents.

In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died nearby and a sexual motive was proved in the case of her murder. In the case of the nurse, the motives are not so clear. Two criminologists from Prague - Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) and Lieutenant Varga (Radoslav Brzobohatý) - patiently collect all available leads and question the villagers.

A man returns to his native village in search of renewed faith and his old girlfriend. But she, now a middleaged woman, does not recognise him and he goes home, more disillusioned than ever.

A woman attempts to cover up the thefts committed by the manager at the shop she works at.

Когда до конца войны остаются считанные дни, чешский партизан Павел получает тяжёлое ранение, и его отправляют в госпиталь. Там, иногда приходя в сознание, Павел вспоминает прошлое. И в веренице воспоминаний о борьбе с нацистами ему не дает покоя одно. Его мучит мысль, что командир немецких карателей, Энгельхен, лично ответственный за ужасы, которые пережил он и его товарищи — те, которые смогли пережить — всё ещё жив. Жизнь в Павеле поддерживает страстное желание — отомстить любой ценой.

A group of jolly young people work in the Prague Tesla factory, also spending most of their leisure time together. One of them, guitar player Zdenek, begins to shun his friends' company. He has fallen in love with Vera, who does not belong to the group. The happy-go-lucky young man already has several acquaintances and has his own method to get a girl: to take his motorcycle, his guitar and a bottle of wine and take her to a rented houseboat. Vera, however, is different and gets angry at Zdenek. But she is fond of him and thus eventually spends a whole evening with him on the houseboat. At a preventative medical examination, the doctor tells Vera she is pregnant.

В фильме три новеллы: «Алло, такси», «Далёкие горизонты» и «Заза». В первой новелле рассказывается об одном дне шофёра пражского такси, его встречах с различными людьми. Вторая повествует о судьбе негритянской девочки. Третья новелла — о девушке, работнице шляпной мастерской.

Действие происходит в Словакии после подавления народного восстания 1944 года. Учитель Боднар считает, что сопротивление фашистам бесполезно и поэтому надо притаиться, переждать тяжелые времена. Однако в минуту трагических испытаний скромный учитель жертвует жизнью, спасая своих односельчан.

По одноименной пьесе Франтишека Павличека, о судьбе одинокой женщины Анны Коциановой, всю свою жизнь посвятившей сыну. Мать не заметила, как сын вырос эгоистом, и поняла, что его влечет "легкая и красивая жизнь" лишь после того, как он бежал за границу.

This early short by Jaromil Jireš anticipates the formal and stylistic experimentation that would characterize VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS.

Farmers get away from their arguments by embarking on a religious pilgrimage, enjoy a picnic en route, and on their return decide to form a cooperative.

Действие фильма происходит в одном из сельскохозяйственных кооперативов Чехословакии. Енда, Элишка, Ирка, Анча и другие члены Союза молодежи возмущаются тем, что их родители, в силу укоренившихся частнособственнических пережитков, по мелочам расхищают кооперативное имущество. Ребята решают прекратить подобное безобразие. Так как никакие доводы на взрослых не действуют, ребята составляют списки на своих родителей, в которых перечисляют все то, что те взяли из кооператива. Взрослые возмущаются — «как могут эти ябедники позорить своих отцов». Но на очередном собрании ребята сообщили, что за последнее время члены кооператива растащили имущества более чем на 20 тысяч крон...

Для дезорганизации работы транспорта и срыва экспортных поставок иностранная разведка забросила в Чехословакию матёрого диверсанта Рудольфа Карлика. Он остановился у бывшего радиста Яна Шимека, своего старого приятеля по диверсионной работе.

Учитель латыни пражской гимназии Малек непоколебимо верил, что в каждом человеке, кем бы он ни был, есть то хорошее и благородное, что включает в себя понятие «высший принцип». Но, столкнувшись с гестаповцами, которые за незначительный проступок расстреляли трех его любимых учеников, старый учитель понял, что место честного человека — в лагере активных борцов против угнетения, насилия и террора.

Действие фильма происходит в Праге в 1942 году. Павел, молодой судент, прячет на чердаке своего дома еврейскую девушку, скрывающуюся от фашистов. Несмотря на все ужасы немецкой оккупации, между молодыми людьми возникает любовь, но их отношения заканчиваются трагедией. Павел - единственная ниточка, связываюшая девушку с внешним миром. Мать Павла узнает об их отношениях и принуждает обитателей дома принять решение: может ли девушка дальше скрываться в своём убежище…

Czechoslovakian film.

A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the first skit, a young child's impressions are observed as his newborn baby sister becomes a part of the family. In the second, a young woman falls in love for the first time one summer, and in the third, a tough, older peasant woman battles against the farming cooperatives. Finally, in the last segment, everything comes full circle as a woman who is about to become a grandmother dies while her daughter-in-law has not yet given birth.