Jan Cmíral

A movie directed by Zbynek Brynych.

The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to fool the boss and earned a death sentence. The convict runs away from the killer through Vienna to Prague, which his Austrian colleague in crime recommended as a safe hiding place. None of them knows that the Czechs learned so much tricks under real socialism that a seasoned Italian professional is not enough to watch.

Matej and Jenda, two of the eight children of the poor Pelc family in the Giant Mountains, help in a glass works where the oldest brother Francek works. They hide into a tub not to be seen by supervisors checking on the ban of children labor. They miss the Epiphany carol (songs and treats door-to-door) and all neighbor village boys again on them in all the neighbor houses. On their way home they are passed by a fast moving big man with a large backpack. The boys send the customs officers, who are pursuing the strange man, to the opposite direction. The man then thanks them and rewards them the next day. Based on fairy-tales and legends the boys think the man is Krakonos (the giant living and ruling in the Giant Mountains).

In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes to practice in the countryside. His series of odd court cases reveals more about the human condition than about law. In one of these litigations a wayward nephew has cheated his elderly aunt out of her savings. In court, the nephew insists the money was a gift, but his aunt explains she only gave him the money as a loan. Although the lawyer technically wins the case, everything of value seems lost in the meantime. His services are paid for in rabbits because the aunt has no currency, and in the end, the nephew cons his aunt into parting with her savings anyway. Other cases expose similar types of petty corruption.

A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.

A crime drama directed by Zbynek Brynych.

A comedy about exchange of 12 apartments , which, its organizer, lawyer Radosta, rightly called Action Ball Lightning. To prepare, organize and execute the exchange of twelve apartments is a work worthy champions. Radosta, who was excellently played by Rudolf Hrušínský, solved all sudden difficulties and complications on the fly and with grace. To be sure that the on the D-day everything goes well he prepares a little rehearsal, which reveals many minor issues caused for example by wedding ordered to inappropriate term or hesitation of some participants. Last but not least a night exercise announced by drunk psychologist Knotků, creates a lot of confusion that nearly sabotaged the whole operation.

Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occasionally take care the grandparents and Honza's fifteen-year-old brother Martin. Zuzana continues studying and Honza devotes all weekends as an amateur competitor to the motor-cycles at the speedway. Zuzana is not interested in motor-cycles. Martin holds responsible for his brother's marriage and at the advice of his friend Magda, who is of the same age, invites her sister-in-law to the club of Hucul horses so that she does not feel bored. But by misfortunes and unexplained quarrels both young husband and wife start being jealous of one another.

The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is stricken with a strange illness. Unknown to Martin or anyone else, the princess is actually under the spell of the powerful magician Andlobrandini, who is preparing a rejuvenating elixir made from the blood of nine men's hearts.

Taxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In the boot of his car the police find the body of a naked man. Koukal is arrested even though he claims he knows nothing about it. The case is assigned to Major Mlynár (Milan Sandhaus). The police identify the corpse as that of an Austrian citizen called Mitrik. Koukal has been regularly driving people interested in gambling to a secret gaming den. The police are put onto the gambling den by another taxi driver, who admits that he drove Mitrik there. Mlynár and officer cadet Pecka (Ivan Vyskocil) feign interest in gambling and visit the gaming den incognito.

Sunday in September 1977, a celebration of the Miners Day. The old Hepnar is sitting at the cemetery and is recalling events from ten years ago. That time the representative of the ministry Barvír announced at the miners meeting that mining in the mines would decrease. He reasoned this decision by the fact the deposits of coal are almost used up. The boss of the mine and most of the miners protested. Barvír did not take their critical objections into account. He announced at the communist district meeting the closure of the business as the mine according to new economic principles did not prosper.

The director of films for kids called Bonzurka together with her loyal assistants Drahuska and Honza are looking for the actors for a new movie "The Knee". Children for this movie should not be afraid and shy and they must have talent for acting. Thus the scouting is quite difficult. The most difficult is to find an actress for a main character who lost her hair after a serious illness and now has to spent the whole holiday in the countryside with a bald head resembling a knee. Although the makeup artist does his best an artificial baldness does not solve anything. From the selected little girls only the self-assertive Rosemary has the guts to let her long hair to be cut and shave off her head.

Давно минули времена, когда на чешских реках было великое множество «водяных». Водичковы и Вассермановы представляют последние династии «водяных» в Чехии. Около спасательной станции у вышеградского тоннеля, где упал в Влтаву автобус с иностранными учёными, за проявленное мужество право быть первым получает водолаз Алоиз Водичка. Дом Водички к тому же был снесён при посредничестве Доктора Мрачека. Следовательно, решено доктора Мрачека утопить.

Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she has no experience with a partner love. She has been living alone with her divorced pretty mother Eva (Milena Dvorská), a dentist, for many years. Recently, however, Eva met her former school-days love at a graduates' party, nowadays a famous hockey goalkeeper Brukner (Frantisek Velecký). Also his marriage fell apart; he leaves the national team and decides to leave Prague for his home town and to share flat with Eva. He takes with him his son Petr (Oldrich Kaiser), in Andrea's age, who gets his last chance to finish a grammar school in the town.

После того, как солдат отрубает руку брату короля, король решает распустить армию, а Генштаб готовит военный переворот. Не по собственной воле в дворцовые интриги вмешивается Стюарт Гампл, астролог уникальной газеты «Темп», которая сообщает о событиях, прежде чем они умудряются случиться. Очень скоро Гампл пал жертвой мятежной военщины, но при этом остался жить, правда, уже в другом обличье…

Three detective stories, three different views of life and death... Collection of three horror short stories.

This film brings us back to show us the life of the famous ancient sage Aesop, who helped people with his wisdom in their struggle for freedom and happiness.

This historical film by Hynek Bočan touches upon the indecisiveness of the Czech nation, ready to bend the backbone in face of foreign rule. Situating the story at the close of the Thirty Year War enabled the depiction of the misery of the people that affects even an impoverished aristocratic milieu. Rudolf Hrušínský appears here in the role of an indecisive knight, persuaded for a long time and in vain to join the anti-Habsburg movement. The story does not only captivate through the depiction of manifold human characters, intrigues and sycophancy, but also through the circumstances ruling over the devastated farmstead, sunk in mud and crudeness. One of the best films with an updating tendency has come into being here, rightly being named along the such greats as Kladivo na čarodějnice (Witches' Hammer).

A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the pastor, and tries to embarrass him in various ways, including being caught with the local girl, Majka.

It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.

A black comedy set in a Prague cabaret.

Короли двух соседних государств - Генрих и Добромысл Весёлый, заочно решают поженить своих детей, ведь тогда между этими странами всегда будет мир. Но у молодых людей другие планы - каждый из них хочет увидеть своего суженого заранее. Переодетые, они влюбляются в друга, не зная, кто есть кто. Чтобы избежать свадьбы, принцесса Елена притворяется грустной, её не может рассмешить ничто. Король ищет спасителя, который заставил бы принцессу смеяться...

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that she’s having an affair with his boss, he devises one elaborate plot after another to murder the rival, each time with pathetic results.

Бухгалтер пан Фоустка совершенно неожиданно получает задание захватить материал фантастической ценности - микрофильм плана использования Венеры в военных целях. За этим микрофильмом охотится знаменитый агент одной державы. Его позывной - "W4C". Пану Фоустка надо его опередить и во чтобы то ни стало захватить микрофильм…

A robbery in a Prague jeweler's shop results in the shop manager Kubát and his deputy Litera being shot and wounded. The culprits take the jewelery away in a stolen car and that very night hide the loot tens of kilometers outside Prague in a forest. Then the three robbers part with each other. One of them, Burian, leaves in the same car, the other two, Duda and Hovorka, take to flight in another car, which soon ends up in a car crash. Hovorka dies in the accident, but Duda survives and hides in an abandoned cottage. Burian is arrested, Duda is traced out by a police dog. Duda confesses to the robbery to the criminologist Málek, but refuses to say where is the jewelery. The robber then begins to shoot and Málek kills him in self-defense. The court fails to prove Litera's involvement in the robbery and the only one convicted is Burian. The disappointed Málek leaves the police and begins to work as a cab driver.

The protagonist (Rudolf Hrusinsky) is a dull, fat, shy government clerk indulging in voyuerism and ego fantasies. In love with another clerk (Kveta Fiolova), he is urged on in his pursuit by a commiserate executive. The story is told in a flashback sequence as the cuckolded Hrusinsky attempts suicide by gassing himself in his bathtub. The "Murder" of the title is not a murder as such, rather the murder that Hrusinsky remembers planning upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness with his supposed friend and advisor. Both plots failing in his mind, he loses himself in fantastic reveries of his funeral and of hypocritical mourners. ' Deciding (perhaps) that this is not the way out either, he gives up the attempt and imagines a life of reconciliation and eventual affluence.

Немолодая супружеская пара Беранковых, научных сотрудников, как обычно по четвергам, ложатся спать вместе. Руженка только что блестяще защитила новейший препарат по корекции сновидений, а Индрих озабочен созданием устройства для поднятий тяжелых грузов, идею которого он случайно находит в комиксе с очаровательной блондинкой Джесси на обложке. Мысли о гравитационной перчатке, описанной в комиксе, и о её обладательнице Джесси, не покидают его и во сне. Заметив это, супруга подключает к нему прибор трансляции снов, и, обнаружив на экране ту самую блондинку, решает применить на муже новоиспечённый препарат… Однако, как обнаружилось, у него есть побочный эфект — материализация сновидений.. Далее ожившие герои и злодеи комиксов со всеми своими сверхспособностями будоражат спокойную и размеренную Прагу.

A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets out of hand.

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

Глубокий психологический анализ одного из представителей поколения молодых энергичных функционеров начала 60-х гг. Рабочий Ярда чувствует себя обманутым: он недоволен тем, куда движется общество.

Действие начинается в июле 2163 года, когда экипаж из сорока человек корабля «Икар» отправляется в сторону планет звезды Альфа Центавра. Такому большому человеческому коллективу в замкнутом пространстве корабля угрожают непредвиденные психологические конфликты. Через четыре месяца начинается проявление отчётливой усталости и даже страха перед пустотой космоса. Но вдруг опасность мобилизует всех: на пути «Икара» появляется летающий объект.

A story of a young boy called Bobesh and his funny adventures.

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.

Действие фильма происходит в течение одного автобусного рейса. Все участники этого путешествия - случайные попутчики. Они никогда не знали друг друга. Автобус Прага - Карловы Вары отправляется с конечной остановки в 13:30. Его пассажиры разные люди: молодая девушка, легкомысленная и обаятельная, дама с собачкой — олицетворение мещанства, пунктуальный чиновник, твердо верящий в превосходство Запада и старательно не замечающий успехов социалистического строительства, кинорежиссер, который часто уносится в мечтах далеко от реальной действительности, придумывая сюжет своего будущего фильма. Едут в автобусе и молодые люди, любители легкой музыки, едут пожилые супруги и другие пассажиры. Несколько дорожных приключений, остроумные шутки, веселая музыка делают комедию одним из тех фильмов, которые всегда нравятся зрителям.