Petr Čepek

Историю Фауста, человека, который продал душу нечистому, представляет выдающийся чешский мультипликатор Ян Шванкмайер. Он превращает всем известный миф о Фаусте в сюрреалистическую смесь анимации и гиперреализма, в которой действуют живые актеры, глиняные куклы и гигантские марионетки. Герой Шванкмайера блуждает по узким улочкам Праги с мистической картой в руках. Лабиринты улиц приводят его на заброшенный чердак, где он находит старинный кукольный театр и «Фауста» Гете посередине комнаты. Он примеряет костюм Фауста и вживается в его образ. Начавшись как невинная забава, его путешествие превратилось в реальность, и герой очутился в лаборатории знаменитого алхимика…

В некоем чешском городе, где между собой ведут борьбу различные мальчишеские группировки, трагически погибает мальчик-звонарь. У него находят необычную головоломку «ёжик в клетке», которая вскоре исчезает. Ребята из клуба «Быстрые стрелы» начинают собственное расследование, пытаясь узнать причину смерти звонаря и найти загадочную головоломку.

Действие фильма разворачивается в первый послевоенный год в атмосфере снова обретенной свободы и новых надежд на будущее. Действие раскрывает отношения маленького Эди к двум авторитетам в его жизни — отцу и учителю Гниздо. Игорь Гниздо — учитель, «партизан и участник сопротивления», который укрощает класс разбушевавшихся озорников, которые довели свою предыдущую учительницу до сумасшедшего дома. Строгими методами, частью которых являются очень гибкая розга и увлекательные рассказы о военных впечатлениях, он смог успокоить класс, а своим примером заслужить его любовь и восхищение. Восхищение Гниздо вызывает и у женщин, которых очаровывает своим шармом, что ставит под угрозу его учительскую карьеру.

Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy (Petr Cepek), tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for a fight in which he injured a functionary of the National Committee and for stealing material but actually by the blame for this crime was pinned on him by the road-builders in whose group he worked. The prison doctor knows that Jan is an emotionally deprived person who never knew his parents and spent all his childhood - except one year with foster-parents - in orphanages, homes for youth and reform schools. He arranges a five-day holiday for Jan, who wants to find his mother's grave.

Sonya is the heiress to the riches of a Czech noble family—the Hajns. Petr, a social climber marries her, ignoring some shady goings-on—in particular, an insane uncle who prowls the mansion believing himself invisible, a peccadillo the family indulges. The uncle’s stalking every corner of the house, popping out of cupboards and out from behind curtains slowly takes its toll on the young bride.

A narration of episodes from the life of the famous Czech poet, Karel Hynek Mácha. Throughout the film, we witness a deep analysis of Mácha's complex character (his relation to another Czech writer of the time Josef Kajetán Tyl, his unbearable jealousy, his solitude, his attitude to nature,etc.) on the well-depicted historical background with all its particularities.

The story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing also gets a son with her. Dealing with such a situation is not easy, especially when one day the child's mother disappears. Twenty year old Zdenek faces a serious decision. Although he is aware that a child may endanger his studies and perhaps even future career, he refuses to entrust him to the care of the state institution.

Комические приключения деревенского растяпы, помощника водителя грузовика. Номинация на «Оскар» в категории «Лучший иностранный фильм».

A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth.

It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers. Each of the veterans is given a magic item - one gets magic harp that provides him with servants by wish, other one endless pouch of gold and the last one owns magic hat that can create all the staff excluding money and people.

This movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants of Kersko (Kersko is a small woody area full of cottages and roods). These people are both simple and sensitive, they have their own pleasures (e.g. Leli is a collector of cheap, but inutile things) and the greatest delight of all of them is a hunting. Crude poetics of amateur hunting is screened by dreamy pictures of this area. Menzel mixes sentimental lyricism and rough (but not vulgar!) humor and the outcome is the never-ending landscape of continuous life in the proximate nearness of nature. The performances of actors are brilliant. Both Rudolf Hrusinsky as a Franz and Jaromír Hanzlik as a Leli have nonrecurring charm bottomed on a pain and inebriation. Only the music is not perfect: Jiri Sust usually assembled his film music from his older works and in this movie there is many quotations.

Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminalist, poet, writer and philosopher).

Hrdinou příběhu je silný a odvážný mladý kovář s dobrým srdcem. Jmenuje se Mikeš a stejně jako jeho otec i on zatouží vydat se do světa na zkušenou. Cestou se spřátelí se dvěma mladými siláky, mlynářským pomocníkem Matějem a pacholkem Ondrou. Když se dovědí o třech krásných princeznách, které záhadně zmizely, přesvědčí Mikeš své lenivé společníky, aby se vydali ztracené královské dcery hledat. Po dlouhé cestě plné překážek se jim podaří zjistit, že princezny unesl zlý Černý král. Když se Mikešovi podaří přelstít ohyzdnou babici, a výměnou za její utržený vous získat její služby, podaří se jim osvobodit dvě ze tří princezen. Boj o záchranu třetí, nejkrásnější princezny však bude mnohem obtížnější.

В этой анимационной версии рассказа Эдгара Аллана По путешественник приезжает в поместье Ашеров и обнаруживает, что брат и сестра, живущие в нем, находятся под загадочным семейным проклятием: чувства брата стали болезненно обострены, а его сестра почти впала в кататонию. Чем дольше посетитель остается в поместье, тем все ближе эффекты проклятия подходят к своей страшной кульминации, а он вынужден выбирать между безопасностью своих хозяев и своей собственной.

A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A scientist convinces him that human blood is being used as fuel for Mima's ever winning car, but does that really work?

Two men of principle face each other. One is backed by a whole, however poor village, the other by the law. It is a conflict that reaches it's climax in the closing shoot-out. Instead of the Wild West, the gunshots go off on the Slovak-Polish border. Michal Docolomansky as the horse smuggler and Radoslav Brzobohaty as the customs officer from Prague meet in Holly's Night Riders in a western-like confrontation set in the insecure years of the newly founded Czechoslovak Republic.

Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed reports by Maryska, who has organized a pig-killing feast and is ably assisting the butcher. When she invites the old curmudgeons on the board to enjoy the fresh pork, they are too happy to agree. Francin doesn't know whether he is going to get a permanent contract. To make things worse his brother Pepin - eccentric, noisy and garrulous - turns up on an indefinite visit.

After five years of hard work in America Juraj Hordubal (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) returns back home. He is looking forward to his wife Polana (Libuse Geprtová) and his little daughter Hafie. The family and the village welcome him with hesitation. Everybody believed that Juraj died in America because Polana stopped receiving money from him already two years ago. Polana's farm was prospering first of all thanks to the young stable boy Stepán (Sándor Oszter). Men in the pub first indicate and then say to Juraj directly that Polana has been unfaithful to him with Stepán.

Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Honza Linhart, who had an accident, and a young woman found unconscious in a forest by a man picking mushrooms. The woman is identified as Katerina Marková, the divorced mother of a young girl. Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) suspects that she is a victim of mugging since a bloodstained small ax has been found near the site of the crime and, according to witnesses, Ms Marková was missing her watch and a bracelet, from which a gemstone has also been discovered. Linhart has lost his only kidney in the accident; in order to live a normal life again, he will need a kidney transplant from the mugged woman if she dies.

The castle custodian Král is moving to a new place of work with his wife, son Radek and a five - years old daughter Terezka. Radek takes his cat Líza with him. A fully loaded truck moves through the country which is in spring blossoms, gradually changing into a snow-covered land. Children's imagination creates from real experiences magic stories - a fairy-tale grandpa takes them to a new castle, the children fear a black-horse rider who - as the grandpa and the cleaning lady assert she hates cats.

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.

Вы знаете, как в Бразилии ловят обезьян? Они кладут орех в бутылку, а потом оставляют. Обезьяна хватается за орех, но не может вытащить лапу с орехом из бутылки. Как вы думаете, она откажется от добычи? Нет. Жадная обезьяна не отпустит орех, пока за ней не придут охотники... Действие происходит в Лондоне в 1946 году. Группа грабителей устраивает девушку начинающей горничной в квартире известной актрисы. Таким образом, воры готовят почву для изощрённого ограбления редких мехов и драгоценностей. Девушка травит актрису и постепенно заглядывает за кулисы своего брака. После убийства Бланш, Жюли решает заполучить все драгоценности, меха и имущество...

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.

A picture of generational confrontations between children and parents. A young and ambitious violin virtuoso, Peter, lives in long-lasting conflicts with his father. Only after his death Peter realizes how much he had been hurting his father. Still, not even the tragedy can make a change in his shallow life in stereotype.

Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, blackmail, and the pesky need to kill others lest she be exposed.

A romantic story of a young nobleman who sees a beautiful girl at the carnival who seems familiar to him. He feels that he saw her in an old castle, where only the old countess and sister live. It is precisely in their salon in the city that she meets the girl again and learns her history

Герой народной сказки является молодой принц, который после смерти родителей, отправился путешествовать. В своем путешествии узнал магию лошади, и встретился с прекрасной принцессой Slavěna. По совету своей лошади закрыл повязкой один глаз, и устроился в замок, где жила принцесса, садовником. Сказал принц, что зовут его Баяя. Но однажды появился дракон, и сказал, чтобы ему в жёны отдали принцессу, или он уничтожит целое королевство. Принц Bajaja одел броню на себя и своего коня, и поехал спасать принцессу. Он спас принцессу, но с поля битвы уехал не узнанным. Об этом узнал Черный рыцарь, и под угрозой применения силы взял клятву, что тот, кто спасёт принцессу, станет её мужем. Победу принца Баяя выдал за свою…

In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.

A tale based on novel by Czech writer Bozena Nemcova.

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.

Группа путешественников из недалекого будущего пытаются исправить историю. Их цель — убить молодого Эйнштейна. Движет ими озабоченность ужасной экологической ситуацией, возникшей на рубеже веков. Все дело в отходах от производства нового вида вооружений, идея которого была найдена в трудах великого физика. Однако, убийство Эйнштейна ничего не решает. Новая «редакция» истории, в которой Эйнштейн погиб в 1911 году, еще больше нуждается в коррекции…

In the aftermath of World War II, a soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family and falls in love with the daughter, now a maid. Their relationship forces him to confront the tension between his love and his conscience.

A horror film set in and around an opulent theater, featuring vampirism, ghosts, romance, and music.

Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful novel Looking Back. He meets with the novel's female author, a University professor and writer named Olga Machová (Jirina Trebická), approximately ten-years-older than him. In the beginning, they do not understand each other at all. Frantisek is a skeptic experiencing a moral crisis, unsatisfied with both his work and his private life - he lives separated from his wife and has no deeper feelings for his numerous lovers. He even gets drunk from time to time and breaks the public peace. Olga is lonesome, too, but considers her life fulfilled.

Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by strict monk Armin. After years of hardship, Ondrej escapes from the Order when he is wrongly punished, and sets out for his former home. Arriving to discover his father to be dead, Armin now not only assumes control of his fathers properties, but seeks to marry his former stepmother.

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 gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat characters like the hefty homosexual cook, shadowy clerks, snooty waiters, and valets prone to violence. He finally meets the woman of his dreams only to lose her and ultimately meet with tragedy.