Jiří Pleskot

Jarmila Slezáková, a young woman convalesces badly at home after the results of a heart attack which she suffered some time ago. After...

Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it is a twelve-year-old village boy who experiences...

The drama of a man for whom work has become the only meaning of life. His cold and impersonal manner arouses the disapproval of his colleagues and...

It is 1955 and the government in Czechoslovakia has declared an amnesty for post-war emigrants. Many of them returned to their families, only young...

February 1948. The struggle of decisive social forces for the heart of Europe.

A petrol pump is run by a permanent team: the manager Vávra, a former civil engineer ing. Stejskal, a smug crook named Karafa, and an old man,...

Historical reconstruction of the events of the anti-fascist struggle in Slovakia in 1943 and 1944.

A telephone mechanic secretly pursues his passion for hunting, deceiving his wife and enlisting friends to cover for him. After a successful hunt, he...

Lying in the construction industry used to be a criminal offence, but skilful people could do a lot of things. This somewhat embarrassing tragicomedy...

The future communist journalist Julius Fučík had a stimulating childhood and youth in a working-class environment, when his moral maturity...

The theme is inspired by the real life stories of Czechoslovak cyclists Jan Vesely and Jan Kubro. It offers us a look behind the scenes of big races,...

The King is very worried. His kingdom is not exactly brimming with wealth, and he has three daughters to marry. So he's going to solve both problems...

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 Slippers of Happiness is another film made by the Slovak Film Production in co-production with West German companies based on classic world fairy...

A frightening atmosphere, full of chilling dampness and darkness, follows the fate of a desperate searcher who tries in vain to unravel the supposed...

Even a strict and not very popular teacher can achieve extraordinary popularity with his pupils. When their favourite teacher breaks his leg just...

It's a crisp autumn morning. Marta prepares breakfast and goes to work. Little Jenda has a sore throat, so she has to go to her grandfather's to look...

Third part of the trilogy. Vaska again is visiting his grandfather living in Bohemian Forest and understands the importance of guarding nature.

A group of children is trying to solve a mystery related to the diamonds smuggling.

The story of an unhappy, childless princess, her loving husband and the poor villagers threatened by a terrible disease, who finally received help...

Carefree young nurse Marta learns upon her husband's death that he was involved in all manner of criminal activity, which puts her life in danger.

On Christmas Eve, 1944, in Nazi-occupied Slovakia, the Kubiš family grapples with survival amidst brutal reprisals. Marián collaborates...

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

A first part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls.

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...

A host of actors in the classic national fairy tale by A. Jirásek. Jirásek's "Lucerna" is the best-known and most performed of his...

When Dr. Hahn is found murdered in the hospital’s inspection room, investigators question several suspects: his colleague and longtime lover...

A holiday story about first tentative love, set in a romantic cottage village on the banks of a river. There, a 15-year-old girl feels lonely and...

The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of...

The hero of the story is a forty-something intellectual, a sensitive composer of classical music. His exclusive profession, his work, which is...

Once upon a time, there was a kingdom where a spoiled and conceited princess lived. She didn't like frogs and other similar vermin, so she didn't...

Even in 1970, films were made, prepared in previous years and expressing the poetics of that time. Ivan Renč created an almost protocol parable,...

Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This...

A harsh and raw story about the difficult life of a village woman and the sad fate of her three daughters...

Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová)...

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as well as economic, political, and social...

After a few months at the spa, 14-year-old Pavel discovers that his love, his classmate Zuzana, has outgrown him. In addition, she has found a new...

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot),...

The story of a juvenile delinquent who, despite society's efforts to reform him, irrevocably ruined his life.

The short story film follows the fate of three young men who will soon have to decide what to do with their lives. The first "Poet", an aspiring...

A second part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls.

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided to hold a traditional ball despite the ban....

In the 1950s, selected basic soldiers in a small border unit guard the western border with devotion, fighting intruders and uncovering their network...

Three stories from the school environment, mostly from the perspective of teachers. In the first story we see an unnecessarily strict teacher, in the...

A tragic event in the life of a film director searching on two continents for the traces of Jawaharlal Nehru.

The problematic protagonist is the head designer of a housing association who wants to make a profit at any cost. His unwitting opponent is a bar...

The main characters are a young psychologist Doubravka and a village youth, Honza Macháček. He is a tractor driver who temporarily lost his...

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...

The cheeky, energetic Plajznerka, whose body is filled with the desire for a thick slice of happiness, tames and whips the forgotten devil to make...

The final part of the ghost triptych will take Marta, Magdalena and Janko to the world of television. The 700th anniversary of the town of...

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...

The years of Mánes' studies at art schools and on the period when the mature and distinctive artist was already promoting his concept of a new...

A section of the life of George of Poděbrady from his coronation to his death (1458–1471), creating a portrait of a remarkable monarch whose...

A romantic fairy tale about how a castle lady found her lost son, who demonstrated rare bravery, kindness of heart and intelligence. He answered the...

It's just 12 o'clock. And that's the right time to enter a fairy tale. It was also the time when Apolenka got there with her glass ball and was...

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...

The honest and a bit naive director of a variety agency, Jožin Petránek, sits on the qualification committee that judges entertainers and...

In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gravely wounded political fugitive, putting himself...

The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his...

The true story of a little boy who was taken from his grandmother's care during the war by a court decision at the request of his father and his...

Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she...

Based on the novel by Jules Verne.

Two young men, indistinguishably alike, decide to swap. But with one a popular singer and the other a car mechanic, fitting into their new "life...

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...

A young man named Seven Feathers lives among thieves, but he doesn't like their "profession". Whatever the king of thieves steals, Seven Feathers...

The car thief Halama, the shy groom Poupě, the divorcing jealous Pic and the mustachioed cinema projectionist Vlk are suspected of robbing the...

Olga finds her husband Karel Brand, whom she has just divorced, shot dead after returning from the cinema. It appears to be a clear case of suicide,...

A love story of a couple of mature people of completely different characters, who lived and worked side by side for years only as colleagues, but...

In one village, there lives a girl named Žofinka, who loves playing the clarinet, which makes her father a little angry, as he would rather see her...

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly,...

The security forces, loyal to the people, uncover the conspiracy. At the center of the intrigue is an average actor who suddenly becomes dizzy from...

A short story film in which the first story takes place at the end of the German occupation, when a resistance fighter is arrested while transporting...

The rude and bitter mining engineer Štěrba strongly opposes the proposal of his colleague Ing. Vochoče to reopen mining in the old mine....

While Kendy returns to his hometown as an assistant director to film a thirteen-part series with a television crew, Štěpán...

Otakar Vávra dedicated his latest film to events accompanying the devastation of the first World War. It takes place in representative centers...

A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three...