Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she worked. Police captain Marha (Frantisek Nemec), who is leading the investigation, is informed by Simandl that on the day of the murder Vera promised to...
A horror film cut almost in the British style, with the very English František Němec, the grumpy coachman Josef Somr, an abandoned country estate, and its mysterious inhabitant. Based on a short story by J. Hanák.
Josef Brzek is 73 years old when his son Petr takes him to the Pardubice archives of the Ministry of the Interior, where the StB files are kept. He had wanted to go there for a long time, but his wife Věra had talked him out of it. He just wanted to make sure that those he suspected were really...
This is the story of the Bohemian King, Přemysl Otakar II, and the forgotten pilgrim, Odorik, who was the first-ever European to set eyes on Tibet. This medieval road movie brings an unconventional view to these two great figures of Czech medieval history. While the character of Odorik, regarded...
Gone are the days when Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte won battles, received ovations, and felt like a victor. All good things must come to an end, and after his fateful defeat at Waterloo, the famous military leader is shamefully imprisoned on the island of Saint Helena, where he commands chickens,...
How entertaining it is to toy with human destinies and outwit one another with witty conversation and gallant banter! This realization shines in the beautiful eyes of the fairy Sousio and her cousin, the magician, when they meet again, as they always do every hundred years. They must see how their...
Princess Lolinka is as pretty as a picture, yet suitors give her a wide berth. And they have good reason: the princess is spoiled, whiny, and faints at the drop of a hat. Just when it seems that the king and his scribe Jakub will have to endlessly tell the princess made-up stories about suitors who...
Řehoř lives a contented life. His wife Evženie does not. After sixty years of marriage, eighty-year-old Evženie comes to her granddaughter, lawyer Katka, to ask for her help in divorcing her eighty-five-year-old husband Řehoř. Katka is shocked by her grandmother's decision and her harshness...
When the Nazi army occupied Bohemia and Moravia on March 15, 1939, the Czech nation faced a period of mortal danger. A few weeks later, Major General Alois Eliáš entered the most dramatic period of his life – on April 27, 1939, he was appointed Prime Minister of the Protectorate of Bohemia and...
