Václav Kotva
Birthday: 1922-01-20
Place of Birth: Radnice, Czechoslovakia
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Proč nevěřit na zázraky
Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it ...
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Shadow of a Flying Bird
It doesn't help to have an exacerbated situation like a family losing their only son - killed in a m...
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Vítězný lid
February 1948. The struggle of decisive social forces for the heart of Europe....
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Nikola Šuhaj loupežník
The merging of reality with legend, the image of reality (Ruthenian Verkhovyna in the 1920s) and its...
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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte, an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colle...
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Pumpaři od Zlaté podkovy
A petrol pump is run by a permanent team: the manager Vávra, a former civil engineer ing. Stejskal, ...
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The Secret of Steel City
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna a...
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Když kluci drží basu
A telephone mechanic secretly pursues his passion for hunting, deceiving his wife and enlisting frie...
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Love Between the Raindrops
Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cob...
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Pan Vok odchází
The former reputed lover and bon vivant Petr Vok from Rožmberk was widowed at the age of sixty-three...
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Julek
The future communist journalist Julius Fučík had a stimulating childhood and youth in a working-clas...
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Friday Is No Holiday
A Czech film comedy about the ordinary days of an ordinary Novák family, about the confusion of find...
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Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...
For the Novák and Bartáček families, money is king, and they'll do just about anything to get it. Wh...
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Just Whistle a Little
Several big-city teenagers are falsely accused of vandalizing a valuable organ, casting light on the...
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The Secret of the Devil's Pocket
How it will end? Let's just tell you that on one side of the mountain, the stream that had run befor...
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The Hit
Mr Jiš managed to give his first script at Barrandov. Already in the preparatory phase, he discovers...
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Run, Waiter, Run!
A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make ...
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Hodina života
It is 1883 and Josef Hibes, a social democrat, is organising a strike of textile workers. The main d...
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Zakázaný výlet
Based on a real event - the shooting of a group of working-class children on 20 April 1930 in Radotí...
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That Instant, That While
Autumn 1944. A doctor is accused in the collaboration with the Nazis and found guilty......
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The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professo...
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Jak se peče štěstí
Princess Valerie is a bit spoiled and bossy. So when she sniffs the magic rose of the devil's grandm...
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Attention, Rounds!
A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital....
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Velká sázka o malé pivo
The year is 1946 and the story takes us to a great bar among the characters of Prague's gallery. A p...
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Od vraždy jenom krok ke lži
The unlucky cultural officer of a spa facility gets involved in compromising situations against his ...
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The Story of the Voyages
In this fantasy with dragons and flying machines, 10-year-old Marta is determined to find her brothe...
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The Last One Will Go to Hell
A historical film that takes place on the eve of the thirty year war combines aspects of fairy-tales...
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Švédská zápalka
The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his six...
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Cesta peklem
A dramatic action film about stuntmen who perform the most dangerous stunts in the film world. One d...
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Closely Watched Trains
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
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Hotel for Strangers
A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been en...
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The Fair Is Here
Children from the village Bystrá are awaiting a nice and thrilling weekend. On Saturday they will pl...
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Windstorm
A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself ...
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The Unfortunate Bridegroom
A comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One of th...
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Zázračný hlavolam
On one Sunday, when a scrap metal collection is announced, the children find a strange wire puzzle t...
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A Nice Plate of Spinach
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Lisk...
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The End of Agent W4C
The invincible agent Cyril Juan Borguette alias W4C has been assigned a mission to go to a hotel in ...
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A Man Who Rose in Price
Mr. Benda, a married father of two children, works for a company that liquidates old banknotes. Afte...
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The End of a Priest
A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a...
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Crime in the Night Club
The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this cou...
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Looking Back
Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful n...
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A Ridiculous Gentleman
When a noted professor receives a new treatment for his heart ailment, his outlook on life changes. ...
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Svatej z Krejcárku
The shoemaker, Lájošek Cína, is a naive good-for-nothing with his heart on his sleeve, who, as the d...
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Prague Nights
A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's dive...
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Flirt se slečnou Stříbrnou
At the centre of the story is Miss Lenka Stříbrná. An attractive, but a little strange young woman. ...
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You Are a Widow, Sir
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, g...
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Devilish Honeymoon
Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting...
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Svatby pana Voka
Czech nobleman Petr Vok of Rozmberk (Milos Kopecký) is no longer so young, but his amatory adventure...
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Lekce
During World War II, a German university professor creates a spy ring that supplies the Allies with ...
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Svatba bez prstýnku
At the end of the occupation, Vojta, a young worker, marries the daughter of a rich builder to prote...
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Touha Sherlocka Holmese
Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa o...
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Inn At the Flying Dragon
Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's tale, "Inn at the Flying Dragon," brings dark fantasy, ghostly apparitions...
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Fandy ó Fandy
Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different ...
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Rubín má barvu krve
Restorer Rauch, who lives in an unsettled relationship with his wife, is assigned to appraise a rare...
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Six Bears and a Clown
The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. T...
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Affairs of my Wife
Doctor Adéla Neradová, a medical doctor, has succumbed to the desire to uncover a criminal and becom...
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The Gambler
This lavish Soviet/Czech co-production is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous novel, The Gambler, w...
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Zlatá svatba
At the beginning of normalisation in the 1970s, the appearance of ideologically tinged stories inten...
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Mys Dobré naděje
World War II is slowly coming to an end. On the German side of the border, panic slowly breaks out a...
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Days of Betrayal
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslov...
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Maturita za školou
The short story film follows the fate of three young men who will soon have to decide what to do wit...
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A Valley of Beautiful Frogs
A fifteen years old Jana escapes summer camp wearing nothing but bikini......
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Dvacátý devátý
In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as recon...
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The Valley of the Bees
Cast out by his father, young Ondrej joins the Order of the Teutonic Knights, where he is raised by ...
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Egyptologové
Comedy, 1974 (Czech Republic) : The movie takes place in England. A group of married middle-aged gen...
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Poslední ples na rožnovské plovárně
This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided...
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Případ mrtvého muže
In 1955, a detained agent feigns loss of memory, speech and hearing. According to his written statem...
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Sedmého dne večer
A former aircraft mechanic wants to start a new life in a small border village after a stint in pris...
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Katapult
Adaptation of Vladimir Paral's comic novel, which criticizes consumerism as an attitude of life....
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O houslích krále snů
A fairy tale about a king who does not solve his worries and problems, but runs away from them into ...
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Akce v Istanbulu
A communist agent, who has successfully caught on with the stupidly gullible American secret service...
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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is st...
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Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping
Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrma...
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...and again that Lucy!
A second part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls....
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Dům Na poříčí
The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events s...
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Oči pro pláč
A comedy about the unhinged owner of a lavish Art Nouveau villa. However, she is not entirely seriou...
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The Brave Blacksmith
Young blacksmith Mikeš sets out into the world for an adventure, accompanied by the miller's assista...
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Pod nohama nebe
Olda Raška, a novice pilot, is going through an emotional crisis that will greatly affect his profes...
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The Liberation of Prague
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germa...
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Jacob
The 11-year old Jakub is living in a children's home, when he is picked up by his father. The father...
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The Cremator
In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering ...
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Jako kníže Rohan
Vladimír Menšík in a dramatic story of a suddenly rich peasant. The play tells the story of the trag...
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Setníkův štít
Centurion Kubát, of Czech origin, is staying in the camp of the Habsburg army, which is suppressing ...
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O princezně z Rimini
Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Rimini, there lived a beautiful princess named Nicoletta, who ru...
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Kouzelníkův návrat
Although the title would suggest it, this film has nothing to do with fairy tales at all: it takes p...
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Hubert the Smart Boy
Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy, is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like...
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Bergman a Bergman, detektivní kancelář
The story of father and son detectives takes place mostly in the dignified surroundings of a concert...
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Prodavač humoru
The honest and a bit naive director of a variety agency, Jožin Petránek, sits on the qualification c...
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Rubikova kostka
The story begins at the airport and on an international express train, which is being carried by a G...
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Three of Us and Dog from Petipas
The summer holidays are approaching and the children are bragging about all the exciting places they...
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Bičianka z doliny
A TV adaptation of Zuzka Zguriška's novel of the same name. The story takes place in a characterful ...
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Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist
Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He dec...
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Snow White
A queen is so vain she needs the magical mirror the Black Knight forged to tell her daily she's the ...
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Joachim, Put It in the Machine
A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a ...
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Princezna Duše
Greek mythology has always inspired creators of various artistic genres. No wonder, for Greek myths ...
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Vražda kočky domácí
The loose series of detective stories featuring Jan Kanyza as Major Bohuslav continues with another ...
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The Divine Emma
The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe th...
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Uloupené dětství
The true story of a little boy who was taken from his grandmother's care during the war by a court d...
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Kam zmizel kurýr
A mysterious man named Michael Allan Jones arrives in Prague to search for his ancestors. Specifical...
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Hráči
A professional card player and swindler, Icharev, arrives in a small town with a plan to rip off som...
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The Uninvited Guest
A run-of-the-mill family is terrorized by strangers dressed in military garb who invade their privat...
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Chance
The actress, who is starring in a successful theatre production, is offered a big film role by an It...
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Svatá hříšnice
In the Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, be...
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Bitva o Hedviku
In the early 1970s, the class struggle flared up in full force on the big screen - the hero of this ...
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Pan Tau – der Film
Pan Tau, the friend of all children, now also helps the adults. A movie producer is in trouble and ...
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Bratři Kipové
The ship's first officer, Karel Kip, and his brother, engineer Petr Kip, are convicted as mutineers ...
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Šílený kankán
During the First World War, the crooks Scholef and Krumka sell weapons on the black market. After th...
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Drátenická pohádka
About the fact that honesty will get you the furthest... The main characters of the fairy tale are t...
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Princess Goldilocks
A princess was so beautiful and had such golden hair that she was known as Pretty Goldilocks. A neig...
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Cutting It Short
Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an ado...
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Byli jsme to my?
The theatre director encounters the disinterest and irresponsibility of the acting troupe, whose mem...
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Magnolia
King Černomysl has four daughters and one son, who is just celebrating his 17th birthday. The king i...
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Z pohádky do pohádky
The story of Goldilocks, Sleeping Beauty, Krejcik in an enchanted castle and the skirmishes of the a...
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Jánošova kouzelná flétnička
Serving a miserly farmer would be unbearable if Janos didn't have such a pretty and sweet daughter. ...
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Silnější než strach
A short story film in which the first story takes place at the end of the German occupation, when a ...
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Muž s orlem a slepicí
The young dude, who can't even make responsible decisions in life, doesn't get along with the group ...
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The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night
An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of ...
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My Daughter's Operation
A car accident occurs and Dusan's teenage daughter Milena gets very seriously injured. To add insult...
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Zuřivý reportér
Josef Laufer portrays Egon Erwin Kisch in two daring journalistic adventures: in “Zuřivý reportér,” ...
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Swedish Package Holiday
Three intertwined stories about Serbian truck driver who is involved into drug trafficking without k...
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Mark of Cain
In 1866, as Austria faces war with Prussia, 19-year-old Ludvík Machl joins a secret Czech resistance...
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The King of Colonnades
In May 1945, a broken violinist lies drunk by a creek, haunted by memories of his life before and du...
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Silnější než já
A story inspired by true events, the fate of a multiple juvenile murderer, takes place in an apprent...
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Svědek umírajícího času
At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), d...
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Vracenky
In the fifites the 10 year old boy Honza lives with his single mother in Prague. The mother is a ded...
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The Beggar's Opera
Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of a...
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Trhala fialky dynamitem
The heroes of this wacky spectacle are the large Karafiát family, who, in the emerging market condit...
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V erbu lvice
The life story of Blessed Zdislava of Lemberk, about whom legends rather than sparse historical refe...
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The Golet in the Valley
In 1930s Ukraine, the desecration of a sacred bath disrupts the sex lives of Jewish villagers....
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Too Loud A Solitude
An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their...
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Král Ubu
A cruel picture of the ways in which human beings acquire power and then cling to it. The story of F...
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Nothing Really Happened
An overprotective mother plagues her daughter out of guilt over unintentionally scarring her daughte...
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O Radkovi a Mileně
The fairy tale is based on two fairy tales by Božena Němcová, "Righteous Bohumil" and "The Black Pri...
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Kníže Václav
The story of Saint Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia, based on Josef Kajetán Tyl's stage play "Bloody Bapt...
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Anička s lískovými oříšky
A romantic fairy tale about faithful love and how difficult it is to fulfill it. "I have never seen ...
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Mistr Kampanus
A TV adaptation of the famous novel in which writer Zikmund Winter depicts the life story of Prague ...
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