J. O. Martin
Birthday: 1888-12-27
Place of Birth: Humpolec, Austria-Hungary [now Humpolec, Czech Republic]
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Playing with the Devil
Two marriageable girls, Princess Disperanda and her maid Káča, sign a betrothal with their own blood...
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Ves v pohraničí
The family of Prague greengrocer Pavlas was among the first immigrants to settle in the border villa...
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Distant Journey
Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a C...
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Rodinné trampoty oficiála Tříšky
The plump, punctual and slightly despotic Mr. Tříška worked as a housing officer, which completely d...
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Plavecký mariáš
In the past, most of the wood from the mountain forests was transported to the sawmills by river. Th...
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The Hen and the Sexton
Cooperative members are harvesting crops, trying to get new water piping installed and preparing to ...
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Boží mlýny
An old peasant from Chodský, Záhor, claims to the young Podestát that he returned three hundred gold...
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A Week in the Quiet House
A sometimes humorous, sometimes more serious look at the hustle and bustle of a house in Lesser Town...
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Kariéra
Karel Kubat, the successful director of the Globus printing house, learns on his fiftieth birthday t...
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Žízeň
The catastrophically dry weather of 1947 causes immense problems in the countryside. In the small vi...
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Dva ohně
A socialist drama from the time of the February coup. The owner of the brickyard will use several wo...
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The Trap
The course of an organized strike by workers from North Moravian steelworks in 1931 to resist mass l...
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Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy
Four short stories by the greatest Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek. "Soup for Poor Children" tells the...
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Action B
Film shows the struggle of the Czechoslovak armed forces against groups of Ukrainian Insurgent Army ...
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Shoesmachine
The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons ...
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Zlatý pavouk
A man was killed while trying to leave Czechoslovakia. One and a half kilograms of gold was found on...
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Nástup
"The Rally" is based on a communist writer Vaclav Řezáč's well-written novel of the same name...
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Against All
After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start ...
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Temno
The Counter-Reformation period: Myslivec Machovec is forced by representatives of the Jesuit order t...
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Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph
Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertisin...
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Mikoláš Aleš
A biographical film about the famous Czech painter Mikoláš Aleš, portrayed as part of the vanguard o...
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Jan Hus
The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti vše...
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Jan Žižka
The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420....
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Sons of the Mountains
The story of a friendship for life and death captures a real event that took place in the snowy Krko...
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Svítání
The family of the worker Kučera lives happily. His daughter Anežka, engaged to technical draftsman A...
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Before Graduation
The story of high school students, talented Jan and Karel, who has a problem with math. Their life a...
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O ševci Matoušovi
The revolutionary year of 1848 brought great hopes among the hitherto silent classes, awakening soci...
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Nobody Knows Anything
Martin Plechatý and Petr Nový roam occupied Prague with their trams. Times are hard and sometimes su...
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A Dead Man among the Living
Human bravery can take many forms, just as ideas about it can. Small-town public opinion begins to d...
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Three Pals
Young men Štěpán, Ludvík and Karel became friends abroad, where they fought during World War II. Now...
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The Stolen Border
Czech film tells the story of a border town in World War II. Family members and friends become enemi...
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O ševci Matoušovi
The revolutionary year of 1848 brought great hopes among the hitherto silent classes, awakening soci...
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Případ Z-8
The workers at the ironworks are working to fulfill a two-year plan. The spy group takes advantage o...
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Old Ironside
At the end of the war, the old train driver Matys saves his beloved locomotive Líza from depth charg...
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Posel úsvitu
A biographical film about a Czech mechanic and designer who was the first in the Czech lands to cons...
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Victorious Wings
Many of the young workers at an aircraft factory near Prague are members of an aviation club. On the...
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Mordová rokle
A new owner of the estate, Konrád Ritter von Schiess, arrives in the Czech village of Sluky. On his ...
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Štika v rybníce
Young bricklayers Franta Doubrav and his friend Béla meet two girls, Mařka and Vlasta, on their way ...
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Slovo dělá ženu
Innovator Ludvík Zach is in love with his technical data and improvement proposals and does not beli...
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