Václav Lohniský
Birthday: 1920-11-05
Place of Birth: Holice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Julek
The future communist journalist Julius Fučík had a stimulating childhood and youth in a working-clas...
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Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing do...
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Where an Alibi Is Not Everything
“A bored housewife, a husband who married her for show, and a stupid boy who is full of himself beca...
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Labyrint srdce
It is 1955 and the government in Czechoslovakia has declared an amnesty for post-war emigrants. Many...
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Zrcadlení
A 50-year-old foreign trade executive meets a 20-year-old student at a trade fair in Brno. The relat...
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Reportáž psaná na oprátce
Screen adaptation of Julius Fucik's story about communist fighters....
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Žalobníci
The young generation is not very at peace with the morality of their parents. In a story set in a Mo...
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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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Čestné kolo
The theme is inspired by the real life stories of Czechoslovak cyclists Jan Vesely and Jan Kubro. It...
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322
A story of a man threatened by a fatal illness evaluating his life (the number 322 in the film title...
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Smrt na Cukrovém ostrově
A Czech ship's doctor accidentally meets his fellow expatriates on a tropical island. Under his infl...
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Sny na neděli
In the pulmonary sanatorium, patients live out their small fates. But not everyone takes a responsib...
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Policejní hodina
The story of a poor, disintegrating family of a mother Fišerová and her three children. It is set in...
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Lvi salónů
A marquee stands on a sprawling Prague housing estate and is home to two young bricklayers, who have...
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Králíci ve vysoké trávě
Ten-year-old Martin attends religion at school and is always an altar boy at church. That's the wish...
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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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Escape Home
A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopt...
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Bez svatozáře
An outdated fireclay factory is due to close, but its long-time employees can't imagine stopping wha...
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Passing Through a Thick Forest
The story of two communist friends, one of whom leaves as secretary to the district committee of the...
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A Leap In The Dark
Spring 1943: A three-member group of resistance fighters flies from a Soviet military airport into t...
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Darbujan and Pandrhola
A poor miner, Kuba Dařbuján, cares for his wife Markýtka and eleven children. When a newborn arrives...
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'Okay, Boss...!'
Láda Pitras (Ludek Sobota) and Oto Vacák (Petr Nározný) founded in the company Pragokov a Research d...
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Higher Principle
During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretex...
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If a Thousand Clarinets
A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into...
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Martin a červené sklíčko
Children's detective stories were very successful in the 1960s, and the stories of Martin the crimin...
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Never Strike A Woman... Even with A Flower
Shortish forty-year old Ludvík Podzimek, lute and flute player in a Prague orchestra, is far from be...
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Kinoautomat
Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak...
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„Rakev ve snu viděti...“
The Ronov castle has been changed into a hotel, offering stylish facilities to its guests: weddings ...
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Cézar a detektívi
A comedic story about little Jurek, who, with the help of his aunt, unsuccessfully tries to hide the...
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The Five Sinners
The short story explores the often tragic impact of prejudice or suspicion that relies on the appear...
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Panenství a kriminál
An attractive and challenging 16-year-old girl has no shortage of admirers, but she becomes the caus...
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I Survived Certain Death
Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fig...
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The High Wall
Jitka is a 12-year-old girl who feels the first stirring of love. She becomes friends with a young m...
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One of Them Is the Murderer
Marek (Jirí Holý), formerly a driver of a long-distance lorry, has served his term for smuggling art...
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Lišáci – Myšáci a Šibeničák
Sliding, skiing, snow forts, snowball fights, in short, winter is the right season for the children ...
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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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The Plain Old Maid
At the end of the 1950s, some filmmakers attempted to escape the ideological dictates by turning to ...
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Fear
A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the ...
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The Death of Black King
Prague in the 1930s. A young, pretty girl gets on a crowded tram. She immediately catches the attent...
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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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September Nights
The commander of the military training camp, newly promoted Major Cibulka, keeps his subordinates in...
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No Magic from Tomorrow
Mr. Tau, the quiet and kind magician with a bowler hat and an umbrella, shows up unexpectedly on the...
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Kronika žhavého léta
A broadly drawn ideological epic set in the summer of 1947 in the borderlands of northern Bohemia: r...
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Pokus o vraždu
The main character of the story is Professor Trojan, the head of a Prague clinic, who is not experie...
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Smoke on the Potato Fields
In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marr...
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Almost King
A fairy tale about how those who have a heart and are not stingy will not fail. The most popular her...
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Zatykač na královnu
Captain Záruba investigates after an anonymous tip flags the seemingly extravagant lifestyle of Chem...
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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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Dvacátý devátý
In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as recon...
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Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
In medieval times, a horse merchant is forced by a noble to leave part of his stock as payment for c...
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Murder in the Excelsior Hotel
In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates ...
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Hotel Pacific
Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way...
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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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Monkey's Playtime
The fisherman Fuksa fishes in the creek an old bottle and he sells it to innkeeper Merta. When Merta...
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Dveře
A tale of neighbourly teasing and how dangerous it is to leave a door off its hinges in the hallway....
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Střílej oběma rukama
The specter of collectivization looms over Malšín. Young Čeněk Kotál returns to his native village a...
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Prince and the Evening Star
A wonderful fairytale about looking for love, defeating evil and learning some valuable moral lesson...
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The Pipes
This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous....
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Poklad byzantského kupce
A detective story revolving around an ancient treasure from the ninth century, believed to have been...
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Among Us Thieves
The story of a trio of released criminals that even prison re-education did not reform. They intend ...
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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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Alibi on the Lake
Miss Nováková reports to Major Tuma (Karel Höger) from the police about the disappearance of her roo...
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Desire
A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jas...
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All My Good Countrymen
The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958....
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Circus in the Circus
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and a...
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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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I'll Be Good, Old Man!
To the intolerant and bloody-minded Prague actor Bergner (Milos Kopecký) is the lead in Moliere's Mi...
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The Krakonos and the Skiers
Matej and Jenda, two of the eight children of the poor Pelc family in the Giant Mountains, help in a...
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Královský gambit
Wenceslas II, who already has adult children Eliška and Václav, refuses to marry the young Alžběta R...
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Boys Will Be Boys
Three friends - Tomás, Hubert and Jozka - are boys growing up in a little town. Tomás lives with his...
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Concert at the End of Summer
A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled...
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The Ninth Heart
Martin, a poor student, volunteers to go on a quest to find a cure for the princess Adriana, who is ...
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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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On the Tightrope
Káj Mick has always been called Kočka (Cat). He is a sensitive young man who reacts violently to the...
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Great Solitude
In southern Moravia, in the native village of Velka Samota, a ministry official returns from Prague ...
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Witchhammer
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confe...
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Romeo, Juliet and Darkness
Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building's att...
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Florián
A mobile chapel of St. Florian is moved every week between the villages of Zbořov and Spáňovice. The...
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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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Sign of the Cancer
When Dr. Hahn is found murdered in the hospital’s inspection room, investigators question several su...
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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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Tři zlaté vlasy děda Vševěda
There are fairy tales that appear on TV screens every Christmas and there are fairy tales that have ...
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Three Men Travelling
Three Men Travelling is billed as a loosely related sequel to Tri chlapi v chalupe (1963), sending o...
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The Dynamite Watcher
Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchm...
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Footprints
This early short by Jaromil Jireš anticipates the formal and stylistic experimentation that would ch...
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Kdo je kdo
Two young men, indistinguishably alike, decide to swap. But with one a popular singer and the other ...
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Three Wishes
The sad hero of the story, Petr, an ordinary lawyer in a construction company, is crowded into a sma...
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Long White Yard
The relationship between a mother and daughter living in a village, the confrontation of two lives -...
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Florenc 13,30
The plot of the film follows a bus ride on the Prague - Karlovy Vary route and the actions of the pe...
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A Girl Fit to Be Killed
The waitress Gita from the hotel "Bobí vrch" approaches her lover who has not left his wife yet and ...
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Today for the Last Time
Concert master Karel Mašek is a drunk, as well as engineer Danda and other regular guests of the pub...
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Šlechetný cowboy Sandy
In a small Texas town where cowboys lived their usual lives, local villain Bill Crooked Mouth and hi...
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Křižovatky
Eighteen-year-old Dalibor Daněk grew up in an orphanage, did not get an education and became involve...
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Zelené obzory
A young agricultural expert fails as the manager of a cattle farm on a state farm in the borderlands...
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První parta
The unfortunate 1930s also befell the student Standa Půlpán. For existential reasons, he had to aban...
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Neklidnou hladinou
The journey of the Třeboň paddlers to the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Helsinki (1952)....
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Všude žijí lidé
Even if a person grumbles about difficulties, he should realize that he will find a place where he d...
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The Pilgrimage to the Holy Virgin
Farmers get away from their arguments by embarking on a religious pilgrimage, enjoy a picnic en rout...
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Případ dr. Kováře
An ideologically-oriented film set in a prestigious medical sanatorium - a young doctor sympathizes ...
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Poslední výstřel
A drama set in the Vítkovice Ironworks at the end of the occupation. It depicts the struggle of Ostr...
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White Clouds
Autumn 1944, the Slovak National Uprising is suppressed and the fighters must withdraw to the mounta...
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Pochodně
Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly pa...
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Zkouška pokračuje
As a young actor František Lukávec and his teacher Vladimir Tuma became enemies. František insisted ...
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The Road Back
Three young men carry out a failed robbery of the box office of the Blaník cinema in Prague with tra...
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Hlavní výhra
A comedy about a young salesman Havelka, who gets his life's wish. He wins his dream car Spartacus i...
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Povodeň
The construction of the new dam deprived the ferryman Ryba of his trade. The new dam replaced the fe...
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A Suburban Romance
A young, unmarried woman finds herself a "little bit pregnant" and she tries to hide this fact from ...
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