Otakar Brousek
Birthday: 1924-09-28
Place of Birth: Krhanice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Waterloo
In the tense dramatic situation of a June night in 1815, a few hours before a battle that seems lost...
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Vítězný lid
February 1948. The struggle of decisive social forces for the heart of Europe....
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Sólo pro starou dámu
After many decades in Germany, Marie Hahn will come to Prague to meet her relatives and friends. She...
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Trasa
Experiences of a Tatra factory driver during demanding load tests of Tatra 148 trucks in extremely h...
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Operation Bororo
A man and a woman from a different planet come to the Earth to get a cure for a disease that is appa...
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Vánoční koncert se souborem Virtuosi di Praga
Live concert from the Rudolfinum with accompanying verbal poetic characteristics between movements....
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Blues pro EFB
An image and music collage - a cinema concert - guided by a young sound engineer David, for whom the...
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The Tale of John and Mary
Young knight John travels the world in search of fame and fortune, but also to help others and prove...
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Svítalo celou noc
The Czech film Svítalo All Night was made to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the liberation of C...
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Black Saturday
In this crime story, surprisingly, neither the all-powerful criminals nor the spies or saboteurs are...
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Lidé jako ty
A "fairly ordinary and mundane" working day in various operations of large steel mills......
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Kohout plaší smrt
A group of saboteurs search for a weapons cache hidden by the Nazi army. Beskydy in the summer of 19...
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Tereza
Ing. Bernard announces that his wife has not returned from visiting relatives in Berlin. Lieutenant ...
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Dark Sun
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explo...
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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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Spanilá jízda
In the Hussite times, religious truth was sifted even on the tips of weapons. When in 1430 the Hussi...
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Lov na mamuta
A young man tries to enter the building of the Mammoth Cybernetic Supermachines Research Institute a...
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Třiatřicet stříbrných křepelek
A psychological study of the life of a woman, a working mother of two young children. The film captu...
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90° in the Shade
In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. A...
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Karel Zeman for Children
Seventy-year-old filmmaker Karel Zeman recapitulated his thirty years of work in the field of animat...
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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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Larks on a String
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work...
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Andělská tvář
France, mid-19th century. Church bells ring out in alarm; a monastery is on fire. In the ensuing cha...
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Jak v Bratrouchově vyzráli na hastrmana
A water sprite settled in a mountain stream. He stops the water and catches fish. So the frightened ...
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The Great Movie Robbery
The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary o...
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Radúz and Mahulena
While hunting, Prince Radúz of Maguria wanders into the rival kingdom of the Tatra King, Stojmír. He...
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Julián odpadlík
In 363, somewhere in Mesopotamia, on a campaign against the Persians, the emperor Julian, who had su...
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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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Murder in the Excelsior Hotel
In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates ...
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Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti
A New Year's Eve television variety show from late 1979....
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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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Jakou barvu má láska
Cyril Dadák (Václav Postránecký), a TV reporter falls in love at first sight with a young engineer M...
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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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Známost sestry Aleny
A psychological drama about a nurse and a seriously ill car racer and factory driver......
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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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Prague Duet
Dr. Lauren is staying in Prague for a conference and falls in love with Czech writer Jiri Kolmar....
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Záchvěv strachu
Getting out of prison doesn't mean being free. After the bloody suppression of the Prague Revolution...
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Město nic neví
Three detective stories from industrial Ostrava. Police search in vain for a missing 16-year-old gir...
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Pomerančový kluk
A quarrel between divorced waitress Mája and her fifteen-year-old son Petr ends with the boy physica...
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Noc klavíristy
The problematic protagonist is the head designer of a housing association who wants to make a profit...
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The Infinity Castle
Technical school student Pavel Brychta, arrives at a youth correctional facility located within a ch...
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Evropa tančila valčík
Otakar Vávra dedicated his latest film to events accompanying the devastation of the first World War...
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How to Dupe a Lawyer
Attorney Horic is a specialist for cases connected with motoring. He approaches to his work unconven...
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Every Man for Yourself
Georges Flavier, once renowned Parisian hairdresser, lives alone since the death of his son and the ...
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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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Zločin na Zlenicích hradě
The thrilling story begins in 1318, during the reign of John of Luxembourg, when the Czech nobility ...
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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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Paleta lásky
The years of Mánes' studies at art schools and on the period when the mature and distinctive artist ...
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My Brother Has a Cute Brother
Honza Pavelka (Jan Hrusínský) wins the junior motorbike speed races. His thirteen-year-old brother M...
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Hrad stínů
Prince Thomas longed to prove to himself and his royal parents that he was truly an adult. And on th...
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The Wonderful Years That Sucked
Capturing the dark humor of Czech author Michal Viewegh's chronicle of life after the Velvet Revolut...
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The Secret of a Great Narrator
The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not ...
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Den, kdy nevyšlo slunce
At the beginning of this detective story, the body of Martin Horák, owner of a car repair shop, is f...
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Úplně vyřízený chlap
Ostrava - Kunčice , 1953: on the same day as the manifestation funeral for J. V. Stalin, the funeral...
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The Secret of the Gold Buddha
A crime story set in the second half of the 19th century. Krasl, a Prague schoolteacher, is searchin...
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Year of the Revolution 1848
The Czech revival movement is divided at the end of the first half of the 19th century. While the ol...
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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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Kat nepočká
In 1944, the popular film actress Hlínová is arrested by the Gestapo for sheltering a Resistance man...
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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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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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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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Svatby pana Voka
Czech nobleman Petr Vok of Rozmberk (Milos Kopecký) is no longer so young, but his amatory adventure...
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Odysseus and the Stars
A group of children are investigating a chain of mysterious events during the seventies....
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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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Nevěsta k zulíbání
A love story of a couple of mature people of completely different characters, who lived and worked s...
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Strakatí andělé
Three stories (Gabriela, Eda and Jana), two of which are dedicated to girls. They share a common mot...
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Horoucí srdce
The years 1851-1856: events from the life of the writer Božena Němcová, who, because of her free-thi...
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How Man Learned to Fly
A short, humorous history of aviation based on Kamil Lhoták's book "Balloons, Wings, Propellers."...
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Muž v osidlech
A painter, whose art and views diverge considerably from the conventional society of a small America...
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Malý partyzán
Thirteen-year-old Jenda, whose father is the leader of an illegal movement in a small town at the en...
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Dva šlechtici z Verony
Two friends are living in Verona, Valentino and Proteo. Proteo professes his love to the charming Ju...
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Racek Is Late
Baker Jan Racek (Vladimír Repa) is a very hard-working and sensible man. His great passion is pigeon...
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In the Valley of Neretva
It shows the Neretva river from its source to the shores of the Adriatic Sea. The document also capt...
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No Entrance
Two stories from the lives of border guards. In the story "The Pursuit", an experienced border guard...
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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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Všemi hlasy proti válce
Documentary about the Peace Congress held in Vienna in 1952. The film shows the opening speech of th...
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Zde jsou lvi
The rude and bitter mining engineer Štěrba strongly opposes the proposal of his colleague Ing. Vocho...
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