Ivan Trojan

Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of matchmaker and occasionally helps to put together some of his friends. He helps to separate his friend Hanka from Peter, an announcer for an independent radio station who tries to capture "real" life by recording the moments from "reality" and playing them over the air.

Set in the 1940s in the Czech lands occupied by the Nazis, Zelary tells the story of a clash between two different worlds and two different people. It is the story of an extraordinary relationship, of fear, misgivings, suspicion and especially of the love that forms out of antagonism. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Standa is a foul ball. The fate has been harsh to him but he took all the hard knocks without much fuzz so far. Being released from a prison, he believes everything would change for the better now. His former boss Zdeněk owes him a considerable sum of money and Standa hopes it will help him to fulfill his dreams. But unfortunately he hooks up with Ondřej who's even a bigger loony than him. (onehandcantclap.com)

Adapted from Zelenka's own play. Petr Hanek (Trojan), 33, has lost his job and his girlfriend, Jana (Šulajová). His attempts to win her back are complicated by the increasingly bizarre situations he finds himself in. Petr's eccentric mother (Divíšková), meanwhile, attempts to snap Petr's father (Krobot) out of his emotional detachment, with unexpected results. (prague.tv)

Vaclav, the village loser, in his 40's bordering on autism, lives with his widowed mother on the outskirts of the village. He is seen by villagers as the local fool, nothing but a constant pain for them, but there is a skeleton in the village closet concerning his father's death. He gets no mercy from his brother Frantisek either. The two forever compete for the attention of their mother, and now even for Frantisek's mistress Lida... (imdb)

A drama company from Prague arrives in Krakow to present a stage adaptation of Dostoevsky's famous novel at the city's alternative theatre festival; the production is to be staged in an unusual venue- the local steelworks. During rehearsals, the drama on stage spills over into real life. (leedsfilm.com)

This epic, long-form docudrama by acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland chronicles the political, legal, and moral fallout that followed after Czech student protestor Jan Palach set himself on fire in protest against government repression in 1969. (tiff.net)

In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?

The breathtaking story of a man gifted with exceptional abilities set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties. (imdb)

A series based on real criminal cases of Czech gendarmes from the 1920s and 1930s. (imdb)

Policeman Filip Marvan has a serious traffic accident. He wakes up 30 years earlier in 1980s Czechoslovakia as a member of the State Police, investigating cases with a team of detectives. (imdb)