Josef Vinklár

Dr. Braun is forbidden to practice medicine because he's a Jew living in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. He's old, seems resigned about the fate of the Jews, and even works in the Department of Confiscation of Jewish Property. One day a neighbor asks him to assist a wounded political fugitive. Dr. Braun reluctantly operates to remove the bullet, but warns that plenty of morphine will soon be needed in order to keep the man from screaming when he awakes, which would attract unwanted attention. (imdb)

This is an interesting docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, played here with elan by Josef Vinklar. The drama -- filled with many of Dvorak's compositions -- begins when the composer suddenly decides to cut a concert in London and return home. While on the train, flashbacks reveal his relationship to his wife Anna and her sister Josefina. (All Movie Guide)

After the death of her mother leaves her orphaned, teenaged Vladka rebuffs the assistance of her boyfriend's snobby family and sets out to find the father she has never known. Her quest takes her to a remote village in the dead of winter, where her father alternates engineering work on a drilling rig with bouts of serious drinking. An awkward reunion gives way to a hopeful attempt to become better acquainted over Christmas -- and an opportunity, perhaps, for dad to beat the bottle... (cinematheque)

One of the earliest narrative films to depict life in a Nazi ghetto.

A princess runs away from home in a disguise in order to escape a forced marriage. She ends up in the neighbouring kingdom as a kitchen servant.

Two scientists use their inherited fortune differently. One designs a beautiful town called Fortuna, while the second builds huge factories to make munitions known as Steel City. (imdb)

Franta Hronek is very dedicated to work and flying. The talented air-plane designer Ruda Kolá? is also an excellent pilot, however he is not disciplined and is arrogant with his colleagues. He even starts flirting with the glass cutter Lída, even though he knows that she is Franta's girlfriend. By not servicing the windlass properly, Ruda causes an accident with Franta's glider. Lída, who is the only witness to the accident, doesn't reveal Ruda's guilt. The event shakes Ruda so much that he

A comedy about a young locksmith who pretends to be an airline pilot.

When former supervisor Evžen Huml, now on disability pension, returns from the spa to the small flat where he lives with the rest of his family in the small room behind the bathroom, he decides to move out of Prague to the peaceful countryside. He buys a cottage in the village of Třešňová, but there is one problem — there is still one former tenant in his dream cottage, Bohouš Císař, a pensioner too, who doesn't want to leave. Their adventures begin. (imdb)