Rudolf Hrusínský

An adaptation of the famous play.

The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict - but also very just. His weakness is his interest in young women. (imdb)

József Schrevek has supernatural abilities. Feeling that he's approaching his death he wants his son István to learn it from him.

A study of the Czech poet Karel Hynek Mácha.

Comedy about the people who inhabit a small town. For years the overbearing Pavek has endured Otik, the "town idiot," sharing his meals and the front seat of their dump truck. But Otik is such a sweet-natured fool that Pavek, exasperated as he becomes, always relents on his threats to find another partner. This Laurel and Hardy-like pair are at the heart of a comedy which finds humor in an abundance of everyday situations.

Detective Trachta investigates the mysterious case of Mr. Bierhanzel, a wealthy factory owner that made his fortune by selling miraculous salves against balding, who has suddenly disappeared and noone has a clue as to what could have happened to him...

It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants of Kersko (Kersko is a small woody area full of cottages and roods). These people are both simple and sensitive, they have their own pleasures (e.g. Leli is a collector of cheap, but inutile things) and the greatest delight of all of them is a hunting. (imdb)

With the war over, Pankrac, Servac, and Bimbac (named after the three "ice saints", whose days fall in succession around the period of the first frosts) are left to enjoy an impoverished retirement. Roughing it in a wood one night, the three all wake up at separate times from each other. Once roused, they each meet one of three dwarves on their way to the nose tree to meet up with each other... (ce-review.org)

A film about a local brewery director, his wife and their life in the brewery. (imdb)

Hair-raising comedy about an old castle and its new specters, based on a novel by Jules Verne. (imdb)

A scrupulous scientist is in the throes of a serious ethical dilemma after creating a highly-efficient explosive which may bring immeasurable suffering to mankind.

Housing is still a major problem in the Czech Republic. If you have a flat, you are OK, the rent is controlled and thus relatively cheap, but if you don't, you have no chance of getting one. Unless you pay an enormous amount for one of the very few newly built flats - quite out of proportion with your local salary. Also, if you move out or die and a relative is not already registered as living with you, the flat might be lost! One way for ordinary people who need to move is to swap flats.

When the famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy - the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp... (imdb)

This 1978 film, set in 1907, is a tribute commemorating the 80th year of Czechoslovak filmmaking. Among the accomplishments of Czechoslovak filmmakers of the period are, the improvement on the Lumière camera and the creation of a commercially viable indigenous cinema years before Berlin. Czechoslovak films were sufficiently distinctive and plentiful to make a notable contribution to world cinema of the time. In this movie, the filming of several one-reel movies of the period is re-enacted.

Old doctor Meluzín is helping pregnant woman with her life.

Set in World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world. (imdb)

It is the year 1647 and the war has been raging for almost thirty years. Poor and dilapidated is the stronghold of the knight Václav Rynda of Loucka (Rudolf Hrusínský) and so is his clothing. (imdb)

Prague in the early 1950's. Bourgeois elements are being re-educated by working in a scrapyard full of the detritus of industrial society. (imdb)

Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... (imdb)

This gentle parody of romantic melodramas centers on the romantic exploits of a portly middle-aged office clerk who marries a beautiful woman from another town. It took a lot of courage for the shy, awkward fellow to propose to her, and she accepted but insisted on remaining in Prague. She also tells him that a childhood trauma prevents her from having sex. (allmovie.com)

In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died nearby and a sexual motive was proved in the case of her murder. In the case of the nurse, the motives are not so clear. Two criminologists from Prague collect all available leads and question the villagers. (imdb)

A respected grocery shop employee in Prague is covering up for her manager's misconduct with whom she is having an affair; however, things will get complicated when a thorough auditor pays a visit. (imdb)

Film is situated in a small town Komonice in the 60's, the time of communism where the only party, represented by chariman of people's committee and his secretary instead of taking care of the people's needs they build up a fountain. There's a castle in the Komonice and according to a legend there is good ghost in the castle - White lady. She emerges from the painting on the wall when someone speaks out magic formula.

The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself. (imdb)

When a man stops at a motel one evening in 1961, his tormenting behavior drives one of the people present at the motel to remember his experiences in a concentration camp during WWII. (Letterboxd)

The second part of Karel Steklý's adaptation of "The Good Soldier Schweik".

An uproarious sendup of war and military life. Schweik, the good soldier, never fails to want to do the "right" thing, even if his good intentions destroy his superiors and bring down the army. (facets video)

The story takes place in a town called "Lázně Džbery pod Skalou" (703 m above sea level) in 1925. The Dyndery councilor family arrives at the spa with their two daughters, Věra and Alena. They traditionally stay in the guesthouse "U kamenného stolu". Mrs. Boženka Tatrmužová, the wife of the innkeeper, comes to welcome them to the coach.