František Filipovský Movies

We learn that the greatest virtue of socialist competition is collective cooperation. This is what the young, physically fit assembler refuses to...

In this crime story, surprisingly, neither the all-powerful criminals nor the spies or saboteurs are pursued, as was once common. The plot is almost...

A small Czech town in the 1860s. The townspeople once made a fortune from the proceeds of gold mines that are now flooded. However, they do not want...

Karel, a young man with an unknown past, but with a defined set of values and an ideal moral code, arrives in the village in the middle of the...

Mist on the Moors examines fates of just about a few people. Their stories are outlined in a short space of time and are a symbolic representation of...

Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertising slides and a "newspaper", we see "the...

The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.

Early Days follows the early life of famous Czech writer Alois Jirásek. Jirásek had already developed his own view of the history of...

Josef Laufer portrays Egon Erwin Kisch in two daring journalistic adventures: in “Zuřivý reportér,” Kisch goes...

Two marriageable girls, Princess Disperanda and her maid Káča, sign a betrothal with their own blood in exchange for fairy-tale grooms....

In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint....

A revue grotesque full of humour and surprises, awarded three main prizes at the Montreux Festival.

The story tells of a village girl, falsely accused by her sister-in-law of the murder of her illegitimate child. The unfortunate girl ends up in...

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery...

A few bus-loads of holidaymakers from the agricultural cooperative on a day trip arrive to see the show at the Slavia Circus. But, they have bad...

The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets.