Jarní vody 1968

I Survived Certain Death 1960

Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work in quarries, on the cruel torture of the Nazis and prison solidarity that helped him survive.

The Black Battalion 1958

A fictionalized account of Czech soldiers who fought for the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam.

Jan Hus 1955

Jan Hus is a 1954 Czechoslovak film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most famous works of the Czechoslovak director, completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957).

Velké dobrodružství 1952

Mikoláš Aleš 1952

Posel úsvitu 1951

Distant Journey 1949

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.

The Strike 1947

In late 19th century Czech-speaking Bohemia, oppressed workers at German-owned mines and foundries revolt against their harsh working conditions. Made shortly after World War II as Czechoslovakia was falling to communism, the film resonates in Czech resentment of the German occupation.

Housle a sen 1947

Hrdinové mlčí 1946

V horách duní 1946

Paklíc 1944

The White Disease 1937

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery speeches of a dictator, the bacillus of a highly destructive form of leprosy has spread. It is called morbus Tshengi, or popularly „white disease“. The only one who has developed an effective cure for it is a physician of the poor named Galén. But he refuses to reveal the secret of his cure as long as the powerful destroy human lives through wars.

Studentská máma 1935

Tonka of the Gallows 1930

A prostitute in an act of pity is keeping chaste company with a condemned man through the night before he is to be hung.