Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one...

Jiří Suchý recalls two of the most prominent artistic and creative figures in Czechoslovak culture of the last century: Jiří...

Five short stories: The Master and the Twentieth Disciple; Every Week is Sunday; It's Boniface's Fault; The Raggedy Song; The Spider's Web.

Pavlata, the director of an educational institution for juvenile offenders, will push for the early release of Pepík Adamec, whom he respects...

The TV fairy tale based on a book of tales and legends from Prague's Old Town. Its author, writer E. Petiška, set the story at the end of the...

After arriving at the mysterious castle, the university professor begins to encounter a sequence of mysterious events, to which he reacts with his...

The story of Sebastien, a seriously ill 25-year-old, and his mother, whose lives were also affected by the events of 1968 in Czechoslovakia.

Modern Japan-inspired fairy tale movie story.

The lead character is a young woman who becomes close with a colleague of her husband. She finds herself at an important crossroad in life and...

A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts,...

A communist agent, who has successfully caught on with the stupidly gullible American secret services, does not have it easy - he is threatened with...

The 19-year-old volleyball player has been bedridden for a long time due to a spinal injury. The self-confident and energetic girl has time to recap...

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find...

Miller’s daughter Zuzanka Vojířová, betrothed to Ondřej Zachar, hesitates before marriage when Lord Peter Vok of Rožmberk...

Jan Werich, as the Spanish viceroy in Lima, Peru, at the end of the eighteenth century, is not only afflicted with gout but also doubts about the...

An attractive and challenging 16-year-old girl has no shortage of admirers, but she becomes the cause of a small-town problem when she accuses her...

Although the title would suggest it, this film has nothing to do with fairy tales at all: it takes place in the North Moravian border region just...

Three arias from Antonín Dvořák´s fairytale opera Rusalka turned in to a movie, sung by Gabriela Beňačková (Rusalka),...

A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth.

Radúz, the son of a Magurian king, has lost his way hunting in the territory of the Tatra King Stojmír. He learns from his loyal...

In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelry robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems...

Poetic story of a proletarian couple's relationship in the years of economic crisis and unemployment.

Version of the fairy tale "The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs"; unlike this one, the young charcoal-burner's son, who has been prophesied as the...

Olga finds her husband Karel Brand, whom she has just divorced, shot dead after returning from the cinema. It appears to be a clear case of suicide,...

The story of old Hana, who devoted her entire life to gardens. She designed them, planted them, cared for them, lived for them. Now she is old, sick,...

The eccentric colonel's wife decides to take her recently deceased husband's urn home from the cemetery, which gives her essentially kind but...

This exemplary "psychological drama" depicts the difficulties with which a new socialist mindset is born. Director Jiří Sequens warns against...

Three stories (Gabriela, Eda and Jana), two of which are dedicated to girls. They share a common motif of disillusionment when the protagonists...

A romantic comedy about love and life of young French teacher Helena.

Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides in her closest friend the owl. When she comes...

Řehoř lives a contented life. His wife Evženie does not. After sixty years of marriage, eighty-year-old Evženie comes to her granddaughter,...

The heroine of the story Struck by Lightning is a divorced teacher with grown-up children. She has been living alone for a long time, finding solace...

Sňatky z rozumu was a Czechoslovak television programme which was first broadcast in 1968. The programme was directed by František Filip.

Sanitka was a Czech television, drama series, first broadcast in 1984 and eleven episodes were made. It starred Jaromír Hanzlík,...