Václav Kaňkovský
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Oddechový čas (1978)
The drama of a man for whom work has become the only meaning of life. His cold and impersonal manner arouses the disapproval of his colleagues and...

The Secret of Steel City (1979)
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

Skandál v Gri-Gri baru (1979)
Two young returnees from the First World War face a difficult future because they cannot find work. One eventually finds a job as an electrician, the...

On the Poachers Trail (1979)
Second part of the trilogy. Vasek is expected to go to Bulgaria for a holiday with his parents during the summer vacation, but the boy finds the...

Deštivý den (1962)
One busy day for a busy woman: worrying about children, the responsible work of a nurse in the centre and housework. In the evening, her husband is...

Behind the Sloe-Bush (1981)
Third part of the trilogy. Vaska again is visiting his grandfather living in Bohemian Forest and understands the importance of guarding nature.

Handlíři (1964)
JZD Hořičky is one of the best cooperatives in the district. Its chairman, who knows how to get advice and money wherever he can, is supported by...

Lucie (1964)
The leader of the fast-track workers' party is appointed worker director of the unprofitable Lucie mine. The wrong decisions he makes to increase...

The Last One Will Go to Hell (1982)
A historical film that takes place on the eve of the thirty year war combines aspects of fairy-tales with historical dramas, fencing with a child...

A Leap In The Dark (1964)
Spring 1943: A three-member group of resistance fighters flies from a Soviet military airport into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to...

Stud (1968)
The drama offers Arnošt Pánek, chairman of the National Committee, as the protagonist of the story. Pánek is disturbed by news...

Burglar and Umbrella (1971)
In the morning twilight of Prague, the dead body of the safe-breaker Toufar is found floating on the river Vltava with a knife in his back. Police...

Legenda, the Robber (1973)
It is 1905. The police director gets Jindrich Legenda (Eduard Cupák) shadowed as, yet Legenda had served his sentence for a burglary, the...

Kronika žhavého léta (1973)
A broadly drawn ideological epic set in the summer of 1947 in the borderlands of northern Bohemia: reactionary elements plot to undermine postwar...

Levé křídlo (1984)
The war will also affect children's games. The children hide a French boy who has managed to escape from a prison transport. Language differences...

Záchvěv strachu (1984)
Getting out of prison doesn't mean being free. After the bloody suppression of the Prague Revolution in 1848, one of its participants, the writer...

Zuzana Vojířová (1983)
Miller’s daughter Zuzanka Vojířová, betrothed to Ondřej Zachar, hesitates before marriage when Lord Peter Vok of Rožmberk...

Džusový román (1988)
An ordinary country girl is entering life with only a very vague idea of her future. Dissatisfied with her monotonous job in the village, she...

Looking Back (1969)
Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful novel Looking Back. He meets with the novel's...

The Treasure of Count Chamaré (1985)
In 1781, Countess Marie Karolina shelters an influential Abbé, a former Jesuit who vehemently opposes progress. Only Dr. Kamenický...

September Nights (1957)
The commander of the military training camp, newly promoted Major Cibulka, keeps his subordinates in line. Because of an unexpected emergency, he...

Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker (1987)
Pohádka o mladém ševcovském tovaryšovi Jírovi, který si vyrobil z jemné kůže...

The Murderer Hides His Face (1966)
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...

The Borrowed Face (1965)
It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration...

Mary (1964)
For a long time, Marie cannot admit to the break-up of her long marriage and believes that her husband will come back to her...

Christmas with Elisabeth (1968)
Surly solitary truck driver is given an assistant for his daily rounds: a young woman with a fondness for mini-skirts and boys, fresh out of prison.

Blue Planet (1980)
A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.

On the Comet (1970)
When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swathe of humanity, along with it.

Šílený kankán (1983)
During the First World War, the crooks Scholef and Krumka sell weapons on the black market. After the collapse of the monarchy they try their hand at...

Zelené obzory (1962)
A young agricultural expert fails as the manager of a cattle farm on a state farm in the borderlands... The attempt at a realistic view of the...

Chain (1981)
Carefree young nurse Marta learns upon her husband's death that he was involved in all manner of criminal activity, which puts her life in danger.

Neklidnou hladinou (1963)
The journey of the Třeboň paddlers to the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Helsinki (1952).

Mezi nebem a zemí (1958)
Working in the city office is a bitter clerk who believes he has only 14 days to live and so he bravely stands up to his bureaucratic director.

Escape from the Shadows (1959)
This exemplary "psychological drama" depicts the difficulties with which a new socialist mindset is born. Director Jiří Sequens warns against...

Lion with a White Mane (1987)
The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his...

Můj hříšný muž (1987)
A Czech film about love and marital crisis as a work injury.

Zuřivý reportér (1988)
Josef Laufer portrays Egon Erwin Kisch in two daring journalistic adventures: in “Zuřivý reportér,” Kisch goes undercover...

Svědek umírajícího času (1991)
At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), dedicated to the Rudolphine-era...

Thirty Cases of Major Zema (1976)
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the...

The Physician of a Dying Time (1984)
Series about the life of Renaissance anatomist, scholar and politic Johannes Jessenius. Already legendary series today, was produced by Czechoslovak...

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

The Train of Childhood and Expectation (1989)
A story of a little girl Verka and her life during the beginning of WWII. Based on Vera Sládková novels.