Bedřich Karen

A small town is one day visited by a priest who is there on a secret mission. He is a member of the Inquisition sent to investigate the activities of...

Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I --...

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

The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I.

A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it...

In late 19th century Czech-speaking Bohemia, oppressed workers at German-owned mines and foundries revolt against their harsh working conditions....

A student commits suicide out of unhappy love to a married man; story is recounted in retrospective by a "judge" who asks the audience to decide who...

A biographical film about the traveler Emil Holub, conceived as an illustrative story of an exceptional man, who, however, encounters the disinterest...

A biographical film about the famous Czech painter Mikoláš Aleš, portrayed as part of the vanguard of the working class and a...

American agents hijack a plane on the Ostrava-Prague route to launch a campaign against the People's Democratic Czechoslovakia. The plane lands in...

The film, in individual episodes, captures the fate of Bedřich Smetana from 1856 until the end of his life, from his young years until the moment...

After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving their homes to help build the...

In the last days of the war, American planes bomb a synthetic gasoline plant in the Sudetenland. The workers are then faced with the enormous task of...

The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The film...

Colonel Švec (original Czech title: Plukovník Švec) is a 1930 Czechoslovak historical war drama. It was a major patriotic...

A biographical film about a Czech mechanic and designer who was the first in the Czech lands to construct a steam car.

Janosík, a friar retrained as a bandit, becomes the farmers' symbol of resistance and fight against the feudal conditions.