Ladislav Potměšil Movies

The year is 1943. The war is raging between the Germans and the Allies in North Africa. A truck with a Czech crew, Lieutenant Navara and six...

An extraordinary event occurs at a rural pharmacy. Pharmacy manager Sychra discovers that one of the pharmacy staff has mixed peroxide into the...

Several of the works of writer Bohumil Říha have been filmed. This novel by the pro-regime writer also inspired a children’s film,...

Lying in the construction industry used to be a criminal offence, but skilful people could do a lot of things. This somewhat embarrassing tragicomedy...

An anthology in three jazz-infused tales: an idealistic student’s romance with a pragmatic trumpeter; a vibraphonist’s urgent journey...

Two happily married couple, Michal and Blanka, experience a regrettable misunderstanding: the wife leaves home with their young son, but...

The Lakota king is so stingy that he wants to marry his only daughter, Princess Forgetful, to Prince Bohatu, even though the girl doesn't like the...

The fate of father and son Horáček, but this time they switched roles. Jirka has married, settled down and grown up, while his father is...

Caesar is the name of the dog with which a little boy, only seven years old, sets out on a great quest to find his mother. She once gave him the dog...

The two heroes of the film's story - the decent but dry engineer Zárub and the marriage swindler Majer - are granted this wish by the...

A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on...

Somewhere in a fairy-tale land lies a small, not very wealthy, but charming little kingdom. It is also the Czech kingdom - Velký...

The miller's servant Martin dared to free the princess, who had been cursed into a fish by the Moon Prince. He took revenge on her for refusing to...

Inspired by two fairy tales by Jan Drda, this film tells the story of young Matěj, who enjoys a good riddle. When he is chased off by a farmer...

A beautiful, underachieving, 18-year-old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy, and takes a young girl under her wing.

The film, which opens with students arriving at a police academy, is a crazy comedy that is more a series of zany episodes and jokes than a coherent...