Ladislav Potměšil Movies

A group of children from 1930s Prague follow the news about the polar expedition of the Chelyuskin, whose members find themselves stranded on a...

Based on a play by French playwright Georges Feydeau. This comedy, often defined as a farce, has an incredible pace, with its transformations...

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...

Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state.

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

A short film about Prague, Prague residents, and the beginning of the weekend.

Who is this confident man who, with unusual elegance and surprising professionalism, began working at the reception desks of the highest government...

A group of soldiers is supposed to ensure the smooth nighttime passage of the military convoy through Prague, but things turn out differently....

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

The film is a concert of well-known actors from an alcohol rehab where a middle-aged man has taken refuge to get rid of his addiction. In the rehab,...

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...

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...

In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic...

Jirka Horáček, a teenager living with his father on a Pilsen housing estate, spends his free time at discos with friends. One night he...

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...

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...