Vlastimil Čaněk Movies

A political drama dealing with the issues of contemporary construction and highlighting the various relationships within the party apparatus.

When former criminal Gaudl discovers the strange behaviour of his son-in-law Professor Horacek, he becomes worried about his daughter Hedwig and...

A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", Karas kills a woman he raped some time ago in...

The town is waking up. The bus driver Josef Král is saying goodbye to his wife Vera who is in a state of advanced pregnancy. At the rolling...

In the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, a starving family find hope in a charismatic hotel owner. Lured by the prospect of a free dinner, they...

In the 1980s, a number of films were made about teenagers. At first they dealt with the confusing search for life orientation, the difficult entry...

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

Three short stories about the people and folk around the shaft.

African student Omar would like to return home to Angola, but he is enrolled in a three-year postgraduate research fellowship at a clinic in Prague....

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...

A short story film in which the first story takes place at the end of the German occupation, when a resistance fighter is arrested while transporting...

Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exchange his krona for deutschemarks so that he can...

Rock concerts used to be suspicious. They were supposed to attract all sorts of strange individuals who meant no good. In this case, it's a pair of...

Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Honza Linhart, who had an accident, and a young...

At the beginning, the newly arrived soldiers form a musical theatre troupe to escape the humiliation of the older ones. They vow that they will be...

A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.

A dramatic story about the devastation of the environment and human character.

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...

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