Vladimír Novotný Movies

A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in...

The story of the piper Švanda, who went abroad for money and fame, but whose love for his homeland ultimately wins.

Delinquent youths wander aimlessly and commit mischief. Few, however, manage to break free from the influence of such a gang. One of the lucky ones...

A story set in revolutionary China, whose proletariat suffers and starves, but refuses to be passive and rises to decisive resistance. Even the...

How do you wake up a sleeping puppet? Made by Trnka in collaboration with actor and puppeteer Josef Pehr, this winsome mix of live action and puppet...

In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned...

It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish...

A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a...

A documentary about the 11th All-Sokol Rally in Prague in 1948, focusing in the first part on performances by schoolchildren, youth days, and their...

Jean-Paul is a Frenchman who yearns to live in communist Czechoslovakia. His wish is granted when, mistaken as a masseur of a French boating team, he...

A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an...

Three Men Travelling is billed as a loosely related sequel to Tri chlapi v chalupe (1963), sending our country protagonists set out from their family...

Documentary by Jan Kadar

The first full-length puppet film made by Jiri Trnka. Like the painter Ales who illustrated the national songs, Trnka depicts the traditional customs...

Documentary by Jan Kadar