Václav Švec Movies

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

If a girl has such an uninteresting occupation that she sells flowers, she likes to indulge in daydreaming, where she can experience unsuspected...

Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.

Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central...

Two poor students, Strnad and Křepelka, console themselves with the fact that Křepelka is to inherit, but it later turns out that the...

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

A medium-length story about the birth of a father and son friendship.

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 Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, beggars arouse sympathy, the Salvation Army tries...

Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly paid workers resemble torches because their...

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...

The foolish Pedro is supposed to marry the beautiful Rosita, who is also attracted to the adventurer Pancho - during his journey to see her, Pancho...

The sad hero of the story, Petr, an ordinary lawyer in a construction company, is crowded into a small apartment in Žižkov with his wife...

A new teacher with high standards and a strong sense of duty replaces an easy grader. Once bad grades begin to pile up, a product of his...

A Czech satirical comedy, filmed according to a script by the State Prize laureate Jiří Marek based on several of his satirical short...

The young worker Helena Pokorná and her widowed father are employed in the same factory. The father is spending his holidays at home in Prague...

Inspector Cadek from the 13th police station should keep an eye on the released safe-cracker nicknamed The Cat. He rightly suspects that Cat will go...

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.

Cooperative members are harvesting crops, trying to get new water piping installed and preparing to plough away the field boundaries in autumn. Local...