Viktor Očásek Movies

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

Working in the city office is a bitter clerk who believes he has only 14 days to live and so he bravely stands up to his bureaucratic director.

The short story film follows the fate of three young men who will soon have to decide what to do with their lives. The first "Poet", an aspiring...

A crime story set in the second half of the 19th century. Krasl, a Prague schoolteacher, is searching for a statue of the Golden Buddha, which is...

The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I.

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

The Counter-Reformation period: Myslivec Machovec is forced by representatives of the Jesuit order to flee his home for his religious beliefs. His...

František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and grows increasingly alienated, even as his...

In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates the murder of a wealthy woman, Mrs...

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

Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertising slides and a "newspaper", we see "the...

A biographical film about the famous Czech painter Mikoláš Aleš, portrayed as part of the vanguard of the working class and a...

Miloš Kopecký comments on himself in the roles of restaurant guests who suffer from various social ills. This satirical parade of...

Screen adaptation of Julius Fucik's story about communist fighters.

Second half of the 19th century. In a small town in South Bohemia, fifth-former Jan Ratkin is living through the confusions of first love together...

Elén, a girl living with her mother and stepfather in a secluded forest, has a great singing talent. On her twenty-first birthday, she runs...

The historical television play was written based on Vančura's Pictures from the History of the Czech Nation and takes place against the backdrop...

Early Days follows the early life of famous Czech writer Alois Jirásek. Jirásek had already developed his own view of the history of...

Despite her father's protests, Vlasta Tomešová wants to become a tractor driver. However, before her first plowing, she falls in love...