Jan Oliva Movies

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...

A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

There are fairy tales that appear on TV screens every Christmas and there are fairy tales that have somewhat fallen into oblivion and few people...

Alienation between the closest relatives is always a serious disorder of family judgment. Father and son not only do not see each other, but one does...

A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.

Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it is a twelve-year-old village boy who experiences...

In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a...

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and...

A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and...

Alois, manager of a remote mountain inn, loses his maid when she can’t stand his oversized Saint Bernard, Bohouš. When a ravenous guest...

Seven days, or rather evenings and nights, in the life of Jenka (Stanislava Bartosová), a young good-looking nurse. Jenka is attractive to men...

Police discover Eva Nejtková dead in her apartment and her husband Zdeněk unconscious from a shotgun wound. Captain Hora leads the...

A television adaptation of the memories of one of the first important Czech actors, Jindřich Mošna, about his difficult theatrical...

In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died...

The commander of the military training camp, newly promoted Major Cibulka, keeps his subordinates in line. Because of an unexpected emergency, he...