Zdeněk Ornest Movies

In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building...

Nineteen-year-old Pavel Kříž spends all his free time in Prague's arcades, bistros and discos with a group of thieves called Roby....

Pan Tau, the friend of all children, now also helps the adults. A movie producer is in trouble and decides to shoot another Pan-Tau movie. But the...

Sudetenland, May 1945. A group of retreating German soldiers capture a group of young female workers, totally deployed in a chemical factory. He...

Biography of Karel Čapek.

A story about young girl Hanka who doesn't have parents and is forced to spend most of her time in a hospital bed.

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

A young waiter named Michal gets into trouble when he is robbed of his daily takings, which he was supposed to deliver to the bank. He's on...

Czechoslovak counter-espionage intercepts a coded message from the West German secret service ordering death for an unknown person on Czech territory.

The story takes place in a metallurgical plant where important technological changes are being made while the plant is in full operation. However, a...

A directors autobiography about his debut during the rise of socialism.

Dana Martinová, a young woman of loose morals, dies at the hands of a mentally unstable young man, Pavel Zach. In a fit of jealousy, he could...