Ilja Prachař Movies

In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal...

The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.

A group of wealthy American Jewish businessmen have been captured by the SS and are told that they are to be traded to the American army for several...

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot),...

Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and...

Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague.

Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a...

The story of 1947, when Bender's band, after a beating of the Nazis, tried to fight their way through Czechoslovakia to Austria. They come out of the...

Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This...

A movie about Czechoslovak border guards trying to arrest the famous escapee called "King of the Sumava".

During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the saved...

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