Karel Houska Movies

Based on book by Svatopluk Turek.

In 363, somewhere in Mesopotamia, on a campaign against the Persians, the emperor Julian, who had succeeded Constantine after his victory over Gaul,...

While Kendy returns to his hometown as an assistant director to film a thirteen-part series with a television crew, Štěpán...

An animal lover father brings home a cuddlesome female chimp named Tereza from his latest around the world and adopts her as a pet...

Worker Šebesta does not rejoice with the others in the May Day parade, as his boots are weighing him down. The following working day does not...

We learn that the greatest virtue of socialist competition is collective cooperation. This is what the young, physically fit assembler refuses to...

In an unsightly tenement house, the walls of which are as peeling as the souls of the tenants, an old woman waits for her son to return from prison....

Soldier Honza Marek got a three-day leave. Marta, whom he dated before the war, did not wait for him, but she prefers him again to her new admirer,...

Building a bridge is no simple matter. The city council has to decide between two competing proposals, one of which is submitted by villainous...

The inhabitants of a picturesque village proud of its ancient linden tree will be disturbed by a disturbing event - a temporary road diversion is...

A British citizen by the name of George Reiner (Jirí Sovák) arrives at Prague airport. He was once a Czech safe-breaker, and has now...

A mysterious man named Michael Allan Jones arrives in Prague to search for his ancestors. Specifically, he is interested in the year 1611, when a...

In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions...

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

A teenage witch, frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, finds herself in a modern world.

The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film...