Jan Hraběta Movies

In the fifites the 10 year old boy Honza lives with his single mother in Prague. The mother is a dedicated communist in the beginning but she changes...

Capturing the dark humor of Czech author Michal Viewegh's chronicle of life after the Velvet Revolution, this black comedy chronicles three decades...

Engineer Pavel Hnyk is successful at work, but not very happy in his private life. He is approaching his fiftieth birthday and he can't shake the...

Building themes, however modified, permeated the nationalised cinema throughout its existence. This time, director Július Matula has focused...

A coming of age drama about a young boy Jirka who lives in Prague.

Two brothers live with their mother in an old house on the outskirts of town. They both work in a printing house. Elder Bóža is a quiet,...

The film, which opens with students arriving at a police academy, is a crazy comedy that is more a series of zany episodes and jokes than a coherent...

The main character of the story, which is a sensitive probe into the soul of a little girl, is five-year-old Kačka Znamínková, who...

Mr Jiš managed to give his first script at Barrandov. Already in the preparatory phase, he discovers with horror that the filmmakers have...

A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth.

The theatre director encounters the disinterest and irresponsibility of the acting troupe, whose members are scheming and looking for side income....

Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman,...

It all begins at Prague Airport, where American agents have brought Major Maisner, who has been expelled from the United States, in handcuffs. He...

This traditional seminar will introduce you to the most basic facts about Jára Cimrman. The ensuing play will show how difficult it is for...

The lead character is a young woman who becomes close with a colleague of her husband. She finds herself at an important crossroad in life and...

Two little girls get ahold of magic and hijinks ensue.

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

The common denominator of the five stories, preceded by a brief prologue by Artem Benki, is the setting of a giant open-pit mine in the...