Vladimír Ptáček Movies

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

This satirical comedy depicts the fate of two con artists who constantly encounter sharper and more experienced rivals. In their quest for easy...

The photographer and his wife, a former beauty queen, make a living casting death masks. But their obsession goes so far that they decide to cast the...

This documentary-style story tells the story of an aspiring documentary filmmaker who is preparing a film about the history of glassmaking. He is...

The story of two communist friends, one of whom leaves as secretary to the district committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the other...

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...

Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Honza Linhart, who had an accident, and a young...

Sliding, skiing, snow forts, snowball fights, in short, winter is the right season for the children from the village under the...

Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central...

Managers at the construction of a big hydro plant are accused of having embezzled money.

On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In...

It is 1883 and Josef Hibes, a social democrat, is organising a strike of textile workers. The main demand is a reduction in working hours...

Vera, wife of the plumber Simandl (Josef Somr), is found murdered in the cinema next to the IDOC (Information and Documentation) agency where she...

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the...

Major Kalas from the Prague criminal intelligence service has been sent to a small town of Dubá in North Bohemia to help with the...

February 1948. The struggle of decisive social forces for the heart of Europe.

When a volunteer police helper is too proactive, he causes more confusion than good. The unfortunate man has no idea what the testimony of an...

Three short stories ("Zelenáči 1945", "Silvestr 1948" and "Zimní vítr 1951") about members of the SNB units guarding the...