František Vláčil Movies

In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a...

According to one Beskydy Mountains legend, if you do a good deed you will see silver trees. Little Ondra knows trees like that. In his family's...

A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with...

Documentary about the making of the 1967 Czech film "Marketa Lazarova".

About meteorologists working on Lomničký štít. The film shows contrast between a man and mountains.

A popular science film about the creation of a new drug, from the moment a chemist determines, based on the composition of a substance, that it might...

A young boy’s infatuation with flight is the subject of Vláčil’s poetic, prize-winning early short, made for the Czechoslovak...