Jan Potměšil Movies

Sixteen-year-old Magda and Jakub, who is the same age, are in love. Nothing wrong with that, love is part of youth. But one day, Jakub invites Magda...

Based on real event, Bolero is an excellent story of progressive recovery of a crime. The story surprises all the time, shows new connections, new...

A documentary film following several years in the life of Jan Potměšil who has become a very popular actor at an early age, representing...

Tonda is a sixteen-year-old boy who has a talent for sports. His father, who is also a coach, would like Tonda to focus on javelin, but his son is...

Fairy tale about young cobbler Jíra, who had fashioned wings from leather in order to rescue princess Jasnenka from the tower of the royal...

Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exchange his krona for deutschemarks so that he can...

The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

The story, set mainly in the picturesque surroundings of a First Republic swimming pool, offers many surprises in the form of unexpected performances...

Vera Cáslavská, the most successful Czechoslovak sportswoman and the fourth most successful Olympic sportswoman globally, won seven...

The 11-year old Jakub is living in a children's home, when he is picked up by his father. The father has been "away" for four years, the boys mother...

The life story of Blessed Zdislava of Lemberk, about whom legends rather than sparse historical references tell us that she was a deeply religious...

Why? (Czech: Proč?) is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Smyczek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988...

Unemployed and in search of work, a young man gets roped into a series of shady schemes that unite a former band of money launderers.

How it will end? Let's just tell you that on one side of the mountain, the stream that had run before it dries up, and on the other side of the...

A period musical comedy set in a quiet Prague quarter at the end of the fifties. Using the western plot device of the "man from nowhere" a generation...

A fairy tale about brotherhood that turns into hatred and betrayal, and about love transformed into heroism and fearlessness.