Jan Pivec Movies

Slightly ironic comedy of wretches, who come to understand the rich and are able to accept charity, and also about how love and work prevail over the...

Explores young adults' fears of being conscripted by the communist government into working outside of Prague, a relative oasis of creativity and...

The famous operetta singer Jarmila Kšírová tries to hide her marital status from the sensationalist public. The heroine of the...

Theater props maker Karel Vajgant has a young wife, Magda, and two children, seven-year-old Pavlík and eleven-year-old Pepička. Magda is...

After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving their homes to help build the...

Josef Houbička, the owner of the U pěti veverek apartment building in Malostran, is a kind and forgiving good man who allows himself to be...

The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.

František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and grows increasingly alienated, even as his...

The construction of the new dam deprived the ferryman Ryba of his trade. The new dam replaced the ferry. However, Ryba's ancestors were ferrymen and...

A small Czech town in the 1860s. The townspeople once made a fortune from the proceeds of gold mines that are now flooded. However, they do not want...

The main character is a newly appointed associate professor MUDr. Jakub Johánek, a psychiatrist and timid teetotaler, who decides to celebrate...

A tragicomedy set in wartime Germany. The protagonist is 16-year-old Bruno, who is considered by everyone to be an uneducated goofus. But he hates...

Poor saleswoman Helena accepts a theater ticket from a stranger who has left over the ticket after a disagreement with his fiancée Eva. The...

A host of actors in the classic national fairy tale by A. Jirásek. Jirásek's "Lucerna" is the best-known and most performed of his...

The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The...

Emanuel Pokorný, a bachelor, is to join a rural church school as a professor. Before leaving, however, he finds an infant abandoned in his...