Jiří Weiss Movies

The revolutionary year of 1848 brought great hopes among the hitherto silent classes, awakening social and national hopes. The response also...

A student commits suicide out of unhappy love to a married man; story is recounted in retrospective by a "judge" who asks the audience to decide who...

Karel Doležal, insurance clerk and exemplary father of a family, leaves for a business trip with his secretary Vlasta. After spending the night...

Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been...

Cold War Spy FIlm

The fate of the insignificant poet Leonard Undene is transposed into the media atmosphere of the late 1960s. An ironic image of the times, a black...

Czech film tells the story of a border town in World War II. Family members and friends become enemies.

A detective drama set just before the unification of our physical education system. Criminal investigators investigate the murder of a football club...

The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial...

A thirteen-year-old girl whose mother suddenly dies during the birth of her second child is forced to start taking care not only of herself, but also...

Wandering through the forest, a woodcutter finds a golden fern whose seed turns into a beautiful woman - they fall in love. After getting drunk in a...

Building a bridge is no simple matter. The city council has to decide between two competing proposals, one of which is submitted by villainous...

Directed by Jirí Weiss

River flowing through Prague, Czechoslovakia. Shots of the city. Bridges, buildings, street scenes, religious buildings, cars driving the streets. ...

“The Carpathians are medieval!” one character bellows, and this tale of the tree-chopper Petro, his faithless wife Marijka, and various...