Jan Schmid Movies

An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence.

A bitterly funny look at the beginning of a young teacher's career, based on Halina Pawlowska's first screenplay, which she wrote while still a...

A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a...

Young Eugene from the provinces travels to Prague in search of fame. Once there he gets an offer to write engagé lyrics for pop songs...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our history textbooks try to tell us? What if Master Jan...

Vladimír Michálek chose an unconventional adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel for his feature debut. Artistically reminiscent of the...

A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the...

The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film...

Criminal comedy, a second movie from the "Chief" series.

While Kendy returns to his hometown as an assistant director to film a thirteen-part series with a television crew, Štěpán...

The honest and a bit naive director of a variety agency, Jožin Petránek, sits on the qualification committee that judges entertainers and...

Matěj Hůrka, a teenage bricklayer's apprentice, a young man who is delicate in matters of love, lives with his grandmother in a country...

A Czech film about love and marital crisis as a work injury.

The popular Moravanka brass band performs at the fair. Vasek Pivoňka, the bandleader of the local brass band Kulatěnky, which broke up,...

The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his sixtieth birthday party by the news from the...

Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure out whether to get serious with a young nurse or to...

The hero of the story is a forty-something intellectual, a sensitive composer of classical music. His exclusive profession, his work, which is...

Antonín Maděra receives an offer to leave prison because a review of sentences from the 1950s has found that he was unjustly convicted....

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.

Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver.