Vladimír Šmeral Movies

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot),...

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as well as economic, political, and social...

In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is...

Two young returnees from the First World War face a difficult future because they cannot find work. One eventually finds a job as an electrician, the...

The likeable and charming Vanda Karhanová has problems in every job because of her appearance. So when she is about to start a new job, she...

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's tale, "Inn at the Flying Dragon," brings dark fantasy, ghostly apparitions, and mysteries to the TV screen. It's part of...

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery...

Montage of documentary footage from the liberation and building of the republic as a tribute to JV Stalin on his seventieth birthday.

People are afraid of the usurer Chazaj and are convinced that he is the bearer of evil. One day Chazaj pays a visit to the poor artist Simon...

An anthology in three jazz-infused tales: an idealistic student’s romance with a pragmatic trumpeter; a vibraphonist’s urgent journey...

The leader of the fast-track workers' party is appointed worker director of the unprofitable Lucie mine. The wrong decisions he makes to increase...

A B&W film poem of the Czech countryside and Weiss’s personal favorite of his early shorts. Mythical images of mountains and streams and rural...

The younger brother of a brave paratrooper killed by the Nazis joins a partisan unit to avenge his death. The story is still naive in many ways, but...

Honza Vavrinec (Rudolf Hrusínský) works in the investment department of a large office. One day he gets involved in the case of an...