Jiří Macháček

A 12-year-old boy faces bullying due to his weight and decides to take charge of his life by adopting a healthier lifestyle and trying to win the ...

The fictional town of Šlukdorf. Here lives a car mechanic who calls himself Bourák. He loves rock and roll, dance, his own gelled hair and, ...

This fascinating historical drama looks at the life of “the Czech Schindler,” Zdenek Toman, a controversial figure who was an ...

In 1940s Prague, a former Nazi prisoner returns to run his posh hair salon and struggles with family, the rise of communism and his past.

Sisters whose husbands were arrested by the Gestapo struggle to get by with their children during WWII, while one grows close to a selfless doctor.

Comedy inspired by paperback crime novels tells the story of an adventurous search for a mysterious murderer who just after the end of the First ...

A loose adaption of Bára Nesvadbová’s novel of the same name. A novel that lacks a dramatic line and concentrates on the flow of emotions ...

Charming bon vivant Rudolf is convinced that infidelity is the basis for a happy marriage, since, after all, a woman does not want to be bored ...

The film contains three Jan Werich’s fairy tales, each directed by one artist. The first story sets out to the Sumava mountains in Southern ...

A bitter sweet comedy that follows a highly appointed Chancellor who set to step down from his position after years of service to his country. ...

When a marriage counselor is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she sets out for new companionship.

This is not a love story though it is full of love. It is not a comedy though the characters often say funny things. It is not a detective story ...

When Oskar, a self-centred TV weatherman, cheats on his wife Zuzana with their au pair, she kicks him to the curb and enlists her in-laws in the ...

Jirka, Roman, and Ivan have been friends since school. Today they are about 35 and, although they went into different fields, their friendship ...

Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… ...

Marcela can’t bear Jarda any longer, so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom’s, whose husband is a creep. While ...

A tragicomedy full of slapstick and vignettes, and even an unexpected shootout. A family of villagers moves up in the world – to the county ...

Milan and Goran are two criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants. One night after they complete a smuggle, they discover that one of the ...

Inspired by the stories of the American writer Raymond Chandler, the classical hero is private detective Phil Marlowe, a romantic cowboy, who ...

When Standa is released from jail, he feels a brighter future is about to take hold. Instead, his bad luck grows, thanks to a new acquaintance.

An unusual story about love and laziness. Thalia Award for the title role for I. Trojan. Recording of a performance at the Dejvice Theater in Prague.

A dark and absurd road-movie comedy in which the grandmother fulfills a dream, the mother stops treating her daughters like kids, the daughters ...

Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of “ordinary” Czech families as an attraction ...

Frantisek, the main character is returning to his family. Until now he’s been, “successfully” avoiding all relationships. He is ...

In the middle of the pasture stands an old oak tree intertwined with a plane tree. Bětka, who grazes sheep, calls it the apple oak. It is her ...

A series of performances by the Sklep theater.

Sad love story about Martin, who is sent to a psychiatric hospital for observation after displays of hooliganism, and Markéta who is recovering ...

A comedy about a charming con artist who decisively intervenes in the life of a wealthy industrialist and his entire family. Influential ...