Ondřej Vetchý

Josef Loucký is the popular mayor of the village of Sedlčánky and has ambitions to win the prestigious title of Village of the Year. The village ...

The film consists of five parts – a live-action framing story and four distinct animated episodes – each by a different creative team ...

The fall from the top to the absolute bottom can be very fast. A renowned physician, also a beloved father and husband, is accused of a serious ...

Young Ondra has asthma and so his parents throw away his favourite toy: a musty old stuffed bear named Kooky. That night Ondra dreams that Kooky ...

Adolescence is always a difficult time; it is doubly so for Gábina. For one thing, she is growing up in the normalization years of the 1970s, and ...

Slovakia, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The family of the young Jewish Martin Friedmann gathers to celebrate his bar mitzvah and ...

“Power is sweetest when it is completely disproportionate – when a fool rules over the wise…” Kundera’s play reveals in a ...

Czech Television has successfully aired two TV movies detective novels by Emil Vachek: The man and the Shadow and Evil minute. In both stories of ...

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

Worried that his father is gay and that it’s hereditary, 13-year-old Tomás gets his girlfriend pregnant. Therein ensues a romantic comedy ...

A wealthy Turk intends to establish an opera house in Smyrna with the help of opera lover Count Čipera. Opera singers are applying for the ...

The dark crime comedy is set in the present day. The story is inspired by the two biggest and still unsolved robberies that have taken place in ...

The film portrays the final days of the most famous Czech authoress, Božena Nìmcová, who in the mid-19th century dared to live a life free of ...

The nurse Helga meets Baltic nobleman Arno when he’s wounded in the Russo-Finnish war. They have a short but passionate affair before Arno ...

A Little Piece of Heaven tells a story of love, friendship, and solidarity, aspects of life that allows us to live with dignity even at the most ...

Lovers & Murderers is about the ongoing war between those who have and those who want to have what the others have. The have-nots see ...

When sisters Jana and Anna meet their half-brother at their father’s funeral, the siblings’ lives entwine as they navigate ...

Father Viktor, highly capable and successful in his profession, and his son Petr, an equally successful and promising student, suddenly find ...

A love story which unfolds over three days and nights on the outskirts of the metropolis. Seventeen-year-old Ema (Dorota Nvotová) breaks up with ...

This simple story is the feature debut for well-known Slovak theater and television director Juraj Nvota. Set in a Slovak village at the turn of ...

As the name suggests, the movie is about football. It is not about big league soccer, making huge money. It is about football, which lives just ...

The princess, who laughs at the lake lord’s feelings because of his non-human appearance, is herself transformed into a living golden ...

A bittersweet comedy starring the great Vlastimil Brodský as Fanda, an old man who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated wife ...

Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become ...

Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his ...

A professor reunites with an old friend who inspires him to return to Czechoslovakia for the first time since he emigrated years ago.

It would never occur to a confident and proud ruler that someone somewhere is counting his misdeeds and that punishment will soon follow. Only ...

A fairy tale based on motifs taken from Josephine tales. Like Josef II, the fictitious emperor Maxmilián often disappears from the castle in ...

This romantic fairy tale, loosely based on an anonymous Arabic story, takes place at the sultan’s court, where the evil sisters of the kind ...

A cheerful fairy tale about a prince whose parents wanted to cure him with a magic potion. The king and queen are very unhappy with their ...