Petr Čepek

A very free adaptation of Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus”, Goethe’s “Faust” and various other treatments of the ...

Against the petty, which places its own glory above honest work and honest human relationships. Čapek’s Foltýn is from the family of ...

The theatre director encounters the disinterest and irresponsibility of the acting troupe, whose members are scheming and looking for side ...

At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), dedicated to the Rudolphine-era scientist Jan ...

Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy (Petr Cepek), tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for a fight in which he injured a functionary of ...

Luděk Krejza, a tile-layer, returns from prison after serving time for manslaughter. In a retrospective, the viewer is introduced to his story. ...

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

The film tells the story of an enthusiastic young man who joins a textile factory in the late 1950s and assumes that a promising career awaits ...

In 1866 the Prussians withdraw from the German alliance and declare war on Austria. A sergeant of this army forces a Czech young man named Ludvík ...

Based on a Jack London story, this is another attempt at a Western spectacle – after the short story triptych The Canyon of Gold – ...

Sonya is the heiress to the riches of a Czech noble family—the Hajns. Petr, a social climber marries her, ignoring some shady goings-on—in ...

Painter Horace visits his friend, a former criminalist, and is intrigued by two strange women who live in the house opposite. The old sisters ...

A narration of episodes from the life of the famous Czech poet, Karel Hynek Mácha. Throughout the film, we witness a deep analysis of ...

Sixty-year-old Joska Platejz, a peculiar jack of all trades, lives in a cottage in the Giant Mountains. He cooks wonderfully for a group of ...

In a school somewhere in the border region, a young teacher is trying to integrate Romani children into the classroom. But their families remain ...

Films for children gradually fell into the grip of expressive and content sterility, succumbing to exhortative, educational tendencies. This is ...

The story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing also gets a son with her. Dealing with such a ...

The dramatic story of Karel Svozil, an aging professor of art history, tells of love and old age, illness, death and the worries of everyday life ...

The hero, rushing from one misfortune to another, is former accountant Řehoř Maršíček, who after a heart attack, out of fear of death, decides to ...

The movie’s main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an ...

A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth.