Miroslav Svoboda

Higher Principle

Jiří Krejčík

František Smolík, Jana Brejchová

During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.

Dnes naposled

Martin Frič

Zdeněk Štěpánek, Vladimír Ráž

Concert master Karel Mašek is a drunk, as well as engineer Danda and other regular guests of the pub U Kroců. Mašek returns from the pub in the morning and promises the woman that he will stop drinking. But he failed again, and the orchestra players refuse to play with him. Danda returns home without a bag and goes to Krocs again in the morning, even though he has an important job at work. He has been degraded to subordinate job position, but he refused to admit it at home.

Císařův pekař – Pekařův císař

Martin Frič

Jan Werich, Marie Vášová

The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers the legendary Golem, which he believes can protect him and even cure his imaginary illnesses but, when he disappears while on a bender, his kindly baker, who looks just like him, is mistaken for him, and begins to put things in order. However, the conspirators, not to be outdone, determine to bring the Golem back to life to do their bidding.

Tajemství krve

Martin Frič

Vladimír Ráž, Zdeněk Štěpánek

Медик Ян Янский успешно заканчивает учебу. Он хочет стать хирургом, но оказывается в психиатрической клинике профессора Каффнера, где он и его коллега Коздера пытаются найти связь между свертываемостью крови и психическими заболеваниями. Неожиданно было обнаружено, что кровь человека можно разделить на четыре группы, что предотвращает свертывание крови при её переливании. Однако открытие Янского встречает недоумение со стороны чешского медицинского сообщества, которое признает вклад этого ученого в медицинскую науку только после его трагической смерти.

Romeo, Juliet and Darkness

Jiří Weiss

Ivan Mistrík, Daniela Smutná

Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building's attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German army, love blossoms between the two. He is her only link to the outside world. Then the two are discovered by Pavel's mother, who forces the residents of the apartment building to decide whether Hana can remain.

Škola otců

Ladislav Helge

Karel Höger, Blažena Holišová

A new teacher with high standards and a strong sense of duty replaces an easy grader. Once bad grades begin to pile up, a product of his predecessor's subservience to the system, the new teacher has to stand up for himself and his students.

Bílá nemoc

Hugo Haas

Hugo Haas, Zdeněk Štěpánek

The White Plague, a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war. Based on a play by Karel Čapek.

Daleká cesta

Alfréd Radok

Blanka Waleská, Otomar Krejča

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.

Svět patří nám

Martin Frič

Jan Werich, George Voskovec

One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats stir up trouble in what is obviously the Sudetenland.

Princezna se zlatou hvězdou

Martin Frič

Marie Kyselková, Josef Zíma

A Czech fairy tale about a princess named Lada who runs away from home in a mouse fur disguise in order to escape an unwanted and forced marriage.

Hej-Rup!

Martin Frič

Jan Werich, George Voskovec

A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still owns a half-finished apartment-house. They rally the workers and complete the building for use as a collectivist dairy. The cooperative flourishes and after a chase/pursuit with the police, pratfalls, slapstick and various crashes, the workers buy out the Milk-Trust.

Transport z ráje

Zbyněk Brynych

Zdeněk Štěpánek, Ilja Prachař

Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and tribulations the Theresienstadt people faced on a daily basis presented in a series of memorable stories. Their hopes and dreams unfold against the perpetual threat of deportation (or worse) by the Nazis. Based on the novel "Night and Hope" by Arnost Lustig.

The Golden Fern

Jiří Weiss

Vít Olmer, Karla Chadimová

Wandering through the forest, a woodcutter finds a golden fern whose seed turns into a beautiful woman - they fall in love. After getting drunk in a village feast, he gets to sign up to the army. The fairy gives him a shirt to wear and asks him to swear he will never abandon it. At the war front, he falls in love with the the colonel's daughter and will have to perform various feats to get her attention.

Studentská máma

Vladimír Slavínský

Antonie Nedošinská, Theodor Pištěk

Dědeček automobil

Alfréd Radok

Raymond Bussières, Ginette Pigeon

Před maturitou

Vladislav Vančura, Svatopluk Innemann

Jindřich Plachta, František Smolík

The story of high school students, talented Jan and Karel, who has a problem with math. Their life affects pedantic professor of mathematics Klec, that goes with them on a school trip, which escalates the conflict between them. Jan wants to escape, but Professor Donat will discourage him. Karel fails the exam of mathematics and decides to commit suicide.