Jiří Holý Movies

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 fate of the insignificant poet Leonard Undene is transposed into the media atmosphere of the late 1960s. An ironic image of the times, a black...

A movie about Czechoslovak border guards trying to arrest the famous escapee called "King of the Sumava".

A host of actors in the classic national fairy tale by A. Jirásek. Jirásek's "Lucerna" is the best-known and most performed of his...

In a small Texas town where cowboys lived their usual lives, local villain Bill Crooked Mouth and his cronies played cards in the saloon and the...

Historical reconstruction of the events of the anti-fascist struggle in Slovakia in 1943 and 1944.

The king is comfortable and does not want to be ruled, so he announces a competition for inventors. He wants them to invent something that will make...

A dramatic episode from the life of Czech philologist and historian Josef Dobrovský, a leading figure of the national revival.

February 1948. The struggle of decisive social forces for the heart of Europe.

A group of children from a working-class neighbourhood in Pilsen search for a way to effectively protest against the rampage of the First World War...

Summer 1968: The crisis is reaching its peak. The director of the Prague taxi service, Mudroch, rejects the drivers' absurd demands for a pay...

A gloomy tale about a king whose pride robbed him of love, friends and power. A cruel curse is at the beginning of the story of this fairy tale based...