Viktor Očásek Movies

A crime story set in the second half of the 19th century. Krasl, a Prague schoolteacher, is searching for a statue of the Golden Buddha, which is...

Journalist learns about battle in a small village.

Working in the city office is a bitter clerk who believes he has only 14 days to live and so he bravely stands up to his bureaucratic director.

Martin Plechatý and Petr Nový roam occupied Prague with their trams. Times are hard and sometimes survival is not easy - especially...

Elén, a girl living with her mother and stepfather in a secluded forest, has a great singing talent. On her twenty-first birthday, she runs...

The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.

Two marriageable girls, Princess Disperanda and her maid Káča, sign a betrothal with their own blood in exchange for fairy-tale grooms....

Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertising slides and a "newspaper", we see "the...

Miloš Kopecký comments on himself in the roles of restaurant guests who suffer from various social ills. This satirical parade of...

In late 19th century Czech-speaking Bohemia, oppressed workers at German-owned mines and foundries revolt against their harsh working conditions....

The historical television play was written based on Vančura's Pictures from the History of the Czech Nation and takes place against the backdrop...

The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The...

The Czech revival movement is divided at the end of the first half of the 19th century. While the older generation, such as František...

Innovator Ludvík Zach is in love with his technical data and improvement proposals and does not believe that women could be able to understand...

An adventure story for young people set in a summer camp for boaters in Juná. Eda, marked by a tragic experience of occupation, has difficulty...

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

František Brych, a principled lawyer, refuses to back the new Communist regime at his factory and grows increasingly alienated, even as his...

Kastl is a hairdresser but his real passion is his second job as football referee. This job takes all his free time and makes his wife very nervous.