Karel Kachyňa Movies

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most...

A short film on writer and poet František Hrubín.

A film about life in the Czech borderlands after the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans.

Based on an autobiographical novella by Ivan Olbracht, the film tells the story of Hanele Safarová, who grows up just after the First World...

Adam is a young farmer. As a child, fleeing the bleak reality of his mother's life as a prostitute, he tumbled from a mountain and was mentally...

A coming of age drama about a young boy Jirka who lives in Prague.

The economic crisis in the early 1930s also affected the inhabitants of the distinctive Moravian-Slovak countryside. The protagonist and his family...

The small group of actors have to face many problems while preparing a new performance.

A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.

A Czechoslovak battalion, led by Captain Hloušek, conquers a Slovak mountain village two days before Christmas Eve 1944. Christmas and...

A story about young girl Hanka who doesn't have parents and is forced to spend most of her time in a hospital bed.

A man who was a communist MP during the First Republic joins the Slovak National Uprising, but is wounded and has to hide in a log cabin with others....

Oligophrenic Fany (Bohdalová) lives with her aunt who suddenly manages to travel abroad. Fany has to move to her sister...

Little boy Milan is going to visit his grandfather in the countryside - for a first time.

A young veterinarian, Jiří Klimeš, returns to his native village after graduation.

In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana...