Vlastimil Brodský Movies

The difference in personalities and lifestyles is the core of Zdeněk Svěrák's hilarious comedy. The story of two elderly gentlemen...

Film makes the creative process visible by letting its narrative flow in the mind of a foreign director who is researching a film about Franz Kafka...

The Haszler songs of Prague, so popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, have not aged. They are still sung in pubs and on...

Dentist Dr. Franke's selfless willingness to help is much appreciated by neighbors and acquaintances in the GDR. There is only one exception: Biggi,...

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

The story of a little ghost who is angry and spins around the television antenna, making noises on the screen. A boy who is watching TV goes to see...

The news that frames the two days in which the whole story takes place is bad. At first glance, these don't seem like the happiest two days. And yet,...

Two hilarious short stories set in the milieu of apprentice youth, depicting the amorous travails of teenage boys. In the first story, "The Sorrows...

A butcher and his wife are hardworking, but their only interest is in material possessions. That's why they are upset that their little son is...

A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the...

A professor reunites with an old friend who inspires him to return to Czechoslovakia for the first time since he emigrated years ago.

Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa orchestra, but he is again and again distracted by...

Webs of Prague's post-war underworld.

The first short story "Naked in the Thorns" tells the story of a man whose clothes were taken away by a dog during his bath in the river. In the...

No Woman is allowed into Karlstejn Castle! Yet the enamoured Daniele Kolářová and the equally enamoured Jana Brejchová...

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