Ilja Racek

Emigrants rarely do well abroad, which is why they often return to their homeland. At least, that's what the film The Poachers claims. But the long...

A mentally ill man is running away from the people who care for him in search of freedom. He accidentally stumbles into a hotel where a ten-year-old...

The forest worker František Hrubý, a poor, hard-working man, lives with his granddaughter in a lonely cottage. Despite being in his...

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.

Two people scarred by a wartime past meet again years later during an archaeological dig. But the silent, inaccessible man in particular is reluctant...

A military film of marital infidelity in which furloughs pose danger not only to the army but also to a soldier's family.

Even in the "enlightened" 60. years filmmakers like to play spies. In the grand-world environment, Luxury hotel in Karlovy Vary the sophisticated...

The king is broke, so he welcomes when a rich Spanish king asks about his daughter, Dandelion. But Dandelion does not love the king and prefers to...

The short story explores the often tragic impact of prejudice or suspicion that relies on the appearance of the human face. Guests in a remote pub...

Second half of the 19th century. In a small town in South Bohemia, fifth-former Jan Ratkin is living through the confusions of first love together...

A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a...

A broadly drawn ideological epic set in the summer of 1947 in the borderlands of northern Bohemia: reactionary elements plot to undermine postwar...

A fairy tale about three princes, enchanted into dog form... The shepherd Jirka is herding sheep when a mysterious hunter with three dogs named Drž,...

Patients flock to the newly opened "slimming" sanatorium with the aim of losing weight. And although each of them has a different reason for doing...

This naively filmed adventure story draws from Robert L. Stvenson's novel, but adapts it to its own devices. It tells the story of a young Czech who...

Czech television production of Dracula that is very faithful to Bram Stoker's novel.

In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when...

A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the...

A handsome young shepherd stumbles across a magical golden fern in the forest. A stunning, enigmatic forest fairy named Lesanka is sent to retrieve...

Many corners of Prague are perfect for fairy tales. They thrive the most in Kampa, but there is one in Podskalí too. The ferryman's son...

In the middle of the pasture stands an old oak tree intertwined with a plane tree. Bětka, who grazes sheep, calls it the apple oak. It is her...

A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and...

For a long time, Marie cannot admit to the break-up of her long marriage and believes that her husband will come back to her...

Screen adaptation of Julius Fucik's story about communist fighters.

The story of a teacher, a famous actress, and her students set against the backdrop of the harsh normalization period, a time when, after the Soviet...

The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not hide his admiration for this literary giant, and...

No one has ever managed to enter the dark cave of the fairy Asteria twice. Anyone brought here by chance or curiosity has been petrified. Only the...

Detective Weiner probes the death of Tomáš Ruml, found in a ruined house. Son of the architect behind a planned gypsy-quarter...

The ship's first officer, Karel Kip, and his brother, engineer Petr Kip, are convicted as mutineers for the mysterious murder of the captain of the...

The eccentric colonel's wife decides to take her recently deceased husband's urn home from the cemetery, which gives her essentially kind but...

Josef Loucký is the popular mayor of the village of Sedlčánky and has ambitions to win the prestigious title of Village of the Year....

Eighteen-year-old Dalibor Daněk grew up in an orphanage, did not get an education and became involved with a group of smugglers in the Ostrava...

The television adaptation of Stevenson's well-known short story enriched the story with a new motif, because the good and evil in a person change not...

In the era of the rise of Nazism in Germany, a strange man, exhibited in a circus for the amusement of the audience, is found to be the heir to a...

Czechoslovak drama film about soldiers returning from World War II

The young shoemaker Drobínek knows how to repair shoes well and loves Mančinka. But because he lacks self-confidence, he cannot confess his...

A summer picture of a small village and its inhabitants, where several love relationships intertwine.

The border must be guarded against insidious intruders, of that the brave border guard has no doubt. He takes in a shot dog, gains its trust, and...

As a young actor František Lukávec and his teacher Vladimir Tuma became enemies. František insisted that Tuma was dismissed from...

Journalist E. E. Kisch tells crime stories from old Prague, which he himself experienced in the years before World War I and recorded in his reports...

The short story film based on the book of the same name by Karel Pecka depicts the atmosphere of the Lesser Town in the 1980s.