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Láska
1

Láska

Dec 31, 1949

Láska
1949 137 min 1 vues
Montage of documentary footage from the liberation and building of the republic as a tribute to JV Stalin on his seventieth birthday.
Documentary
Siréna
6

Siréna

Apr 11, 1947

Siréna
1947 77 min 6 vues
In late 19th century Czech-speaking Bohemia, oppressed workers at German-owned mines and foundries revolt against their harsh working conditions. Made shortly after World War II as Czechoslovakia was falling to communism, the film resonates in Czech resentment of the German occupation.
Drama
Bílá tma
6

Bílá tma

Aug 27, 1948

Bílá tma
1948 112 min 1 vues
A young doctor and a group of injured are hiding in an underground shelter and are liberated by Soviet soldiers.
Drama
Divá Bára
6.6

Divá Bára

Apr 29, 1949

Divá Bára
1949 79 min 5 vues
This is a romantic story about a brave, self-made girl, despised daughter of a shepherd. She is not afraid of anything - neither night nor swimming. But the superstitious villagers are telling weird stories about her and about all sorts of strange things, even her conjunction with the powers of hell.
Drama
Červená ještěrka
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Červená ještěrka

Feb 11, 1949

Červená ještěrka
1949 82 min 1 vues
Grammar school teacher Bláha hurts himself in pursuit of a red lizard, and is lying unconscious in the lonely house of Santrucek family. The postman, who found Bláha's coat and hat in the water, announces to everyone in town that the professor has drowned. But, the venerable citizens are at that moment more interested in the theatre group with the beautiful guest actress Eva Gazdová. They demand a change of repertoire and manage to persuade the theatre manager to have the group play the musical comedy The Red Lizard instead of an established play.
Comedy
La Longue Route
6.765

La Longue Route

Jun 03, 1949

La Longue Route
1949 104 min 17 vues
Grammar school teacher Bláha hurts himself in pursuit of a red lizard, and is lying unconscious in the lonely house of Santrucek family. The postman, who found Bláha's coat and hat in the water, announces to everyone in town that the professor has drowned. But, the venerable citizens are at that moment more interested in the theatre group with the beautiful guest actress Eva Gazdová. They demand a change of repertoire and manage to persuade the theatre manager to have the group play the musical comedy The Red Lizard instead of an established play.
Drama
Krakatit
6.5

Krakatit

Apr 09, 1948

Krakatit
1948 110 min 20 vues
In early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed in the hands of anarchists.
Science Fiction
Svědomí
7.5

Svědomí

Mar 25, 1948

Svědomí
1948 101 min 2 vues
Karel Doležal, insurance clerk and exemplary father of a family, leaves for a business trip with his secretary Vlasta. After spending the night together, they both return home. However, thanks to a small moment of inattention, they run over the boys. Karel runs away from the scene of the crime. He won't tell anyone what happened. Then when he reads in the newspaper that the boy did not survive the accident, he begins to feel guilty. He confides in his wife about the accident, not the infidelity. Their son Jirka overhears everything. His father has always been his role model, and that's why he doesn't want to accept his guilt.
Drama
Slepice a kostelník
6

Slepice a kostelník

Apr 06, 1951

Slepice a kostelník
1951 88 min 2 vues
Cooperative members are harvesting crops, trying to get new water piping installed and preparing to plough away the field boundaries in autumn. Local kulak Voznica (Vladimír Repa) doesn't like any of this so he forces sexton Kodýtek (Vlasta Burian) to help him sabotage their efforts.
Comedy
Racek má zpoždění
5

Racek má zpoždění

Dec 22, 1950

Racek má zpoždění
1950 85 min 1 vues
Baker Jan Racek (Vladimír Repa) is a very hard-working and sensible man. His great passion is pigeon-keeping and also, for many years, Ruzenka (Ludmila Vostrcilová). They are going to get married but Racek is busy waiting for the pigeons' return and misses the wedding. The engaged couple is already getting a little older so the otherwise kind Ruzenka gets very angry at this and gives Racek an ultimatum - it's going to be her or the pigeons.
Comedy
Vítězná křídla
6

Vítězná křídla

Jan 01, 1951

Vítězná křídla
1951 90 min 2 vues
Many of the young workers at an aircraft factory near Prague are members of an aviation club. On the one hand, there is the responsible Franta, who is highly regarded by his colleagues due to his understanding nature. Opposite him is the talented aircraft designer Ruda, who is also an excellent pilot, but also hotheaded, undisciplined and condescending towards his colleagues. He starts flirting with the glass grinder Lída, although he knows that she is Franta's girl friend. A conflict is not long in coming. When Franta's glider crashes due to a suspected mistake by Ruda, Ruda is banned for a certain period of time. This is fatal, because both young men were actually supposed to represent Czechoslovakia at the upcoming international gliding championships in Poland.
Drama
Veselý cirkus
5.1

Veselý cirkus

Jan 01, 1951

Veselý cirkus
1951 12 min 4 vues
Trnka brings to life a surrealist circus of tightrope-walking fish, musical monkeys, balancing bears, and high-flying acrobatics in this whimsical feat of cutout animation made in collaboration with leading Czech painters of the era.
Animation
Dovolená s Andělem
7.6

Dovolená s Andělem

Apr 03, 1953

Dovolená s Andělem
1953 137 min 8 vues
Strict and always dissatisfied grumbler Mr. Angel gets a voucher for summer recreation. He rejects it at first but he eventually decides to use it and spend 14 days in unionist hut Jezerka together with other merited co-workers.
Comedy
Vlčie diery
5.8

Vlčie diery

Dec 25, 1948

Vlčie diery
1948 104 min 4 vues
This drama from the times of Slovak National Uprising is situated in a small Slovak village. It is the tragical story of a widow and her four sons who fight alongside the partisans against the German occupants.
Drama
Varuj...!
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Varuj...!

Apr 24, 1947

Varuj...!
1947 85 min 1 vues
A drama about Slovaks who emigrated before WW I. It is focused on the life of Ondrej Muranica. He emigrates to America because of the hard life that is partly caused by Hungarian landowners. His dreams and hopes for a happier life are destroyed by a disaster in the mines where he works. Ondrej is declared missing.Years later he returns to his home country and finds out his wife married his best friend.
Drama
Čína v boji
1

Čína v boji

Mar 31, 1950

Čína v boji
1950 137 min 1 vues
A documentary film about the history and present of the struggle of the communist troops led by Mao Zedong and Chu Tie in China.
Documentary
Chceme žít
5

Chceme žít

Sep 29, 1950

Chceme žít
1950 84 min 1 vues
Poetic story of a proletarian couple's relationship in the years of economic crisis and unemployment.
Drama
Dravci
7

Dravci

Apr 30, 1948

Dravci
1948 137 min 1 vues
Wild Beasts
Drama
Lavina
4.5

Lavina

Jul 05, 1946

Lavina
1946 83 min 2 vues
An ambitious and selfish lawyer confesses to the murder of his first wife. Some of the scenes were filmed in the last weeks of the war.
Crime
Veliká příležitost
3

Veliká příležitost

Apr 14, 1950

Veliká příležitost
1950 137 min 1 vues
An optimistic collective drama from the life of the workers on the construction site of the Youth Track. An amnestied prisoner wants to atone for his wrongdoing with an honest strike and reveals the vandal who was going to poison the drinking water cistern.
Drama
La berçeuse
7

La berçeuse

Jan 01, 1948

La berçeuse
1948 9 min 1 vues
A fairy tale for children about correcting a selfish chick.
Animation
Král Lávra
6

Král Lávra

Mar 23, 1951

Král Lávra
1951 30 min 9 vues
A king hides an embarrassing secret - and it causes him to execute every barber who cuts his hair.
Animation
Bajaja
5.4

Bajaja

Jan 26, 1951

Bajaja
1951 87 min 6 vues
Bayaya, a young peasant, protected by the spirit of his dead mother, arrives at the castle of the King, where he entertains his three daughters. He soon realizes that the three princesses are nagged by evil spirits. The little peasant manages to rid them of them, fights a duel with a wicked lord who wanted to marry one of the three princesses. He finally wins the heart of the youngest sister while saving the soul of his mother who was in purgatory.
Animation
Císařův slavík
5.3

Císařův slavík

Apr 15, 1949

Císařův slavík
1949 72 min 13 vues
Adaptation of a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, the nightingale's song restores his health.
Animation
La Chaumière en pain d'épices
6

La Chaumière en pain d'épices

Aug 31, 1951

La Chaumière en pain d'épices
1951 19 min 1 vues
Adaptation of a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, the nightingale's song restores his health.
Animation
Nikola Šuhaj
5

Nikola Šuhaj

Feb 28, 1947

Nikola Šuhaj
1947 97 min 1 vues
At the end of the First World War, Nikola Shuhai and his friend from the army desert. On the way home, to the village of Kolochava, they both find refuge with baby Jaga. Jaga mixes them a drink to protect them from the deadly bullets. The bachelors must promise to marry her daughters in exchange for a drink, or they will be punished. Nikola finds his home village in poverty. He stands against the powerful and the rich, and they turn the gendarmes against him. Nikola hides from them in the woods, where he will remain even after the end of the war, because nothing has changed for the villagers. Out of poverty and hopelessness, other men join Nikola and together they raid the wealthy. Nikola distributes the obtained booty to the poor and needy, who see him as their protector and hero.
Drama
Rozina sebranec
7

Rozina sebranec

Dec 14, 1945

Rozina sebranec
1945 94 min 1 vues
Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that will never come to Prague. She falls for the promise of an older man to marry her, but when Nikolo does return, the tragic fate of Rozina is sealed.
History
Řeka čaruje
7.5

Řeka čaruje

Jan 25, 1946

Řeka čaruje
1946 90 min 4 vues
Leopold Kohák married a rich widow a long time ago and now has nothing to do compared to his energetic wife. He's growing old and troubled by the fact that he betrayed his first love Emča and his beloved river Sázava where he spent his childhood and youth. A visit from an old friend Lebeda brings it all back to him. After a nervous breakdown Leopold secretly visits his home instead of going to the spa. A wandering tramp suggest Leopold should bathe in the magical waters of the Sázava, and slowly his youth returns to him.
Comedy
Alena
6.5

Alena

Aug 08, 1947

Alena
1947 137 min 2 vues
Master armourer Tomás has young wife Alena, of whom he is very jealous. One day the ruler of town sees Alena and decides to win her over for himself. To get a free hand for his love affairs, he sends Master Tomás to acquire more skills in Flanders. Jealous husband does not know how to secure fidelity of his beautiful wife while he is away, and finally accepts aid of the devil, to whom he signs his soul as a reward. Devil in the disguise of Master Ondrej works in Tomás's workshop and protects Alena against various courtiers and the ruler of town. But finally he falls in love with Alena himself and becomes her lover.
Comedy