František Filipovský Movies

In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint....

This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start...

The story of love, between a sturdy village boy and a gentle country girl, filmed with a movingly genuine charm.

The troubles of a young married couple with an overprotective mother and mother-in-law. Usually it ends with a wedding, but this time it begins....

The film depicts the fate of the residents of an apartment block in Prague’s Jewish quarter following the invasion by German troops in 1939....

The revolutionary year of 1848 brought great hopes among the hitherto silent classes, awakening social and national hopes. The response also...

Trnka reached new heights of modernist abstraction with this innovative, surrealist mini-masterwork, which critic Jean-Pierre Coursodon praised as...

The film follows Karel Novák, who is appointed as the head of a research institute's new department. His ambitious wife, Eva, sees this as an...

In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates the murder of a wealthy woman, Mrs...

A second part of a funny adventures of six years old Lucie and her two magic dolls.

A rumour that a large holiday resort is supposedly being built on the banks of the local pond causes confusion among the villagers.

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

The bickering of envious mistresses, the criminal intentions of fraudsters and the love of two young people are at the center of events, in the...