Josef A. Stehlík Movies

Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via...

Jan Kačer became known primarily as an actor, but he also took up film directing several times - not very successfully. Based on someone else's...

The Czech film Svítalo All Night was made to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Army and is...

Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman,...

Martin Plechatý and Petr Nový roam occupied Prague with their trams. Times are hard and sometimes survival is not easy - especially...

A directors autobiography about his debut during the rise of socialism.

Rudolf Měšťák’s silent film The Prague Executioner, based on the novel of the same name by Josef Svátek, is a...

It's about an old man, a crime, bureaucracy and remorse

In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...

The construction of a gigantic facility such as the Dukovany nuclear power plant requires only the most capable experts. Such is the engineer...

During the First World War, the crooks Scholef and Krumka sell weapons on the black market. After the collapse of the monarchy they try their hand at...

The story of a juvenile delinquent who, despite society's efforts to reform him, irrevocably ruined his life.

A group of teenagers are trying to solve a mystery of a puzzle created and left to them by the dead boy.

In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building...

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the...

February 1948. The struggle of decisive social forces for the heart of Europe.