Jan Čuřík Movies

Two stories from the lives of border guards. In the story "The Pursuit", an experienced border guard and his young and inexperienced colleague follow...

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly,...

The hesitant shooter becomes a timid young man who only the war will make a real man.

In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he...

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

A little boy, named Prdelka, traveled with his father from Prague to the country during the Second World War. There, the boy became friends with a...

An American spy agency located in West Germany is interested in information concerning Czechoslovak commercial activities in the Middle East. Agent...

The fate of a tank crew on the most difficult part of the First Czechoslovak Independent Brigade's combat path during World War II. We also follow...

An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in...

A documentary depicting the Czechoslovak army's border patrol.

Two young men, thinking that they've killed someone, flee to Poland.

Documentary by Jan Kadar

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided to hold a traditional ball despite the ban....

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...

The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his...

After inheriting a villa from his uncle, Emil Tuma meets its strange inhabitants, getting him in trouble.

Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his...

A harsh and raw story about the difficult life of a village woman and the sad fate of her three daughters...