Jan Schánilec Movies

Two young returnees from the First World War face a difficult future because they cannot find work. One eventually finds a job as an electrician, the...

A petrol pump is run by a permanent team: the manager Vávra, a former civil engineer ing. Stejskal, a smug crook named Karafa, and an old man,...

The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the...

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...

A comedy about the unhinged owner of a lavish Art Nouveau villa. However, she is not entirely serious about the frequent advertisements in which she...

Marek (Jirí Holý), formerly a driver of a long-distance lorry, has served his term for smuggling art works abroad and is released from...

Dramatic fates of people hidden behind a theatrical mask.

At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler...

A comedy about two bumbling policemen investigating an alleged rape in a small Czech town. One of the alleged rapists is supposed to get married the...

Shortly after the Velvet Revolution, everyone becomes an entrepreneur. The fields of business vary. Whether they are legal forms or, on the contrary,...

Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This...

A comedy about the love of the Czech nobleman Záviš of Falkenštejn for the Hungarian princess Kunhuta, who later married...

The idea of mystery unites the three debut stories - the original Bermuda Triangle with its mysterious phenomena has begun to shift and can be traced...

Otakar Vávra dedicated his latest film to events accompanying the devastation of the first World War. It takes place in representative centers...

A West German businessman Friedrich Schmidt is arriving to Czechoslovakia with private mission and mission for Intelligence service. He wants to...

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

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