Jan Kohout Movies

A socialist drama from the time of the February coup. The owner of the brickyard will use several workers before February in order to subvert worker...

A grotesque story from the history of the film business. The owner of a second-rate rental company offers rural cinema operators a novelty - a...

A crime writer is accused of being too imaginative and his ideas unworkable, but everything changes when an international criminal demands his...

Set in a village, the story of a simple-minded, not-so-responsible young man who still manages to take care of his younger siblings after their...

Documentary by Jan Kadar

Documentary by Jan Kadar

A ballad drama set in a rural setting, set in a foothill area, where farmers struggle with harsh natural conditions and their own inner hardness. The...

Elén, a girl living with her mother and stepfather in a secluded forest, has a great singing talent. On her twenty-first birthday, she runs...

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

The Slovak National Uprising, as the purgatory of a compromised nation in Ján Kadár’s accounting film.

The story of young boys who have proven their loyalty to the republic unfolds in the setting of a boarding school for miners' apprentices. A tunnel...

Will a young widow's determination to spend the rest of her life alone hold up when an uncouth but nevertheless attractive man bursts into her house?...