Karel Mareš Movies

A verger, who likes to dress as a priest, is invited, by one of the villagers, to be the pastor at a vacant church. The atheist teacher resents the...

Rambling Engelbert: 1973 Czechoslovakian T.V. movie musical

This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world...

It is summer 1944. The war is far away from Slovak mountains for the time being. The head of forest management Borodác brings a new employee...

The popular folk singer Jaro Zárubecký, a former waiter, follows the motto "A man is not what he is, but what people think of him", and...

The story takes place in a retirement home and creates a mosaic of the lives of old people who are trying to find a relationship with themselves and...

Švand, a room painter from Strakonice, begins a dizzying career as a pop music star, but he soon discovers that fame is not the most important...

A young man from a poor proletarian family successfully graduates from university, meets a girl who grew up in an orphanage - and surprises his...

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 firemen of a provincial Czechoslovakian town throw a ball in honor of the old chief's retirement. There will be music and dancing, a beauty...

At the funeral of his schoolmate, the nearly-fifty-year old architect Jirí Mánek (Václav Voska) meets his former close...

Autumn 1944. A doctor is accused in the collaboration with the Nazis and found guilty...

The film from 1976, a film that is exemplary in its devotion to the canons of normalised cinema, is the work of director Stanislav Strnad. He brought...

Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl...

Even in 1970, films were made, prepared in previous years and expressing the poetics of that time. Ivan Renč created an almost protocol parable,...