Jan Oliva Movies
- 1970
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders6.961970HD
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...
- 1981
Run, Waiter, Run!
Run, Waiter, Run!7.11981HD
A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and...
- 1973
Rodeo
Rodeo01973HD
- 1980
Escape Home
Escape Home61980HD
A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.
- 1966
The Murderer Hides His Face
The Murderer Hides His Face6.11966HD
In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died...
- 1971
Lucie and the Miracles
Lucie and the Miracles4.71971HD
The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slapstick comedy in this story of an orphan girl....
- 1968
Bohous
Bohous8.31968HD
Alois, manager of a remote mountain inn, loses his maid when she can’t stand his oversized Saint Bernard, Bohouš. When a ravenous guest...
- 1965
Courage for Every Day
Courage for Every Day5.91965HD
A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.
- 1985
Holka na krátkou trať
Holka na krátkou trať01985HD
Sometimes it's hard to understand what's important in life... The main character of the story, young Magda, works in a small textile factory in North...
- 1981
Blob to the Fairytale
Blob to the Fairytale51981HD
Little Vendulka receives a birthday gift of a seemingly innocuous children's book. Little she knows that the book is actually a portal into the...
- 1977
Smoke on the Potato Fields
Smoke on the Potato Fields6.61977HD
In this character study by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil, a stout middle-aged physician whose marriage has come apart establishes a practice in a...
- 2007
Golden Eels
Golden Eels6.62007HD
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...
- 1965
Adventures with a Naked Boy
Adventures with a Naked Boy51965HD
A man boards on a tram together with a naked boy. Somebody has stolen the boy's clothes when he was out bathing, leaving him with not even change for...
- 1975
The Motive for Murder
The Motive for Murder3.51975HD
A short story film depicting the three different faces of crime. In the short story "The Weekend", Karas kills a woman he raped some time ago in...
- 1980
Payment in Kind
Payment in Kind5.31980HD
In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...
- 1987
Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker
Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker6.3461987HD
Pohádka o mladém ševcovském tovaryšovi Jírovi, který si vyrobil z jemné kůže...
- 1978
Proč nevěřit na zázraky
Proč nevěřit na zázraky01978HD
Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it is a twelve-year-old village boy who experiences...
- 1982
Attention, Rounds!
Attention, Rounds!6.81982HD
A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.
- 1978
Nechci nic slyšet
Nechci nic slyšet5.51978HD
An 11-year-old boy is the only survivor of a tragic car accident in which both parents are killed. It's not until he meets a travelling student...
- 1972
And Give My Love to the Swallows
And Give My Love to the Swallows4.71972HD
This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she...