Václav Švorc Movies

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver.

A biographical film about the famous Czech painter Mikoláš Aleš, portrayed as part of the vanguard of the working class and a...

Chytilová was not allowed to direct films between 1969 and 1976. The sole exception was the made-for-TV film Kamarádi, now virtually...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a charming comedy by W. Shakespeare, well-known from its numerous stage and film adaptations. In the course of one...

Shortly before the end of World War II, a small town is home to a portly miller who bears an uncanny resemblance to the tall Nazi leader. Of course,...

Antonín Kachlík wanted to make committed films about the moral dilemmas of the working class, but in the era of normalisation, he could...

At the end of August, a young woman is chased by an angry mob of hooligans under the windows of a bus because she decides to tear down a poster...

It is 1920, political unrest is growing in Prague and the Social Democrats are about to betray their historic mission by prioritising their own...

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

The innkeeper Barnabáš and the teacher Isidor Slovíčko succumb to the lure of old Moreles, to whom the young Taussig sends...

In the thick woods at the edge of the Bohemian Forest, two border guards are keeping watch - rifleman Kucera (Rudolf Jelínek) and dog handler...

The film, in individual episodes, captures the fate of Bedřich Smetana from 1856 until the end of his life, from his young years until the...

Engineer Pavel Hnyk is successful at work, but not very happy in his private life. He is approaching his fiftieth birthday and he can't shake the...

At the center of the crime story is the very large Kremp family, living in the family villa with other relatives and a subtenant. The parents had...

A biographical film about a Czech mechanic and designer who was the first in the Czech lands to construct a steam car.

Set in a 1950s Moravian wine village, an elderly Josef, guided by his quirky life philosophy and humor, recalls key moments from his past. Across...