Jan Čuřík Movies

An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in...

A Czech psychological film about the school of life, its sorrows and beauties. The main character is a young aspiring nurse Marie Sahulová,...

An American spy agency located in West Germany is interested in information concerning Czechoslovak commercial activities in the Middle East. Agent...

In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he...

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them....

In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint....

The fate of a tank crew on the most difficult part of the First Czechoslovak Independent Brigade's combat path during World War II. We also follow...

The story is about Harold, an isolated figure in an overwhelming world of totalitarian bureaucracy. Harold tries to find the elusive Joseph Kilian,...

Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and...

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided to hold a traditional ball despite the ban....

After inheriting a villa from his uncle, Emil Tuma meets its strange inhabitants, getting him in trouble.

The hesitant shooter becomes a timid young man who only the war will make a real man.

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...

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly,...

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...

This wacky musical comedy builds on absurd ideas, parodic humour and many variously subverted references to famous...

The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

At the centre of the story is Miss Lenka Stříbrná. An attractive, but a little strange young woman. The gym teacher Vasek is shy...