Věra Váchová Movies

An upholsterer who is preparing a rocket for takeoff accidentally jettisons himself into space and returns to Earth 500 years later with an alien...

In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when...

The history of the rebellion of the brave Chody, led by Jan Sladký Kozina and Matěj Přibek, against the violent tyranny of the...

A poor miner, Kuba Dařbuján, cares for his wife Markýtka and eleven children. When a newborn arrives, he seeks a godfather and,...

An official of a declining hockey club has a tip for a prodigy shooter: a young teacher Havranek is famous for his hits in a fairground shooting...

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...

Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building's attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German...

A biographical film about a Czech doctor, Dr. Jánský. The athletically inclined medic Jánský successfully completes 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...

It all starts when two men arrive at the asylum. Mr. Houdek, who goes to see little Honzik Slavata, the illegitimate child of his colleague, whom he...

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.

The suffocating conditions in a bourgeois family were depicted in several films in the second half of the 1950s - this one is one of the lesser...

Early Days follows the early life of famous Czech writer Alois Jirásek. Jirásek had already developed his own view of the history of...

An anthology of three absurd, ironic tales inspired by Čapek’s “Tales from One Pocket” and “Fables and Side...

Two poor students, Strnad and Křepelka, console themselves with the fact that Křepelka is to inherit, but it later turns out that the...

Film shows the struggle of the Czechoslovak armed forces against groups of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) under command Burlak, who tried to pass...

American agents hijack a plane on the Ostrava-Prague route to launch a campaign against the People's Democratic Czechoslovakia. The plane lands in...

Mr. Čap is an inventor who disturbs the peace of the town of Krásnov with his experiments. During his attempts to discover the eternal...

A story about the conditions in Bohemia in the second half of the nineteenth century, when small-town officials, such as Hrdlička, succumbed to...