Jaroslav Průcha Movies

A 1931 Czechoslovak black-and-white comedy film based on Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk.

Venice Film Festival 1937

"Grandmother" is a highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. It's a classical, compulsory reading in...

In early 20th century Czechoslovakia, a gravely ill chemist recalls his discovery of a powerful explosive and how it landed in the hands of...

When Vilem appears in the road with an unconscious young woman, it disturbs the peaceful life of three generations of the Balvínova family.

The doomed love of a city girl caught in the vise of poverty is detailed in Vavra’s fluid, romantic work, one of the most elegant creations of...

A czech film that focuses on an unfaithful husband who married in to money, as well as an impoverished man who is turns to theft.

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery...

Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.

A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it...

Venice Film Festival 1940

Small stories from a grammar school.Děj je poskládán z celé řady epizod, které během jednoho...

Venice Film Festival 1939

Ríša, a student of law, neglects his studies in favour of parties and pranks. His angry father refuses to continue helping him out of...

Seventh form pupils at a grammar school in Přívlaky are preparing for a secondary school sports competition. Class creep Krhounek gives...

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

A Milk-Cannery baron, Jakub Simonides, is broken by the Canned Milk-Trust and, in his wanderings with a worker, Filip Kornet, he discovers he still...