Václav Švorc Movies

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

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

The accountants at a agricultural cooperative near Prague have completed the calculation of wages. The driver with the cashier are leaving for a bank...

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.

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...

In 1944, the popular film actress Hlínová is arrested by the Gestapo for sheltering a Resistance man. A film producer uses his...

The unlucky cultural officer of a spa facility gets involved in compromising situations against his will - and he was originally only after a...

Petr Rynes (Svatopluk Matyás) is celebrating his forty-fifth birthday in the company of his friends. He is happy with his wife, and his...

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

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

In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building...

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

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...

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...

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