Karel Hovorka Movies

An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells the story of what happens when a series of mysterious events take place, including the...

Pavel is a Czech partisan fighter in the waning days of the war. Just as peace is declared, Pavel is shot in the spine and sent to the hospital...

In the spring of 1945, the last war clashes took place on the Czech-Moravian border. However, amidst the heavy gunfire, colourful boyhood adventures...

The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In his devotion to the Habsburg Monarchy, he...

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.

Spouses Vojta and Růžena Koskub are an ideal couple: they both love each other and are both doing well at work. But six months after their...

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

Ondrej lives on a farm outside a small town with his family. One day a group of men arrive at the family's house and the harmonious life they've led...

A robbery in a Prague jeweler's shop results in the shop manager Kubát and his deputy Litera being shot and wounded. The culprits take the...

The news that the television is going to make a film about the cooperative's leisure activities leads the locals to extraordinary social and sporting...

The difference in personalities and lifestyles is the core of Zdeněk Svěrák's hilarious comedy. The story of two elderly gentlemen...

A musical comedy about two indistinguishably similar siblings who love music, but each of them is completely different. Pavel Fořt is a...

As Nazi troops prepare to occupy the already truncated Czechoslovak Republic, a small military garrison made up of communists defies orders to...

The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very...

The forest worker František Hrubý, a poor, hard-working man, lives with his granddaughter in a lonely cottage. Despite being in his...

Exotic, yet lyrically aimed fairy tale about a young gypsy Pista in search of a beautiful, gentle and faithful bride. An old man told him where to...

The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík), the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the...

The three Potůčks live in a house in Ouplavice: a widower grandfather, a son whose wife has run away, and a still unmarried grandson. The...

At the beginning is a suicide attempt by sculptor Jiří Malek, which is foiled by a thief hidden in his apartment. Malek is thirty-five,...