František Šindelář Movies

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

In a small village in the Chodsko region, people live with daily worries about making a living. Many are dependent on work on the estate. Only the...

In 1911, Stáňa Járský was giving music lessons to little Jiřina Horníková and fell passionately in love...

Theater props maker Karel Vajgant has a young wife, Magda, and two children, seven-year-old Pavlík and eleven-year-old Pepička. Magda is...

Baker Jan Racek (Vladimír Repa) is a very hard-working and sensible man. His great passion is pigeon-keeping and also, for many years, Ruzenka...

Shortly before the end of World War II, a small town is home to a portly miller who bears an uncanny resemblance to the tall Nazi leader. Of course,...

The title refers to the office of records in the basement of a large company... sort of the place where a troublesome employee may be dumped in a...

Thirteen people have gathered at Mayor Bartoš's. The company is uneasy about this number and therefore warmly welcomes the fourteenth guest,...

On a park bench, one gossip tells another the story of a young man who has just passed by. His mother Helena was a beautiful and talented singing...

Jana's beautiful niece arrives in Prague to live with two spinster aunts. Both women wish to marry her off. The son of the court councilor Petr is...

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

Cooperative members are harvesting crops, trying to get new water piping installed and preparing to plough away the field boundaries in autumn. Local...

Zdenka Sulanová has grown from a leggy frog into an attractive young lady in the two years since the success of Líza's Flight to...

At the end of the war, the old train driver Matys saves his beloved locomotive Líza from depth charges. However, the locomotive is damaged and...

In the garden of Hojtaš's estate, local dignitaries gather to watch a theatrical performance starring the author of the play, Dr. Pavel...

It's a crisp autumn morning. Marta prepares breakfast and goes to work. Little Jenda has a sore throat, so she has to go to her grandfather's to look...

Ing. Bernard announces that his wife has not returned from visiting relatives in Berlin. Lieutenant Tereza Machátová, who together with...

The young worker Helena Pokorná and her widowed father are employed in the same factory. The father is spending his holidays at home in Prague...