Movies: Vladimír Salač

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from ...

Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cobbler named Vincenc Bursik (Vladimir Mensik), who uproots his clan from the country to the city, only to suffer the loss of his wife and the failure of...

At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), dedicated to the Rudolphine-era scientist Jan Jesenius. He ended up on the scaffold along with other gentlemen after losing the anti-Habsburg uprising....

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Kastl is a hairdresser but his real passion is his second job as football referee. This job takes all his free time and makes his wife very nervous....

Emperor Francis Joseph I is about to arrive in Prague, and among those who came to Stromovka to welcome him is Veronika Pavlitová. She wants to submit a request for clemency for her imprisoned father to the emperor, because she is barely able to supp...

Deputy of cartography enterprise Mr. Ciruvka tries to seduce the colleague's assistant to destabilize his confident in a run for the director's chair. But things can go wrong....

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s....

Venice Film Festival 1939...

Sonya is the heiress to the riches of a Czech noble family—the Hajns. Petr, a social climber marries her, ignoring some shady goings-on—in particular, an insane uncle who prowls the mansion believing himself invisible, a peccadillo the family indulge...

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Mr. Angel goes winter sporting and at the same time investigates his son's fiancee....

Year of the Revolution 1848...

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A directors autobiography about his debut during the rise of socialism....

Autumn 1944. A doctor is accused in the collaboration with the Nazis and found guilty......

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A young doctor and a group of injured are hiding in an underground shelter and are liberated by Soviet soldiers....