Ladislav Potměšil Movies

In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gravely wounded political fugitive, putting himself...

Two happily married couple, Michal and Blanka, experience a regrettable misunderstanding: the wife leaves home with their young son, but...

In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic...

The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

The film, which opens with students arriving at a police academy, is a crazy comedy that is more a series of zany episodes and jokes than a coherent...

It all begins at Prague Airport, where American agents have brought Major Maisner, who has been expelled from the United States, in handcuffs. He...

Andula is the outspoken eldest daughter of a poor cottager. She has to take care of her siblings and the household and has a lot to do. She has no...

Two aspiring car racers have a big dream: they want to make a journey to the heart of Africa. But their value system is severely skewed, and one of...

An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into...

The year is 1943. The war is raging between the Germans and the Allies in North Africa. A truck with a Czech crew, Lieutenant Navara and six...

Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and...

Even under socialism, which proclaimed the equality of all people, there were status differences. A young bricklayer, who has fallen in love with a...

Kuba and Amálka love each other, but Kuba doesn't want to get married yet, which makes Amálka a little sad. When Kuba learns from her...

The fate of father and son Horáček, but this time they switched roles. Jirka has married, settled down and grown up, while his father is...

Serving a miserly farmer would be unbearable if Janos didn't have such a pretty and sweet daughter. He had fallen in love with her, and she would...

A pair of criminals, an escaped prisoner and a young thief, are about to make a joint, obviously illegal, escape across the border. They escape for a...

Chronicle of frontier division Czech police (SNB) in the years 1946 - 1949.