Josef Elsner Movies

This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Giller

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daniela Kolářová

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

Genre: History

Cast: Jaromír Hanzlík

Horn tries to forget the insult caused to his beloved and builds a hut on an island inhabited by a small colony recently founded by the now drunken...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Juozas Budraitis

The photographer and his wife, a former beauty queen, make a living casting death masks. But their obsession goes so far that they decide to cast the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Josef Kemr

A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the implementation of collectivized agriculture and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jana Brejchová

In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elo Romančík

American agents hijack a plane on the Ostrava-Prague route to launch a campaign against the People's Democratic Czechoslovakia. The plane lands in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiří Dohnal

Thirteen-year-old Jenda, whose father is the leader of an illegal movement in a small town at the end of World War II, proves his bravery and sense...

Genre: War

Cast: Vladimír Janura

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Kačer