Václav Kotva Movies

February 1948. The struggle of decisive social forces for the heart of Europe.

King Černomysl has four daughters and one son, who is just celebrating his 17th birthday. The king intends to find him a bride, but the prince...

The future communist journalist Julius Fučík had a stimulating childhood and youth in a working-class environment, when his moral...

A petrol pump is run by a permanent team: the manager Vávra, a former civil engineer ing. Stejskal, a smug crook named Karafa, and an old man,...

The short story film follows the fate of three young men who will soon have to decide what to do with their lives. The first "Poet", an aspiring...

A TV adaptation of Zuzka Zguriška's novel of the same name. The story takes place in a characterful Slovak village. It shows a picture of the...

Although the title would suggest it, this film has nothing to do with fairy tales at all: it takes place in the North Moravian border region just...

The story of Saint Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia, based on Josef Kajetán Tyl's stage play "Bloody Baptism".

At the end of the occupation, Vojta, a young worker, marries the daughter of a rich builder to protect her from being deployed to the German Reich....

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...

In May 1945, a broken violinist lies drunk by a creek, haunted by memories of his life before and during WWII. Once the celebrated first violin in...

A cruel picture of the ways in which human beings acquire power and then cling to it. The story of Father Ubu, an idiot who climbs over the bodies of...

The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding the great...