Václav Knop Movies

In a godforsaken cave, a traveling journeyman fills his pockets with gold. Voita lost his father and mother in the war and is now seeking his fortune...

Even a college education does not protect against temptation—the young hero ceases to distinguish between right and wrong, but strangely...

An extraordinary event occurs at a rural pharmacy. Pharmacy manager Sychra discovers that one of the pharmacy staff has mixed peroxide into the...

At the age of twenty-eight, Karel Havlíček Borovský is at the height of his fame and political influence. He owns the largest...

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot),...

In the film, the creative forces of personalities from three spheres of art collide. The subtitle "The Game of Love and Hate" refers to the...

The top sport was also closely monitored in the communist era, and officials were naturally bothered that the pentathlon team failed to win the World...

An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric...

Anyone who claims that you can't live with half a heart should be invited to a fairy tale about a king who once gained a crown in exchange for half...

Bohemia, 1835. Traveling between Prague and the countryside, young poet Karel Hynek Mácha navigates political disillusionment, a turbulent...

The Spanish king marries the beautiful, clever and poor Charlotte, who is jealous not only of himself but especially of his mother, who has had him...

The short stories about marriage that Vít Olmer wrote for Playboy magazine when Arnošt Lustig was its editor-in-chief are witty, often...

The film tells the story of an enthusiastic young man who joins a textile factory in the late 1950s and assumes that a promising career awaits him -...

A serial killer murders wealthy businessmen. He lures them to his sprawling estate under the pretext of selling it. However, one of the murders does...

In the late 1980s, several films were made that wanted to come to terms with the crimes of Stalinism, but they did so with a very alibi - they...

A story about a life of a group of children in the foster home.