Karel Houska Movies

Every one of us has certainly been in a situation for which he or she is not prepared and is not able to orient him or herself immediately and...

An animal lover father brings home a cuddlesome female chimp named Tereza from his latest around the world and adopts her as a pet...

Czechoslovak drama film about soldiers returning from World War II

A biographical film about a Czech doctor, Dr. Jánský. The athletically inclined medic Jánský successfully completes his...

Two families live in a weaver's cottage - the Menecs and the Hroms. The women are pretty from the start. Musicians come, inviting fellow weavers who...

In an unsightly tenement house, the walls of which are as peeling as the souls of the tenants, an old woman waits for her son to return from prison....

We learn that the greatest virtue of socialist competition is collective cooperation. This is what the young, physically fit assembler refuses to...

The inhabitants of a picturesque village proud of its ancient linden tree will be disturbed by a disturbing event - a temporary road diversion is...

Based on book by Svatopluk Turek.

The younger brother of a brave paratrooper killed by the Nazis joins a partisan unit to avenge his death. The story is still naive in many ways, but...

Building a bridge is no simple matter. The city council has to decide between two competing proposals, one of which is submitted by villainous...

An ideologically-oriented film set in a prestigious medical sanatorium - a young doctor sympathizes with the poor people of the area, helping workers...

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.

The ship's first officer, Karel Kip, and his brother, engineer Petr Kip, are convicted as mutineers for the mysterious murder of the captain of the...

The story of the chief prosecutor Dr. Klapka - a self-confident, cold-blooded, calculating man who lives in the comfort befitting his position - and...

The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the White Mountain disaster. It depicts his...