Jindřich Plachta Movies

A Carl Lamac directed movie based on a novel by Karel Václav Rais.

Rudolf Měšťák’s silent film The Prague Executioner, based on the novel of the same name by Josef Svátek, is a...

Film about famous poet Karel Hynek Mácha

Small stories from a grammar school.

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

The original painting of the White Lady has gone missing from the castle hall. A group of village boys decide to track down the real perpetrator of...

In "Fidlovacka", the name of a Czechoslovakian festival, the proprietress of a cheese factory picks a fiancé for her orphaned niece in her...

The owner of a fashion factory, Rafael Klučina, is desperately looking for an imaginative advertising campaign that would attract the public and...

A graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy, Karel Stržický earns extra money in the summer as a day laborer for the landowner Drahan....

Cashier Ferdyš Pištora goes to rob the villa of banker Rosenštok. At that moment, a fire breaks out and Ferdyš saves the...

František Procházka was retired early because his soldiers sang a forbidden song about a c. and k. field marshal. Since he is a soldier...

The richest farmer and at the same time mayor Dubský and first councilman Bušek are constantly competing for supremacy. Their rivalry...

While street photographers Máček and Kalabis are vainly offering their services to passersby, a pair of cronies rob a jewelry store...

The case of Colonel Redl -- an officer blackmailed into spying by virtue of his homosexuality. Alternate-language version of "Der Fall des...

The story of high school students, talented Jan and Karel, who has a problem with math. Their life affects pedantic professor of mathematics Klec,...

The first film treatment of the fate of the good soldier Švejk, a dog dealer from Prague, who is arrested after the Sarajevo assassination,...