Petr Svojtka Movies

This wacky musical comedy builds on absurd ideas, parodic humour and many variously subverted references to famous...

It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác...

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided to hold a traditional ball despite the ban....

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

The economic crisis in the early 1930s also affected the inhabitants of the distinctive Moravian-Slovak countryside. The protagonist and his family...

In the 1950s, selected basic soldiers in a small border unit guard the western border with devotion, fighting intruders and uncovering their network...

A dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to...

In the early 1970s, the class struggle flared up in full force on the big screen - the hero of this film, set in the interwar period, is a staunch...

An anthology in three jazz-infused tales: an idealistic student’s romance with a pragmatic trumpeter; a vibraphonist’s urgent journey...

Everyone says he is incorrigible... Little Robert is an only child who has everything, he needed to be responsible for something, to take care of...

Television play

The drama of a man for whom work has become the only meaning of life. His cold and impersonal manner arouses the disapproval of his colleagues and...