Jan Schmid Movies

The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his sixtieth birthday party by the news from the...

A commemorative and essayistic meditative piece on the Prague quarter Libeň during the 1950s.

Jazz musician and trumpeter Beno is originally Slovak, but has been living in Prague for a long time. As a true bohemian, he does not recognize any...

As the Khmer Rouge carves a path of death throughout the land, a Czech doctor falls in love with a Cambodian woman. Their relationship, though sorely...

Journalist E. E. Kisch tells crime stories from old Prague, which he himself experienced in the years before World War I and recorded in his reports...

The popular Moravanka brass band performs at the fair. Vasek Pivoňka, the bandleader of the local brass band Kulatěnky, which broke up,...

Once again, you can take a look behind the scenes of the Riviera Chateau on the Prague periphery, where a brothel for the socialites is hidden under...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our history textbooks try to tell us? What if Master Jan...

A Czech film about love and marital crisis as a work injury.

Approaches to important life values can vary: while the top athlete who has made it in cycling tries to monetise his talent, his brother cannot...

Antonín Maděra receives an offer to leave prison because a review of sentences from the 1950s has found that he was unjustly convicted....

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

Bedřich Smetana's famous opera based on Karel Sabina's libretto, as performed by a rural ensemble, occasionally interrupted by Antonín...

This is funny or rather crazy adaptation of classical opera Carmen inspired by famous czech theatre Ypsilon play of the same name shot at various...

A bitterly funny look at the beginning of a young teacher's career, based on Halina Pawlowska's first screenplay, which she wrote while still a...

A young engineer, Štěpán Pavlík, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut.

Matěj Hůrka, a teenage bricklayer's apprentice, a young man who is delicate in matters of love, lives with his grandmother in a country...

A smaller town has its own newspaper. The editor, Stanek, works there and is concerned with status and a comfortable life. His teenage son has his...