Josef Chvalina Movies

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

A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets...

A colour-printed melodramatic selanca from the beginnings of the organised labour movement in Bohemia... Antonín Zápotocký, the...

When Dr. Hahn is found murdered in the hospital’s inspection room, investigators question several suspects: his colleague and longtime lover...

An innkeeper is grieving because his wife left him for a second-rate actor. His two nephews, who are not on speaking terms, have to take over the...

A loose sequel to the film Little Bobes, it catches up with the title child hero in the town where he and his parents have moved. However, the...

Hairdresser Žofka Stárková desires fame perhaps more than other girls. The petty plans of her fiancé František do...

A satire about trying to please "those at the top".

A short film about Prague, Prague residents, and the beginning of the weekend.

Worker Šebesta does not rejoice with the others in the May Day parade, as his boots are weighing him down. The following working day does not...

A detective story revolving around an ancient treasure from the ninth century, believed to have been destroyed during World War II, takes place in an...

Karel Kubat, the successful director of the Globus printing house, learns on his fiftieth birthday that he has a serious heart condition. The bad...

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

Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central...

A detective drama set just before the unification of our physical education system. Criminal investigators investigate the murder of a football club...

The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I.

During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every...