Jan Hrušínský

Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it is a twelve-year-old village boy who experiences...

Student Eva is dashing up a steep slope to try to catch a bus, but she twists her ankle and the bus doesn't wait. There won't be another bus until...

A teenage witch, frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, finds herself in a modern world.

A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true events.

The Slippers of Happiness is another film made by the Slovak Film Production in co-production with West German companies based on classic world fairy...

In one town lived a bookseller named Bartoloměj. He loved his work and was content with his life, but there was one thing missing: a lovely wife....

Bittersweet comedy about four teenage boys, their friends, parents, lovers - from the moment when they are 15 to moment when they are 18. Story is...

How it will end? Let's just tell you that on one side of the mountain, the stream that had run before it dries up, and on the other side of the...

Little Rehor isn't allowed to play with the other boys. His only friend is the girl next door, Luci. Rehor's father is doctor on a boat and he has...

Three hundred years after she fled the Witch Academy for love, Saxána has settled into a comfortable human life with her husband and daughter, until...

A friendship made at the international pioneer camp in Artek is sealed by the gift of a live bear cub... Educators feared that the film might inspire...

Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occasionally take care the grandparents and Honza's...

Honza Pavelka (Jan Hrusínský) wins the junior motorbike speed races. His thirteen-year-old brother Martin (Roman Cada), his assistant and biggest...

In a godforsaken cave, a traveling journeyman fills his pockets with gold. Voita lost his father and mother in the war and is now seeking his fortune...

In SIRIUS, a young boy whose most cherished companion is his loyal German shepherd devises his own form of resistance when the Nazis arrest his...

A classic comedy about long-planned courtship and the fear of getting married once and for all performed by actors from Prague's Divadlo Na Jezerce...

The popular folk singer Jaro Zárubecký, a former waiter, follows the motto "A man is not what he is, but what people think of him", and that is how...

Teenage Peter doesn't get along with his strict father. And when his father sells his beloved bitch Irina, he feels lonely. Therefore, he easily...

When little Jirka Novák and his classmate Zdeněk's family take part in a merry Santa Claus journey through the city, he has no idea how important a...

Doctor Adéla Neradová, a medical doctor, has succumbed to the desire to uncover a criminal and become a kind of Sherlock Holmes in skirts. The...

Pavel and Eva are two teenagers who live a happy life full of McDonald's food, action movies and pop music. But one night, Pavel stumbles upon a...

Prince Victor looks in vain for a swan which was wounded by one of his servants. Instead he discovers a beautiful girl with golden hair who has an...

Erben's original text, which did not exceed half a page in length, served Zelenka only as a source of inspiration to write a plot-rich story about...

Jana is forced to live in a foster home and always dreams about family reunion.

During the change of functions in the Fortuna medical ceramics company, Bohouš Fisher, an independent clerk, became deputy director of the company...

A fairy tale about three princes, enchanted into dog form... The shepherd Jirka is herding sheep when a mysterious hunter with three dogs named Drž,...

The Slippers of Happiness is another film made by the Slovak Film Production in co-production with West German companies based on classic world fairy...

An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in...

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find...

Marcela can't bear Jarda any longer, so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom's, whose husband is a creep. While Marcela is there,...

The story from a small Czech mountain village takes place over five days in February 1948 and describes the fate of a young couple, Tomáš and...

Victorie Stastná fulfills her dream of studying acting at the academy in Prague. But she soon discovers that her original ideals don't match with...

Irena is the energetic owner of a thriving business. However, after a serious car accident, she decides to sell her company and donate the proceeds...

The film is not merely a record of rehearsals, but above all an intimate look at the relationships between its individual protagonists. Nor is it a...

Radio correspondent Karel Beran returns briefly to Prague from the Middle East due to an anonymous tip, but a revolution suddenly breaks out in...

A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.

A short film based on the book by Slovak author Pavol Zeleňák, "Keď sú tajomstvá iba služobné" (When Secrets Are Only Official). In four...

In the film, the creative forces of personalities from three spheres of art collide. The subtitle "The Game of Love and Hate" refers to the...

Based on a play by French playwright Georges Feydeau. This comedy, often defined as a farce, has an incredible pace, with its transformations...

At long last, King Dalimil and Queen Eliška have produced an heir, Princess Růženka. Consumed with envy, Eliška’s sister Melánie casts a...

Who is this confident man who, with unusual elegance and surprising professionalism, began working at the reception desks of the highest government...

A narration of episodes from the life of the famous Czech poet, Karel Hynek Mácha. Throughout the film, we witness a deep analysis of Mácha's...

A detective fairy tale about a mysterious robbery and somewhat confusing courtship.

A handsome young shepherd stumbles across a magical golden fern in the forest. A stunning, enigmatic forest fairy named Lesanka is sent to retrieve...

Young musicians unexpectedly find themselves face to face with the practices of the underworld and the mafia.

Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cobbler named Vincenc Bursik (Vladimir Mensik), who...

A tale based on novel by Czech writer Bozena Nemcova.

Her mother dead, 18-year-old Vladka travels to a remote village in the dead of winter to find the father she has never met. The happiness of their...

Czechoslovakia 1918. The newly formed National Assembly has made Stoklasa the administrator of the Kratochvile Castle. Although with no aristocratic...

Let's go to the kingdom, where a ball is being held, where the most beautiful prince is to get engaged to the richest princess. But he only thinks...

Six-year-old Anička Čejková has moved with her parents from the village to a new housing estate in Prague. For now, she and her father are alone,...

In a Czech school friendship grows between a teacher and a student. The friendship turns into an intimate relationship. Till the student begin to...

As the name suggests, the movie is about football. It is not about big league soccer, making huge money. It is about football, which lives just from...

In 1976 a famous American writer Nathan Zuckerman is challenged by Czech immigrant Sisovsky who implores him to retrieve valuable manuscripts from...

A seemingly complicated story about the search for the murderer of two dead people who are first found, only to disappear again shortly afterwards....

The story, set mainly in the picturesque surroundings of a First Republic swimming pool, offers many surprises in the form of unexpected performances...

A budding teacher comes from Prague to the South Bohemian district town where her fiancé Jakub, a young promising engineer at the local paper mill,...

It's New Year's Eve afternoon and Honza, Jana and Zdeněk decide to go out into the karst area. Despite the express ban, one of them goes down into...

Oldřich Brůna always had a soft spot for women, but when he met Ljuba Pelíšková, he immediately realized that he had encountered an...

When he returns to Prague from a stint in the Army, Lada does not seem to fit in anywhere, and he cannot get the hang of the system of deliberately...

After her mother's death, Lada lives alone with her father, the king, who prefers to spend time with the ladies of the court and has no time for his...

A comedy about erotically addicted men is therapy for everyone, especially those who think they don't need therapy. At a session for erotically...

A tale of a boy whose desire to correct human vices was stronger than the power of hell itself. Apolena, a herbalist, finds an abandoned newborn baby...

By some quirk of fate, the two small-time thieves and the spoiled princess find themselves in the Black Forest full of magic beings who believe that...

In a seaside village, fishermen have no catch and are starving. The bravest of them, Azmun, sets off to the land of the "sea grandfather" to help...

After the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops, everyone is packing their bags to leave the country. Martin Ivánek, who has just been...

Three short stories ("Zelenáči 1945", "Silvestr 1948" and "Zimní vítr 1951") about members of the SNB units guarding the Šumava border in the...

A funny adventures of a group of children who plan to leave their village in go for the sea trip.

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...

A documentary exploring the life and career of acclaimed Czech director and screenwriter Václav Vorlíček (1930–2019), known for his imaginative...

According to family legend, the name Hrušínský was born after Rudolf and Jan Hrušínský's grandfather Rudolf Böhm was caught stealing pears on...