Jan Oliva Filmes

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the...

A poignant overview of how short life can be, this interesting drama from Czech director Vojetch Jasny is divided into four separate segments. In the...

A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and...

A man boards on a tram together with a naked boy. Somebody has stolen the boy's clothes when he was out bathing, leaving him with not even change for...

This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she...

Lieutenant VB, disguised as a laborer, is looking for a young woman killer among the staff of a wheel loader. But which of the possible motives found...

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.

The harsh reality of a home for abandoned children blends with episodes of youthful fantasy and slapstick comedy in this story of an orphan girl....

The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them....

In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...

A story about an everyday life of an inflectional department of Prague hospital.

Michal's father and his friends are stigmatized by their war experience and the post-war social deformations in which they took part either directly,...

Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful novel Looking Back. He meets with the novel's...

A story about young girl Hanka who doesn't have parents and is forced to spend most of her time in a hospital bed.

Three short stories. Prague finally sees the approval of the subway construction. Thousands of individuals took part in preparing, course and...