Jan Schmid Movies

Funny banter about love, sex, social status, and other ideals, while a new railway employee is trained and sent on his first run as driver.

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...

The waitress Gita from the hotel "Bobí vrch" approaches her lover who has not left his wife yet and gives him an ultimatum: if he does not do...

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...

The hero of the story is a forty-something intellectual, a sensitive composer of classical music. His exclusive profession, his work, which is...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

The evils of totalitarianism provide the central message of this Czech-French drama. The film is set in a quiet, rural village headed by a...

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

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...