Vlastimil Čaněk Movies

In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building...

Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state.

The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding the great...

Based on a real event - the shooting of a group of working-class children on 20 April 1930 in Radotín. Thirteen-year-old Boženka‘s...

The story of a young man who found the meaning of love and a place in life at the cost of a loss.

A dramatic story about the devastation of the environment and human character.

A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on...

It is 1920, political unrest is growing in Prague and the Social Democrats are about to betray their historic mission by prioritising their own...

In the bleak autumn mountains of the Beskydy Mountains, a dramatic story set in the wartime November 1944 takes place. Seven refugees join forces...

A short story film in which the first story takes place at the end of the German occupation, when a resistance fighter is arrested while transporting...

Even ideology permeated the children's stories: the beginnings of forced collectivisation in the village are seen through the eyes of a young boy. As...

A political drama dealing with the issues of contemporary construction and highlighting the various relationships within the party apparatus.

A group of children is trying to solve a mystery related to the diamonds smuggling.

A psychological study of the life of a woman, a working mother of two young children. The film captures a small slice of her life, just one day,...

When former criminal Gaudl discovers the strange behaviour of his son-in-law Professor Horacek, he becomes worried about his daughter Hedwig and...

At the beginning, the newly arrived soldiers form a musical theatre troupe to escape the humiliation of the older ones. They vow that they will be...

The drama of a man for whom work has become the only meaning of life. His cold and impersonal manner arouses the disapproval of his colleagues and...