J. O. Martin Movies

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is...

The catastrophically dry weather of 1947 causes immense problems in the countryside. In the small village Klícov, only farmers Hánek...

The family of the worker Kučera lives happily. His daughter Anežka, engaged to technical draftsman Adolf, is a seamstress. His son...

An old peasant from Chodský, Záhor, claims to the young Podestát that he returned three hundred gold pieces to his father before...

A socialist drama from the time of the February coup. The owner of the brickyard will use several workers before February in order to subvert worker...

The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The...

Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertising slides and a "newspaper", we see "the...

Four short stories by the greatest Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek. "Soup for Poor Children" tells the story of how Prince Robert himself cooked...

Czech film tells the story of a border town in World War II. Family members and friends become enemies.

The plump, punctual and slightly despotic Mr. Tříška worked as a housing officer, which completely damaged his psychological...

In the past, most of the wood from the mountain forests was transported to the sawmills by river. The rafters were gradually replaced by trucks and...

Human bravery can take many forms, just as ideas about it can. Small-town public opinion begins to despise a postal clerk because he gave cash to...

After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving their homes to help build the...

The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.

"The Rally" is based on a communist writer Vaclav Řezáč's well-written novel of the same name

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