Ilja Prachař Movies

Viktor Průcha, a successful small-town architect, lives well but knows his comfort rests on compromises. When an elderly man—whose...

The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.

​In 1947 Prague, Holocaust survivor Dita lives in a hostel for orphans, acting as a protective mentor to a younger girl while failing to fix...

During World War II, dogs were trained in special centres for guard duty in concentration camps. However, one of the prisoners domesticates a female...

Three blue collar workers have a night out in big city Prague.

A movie about Czechoslovak border guards trying to arrest the famous escapee called "King of the Sumava".

Three small short stories, each of which was created by one of the famous Czechoslovak filmmakers of children's films: Magdalena, Fraud and Karp.

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided to hold a traditional ball despite the ban....

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot),...

Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and...

A day in the life of Arnošt, a soldier staying in Josefov. A sense of desperation permeates the environment as well as the mind of the...

Cyril Dadák (Václav Postránecký), a TV reporter falls in love at first sight with a young engineer Milena (Jaroslava...

A group of wealthy American Jewish businessmen have been captured by the SS and are told that they are to be traded to the American army for several...

It doesn't help to have an exacerbated situation like a family losing their only son - killed in a motorcycle accident. His parents, however, don't...

Screen adaptation of Julius Fucik's story about communist fighters.

The years of Mánes' studies at art schools and on the period when the mature and distinctive artist was already promoting his concept of a new...

Loosely inspired by a real criminal court case. It took place in Prague and the Tatra Mountains between 1926 and 1928 and was later described as one...