František Peterka Movies

A rumour that a large holiday resort is supposedly being built on the banks of the local pond causes confusion among the villagers.

Biography of Karel Čapek.

A story set in Tsarist Russia, set in a manor house. The main character is the mute Gerasim, who lives in a touching friendship with his dog Mumu....

Ostrava - Kunčice , 1953: on the same day as the manifestation funeral for J. V. Stalin, the funeral of Brigadier Bédi Nevěřil,...

A communist agent, who has successfully caught on with the stupidly gullible American secret services, does not have it easy - he is threatened with...

Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive movie, conceived by Radúz Činčera for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo '67 in...

It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác...

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.

American agents hijack a plane on the Ostrava-Prague route to launch a campaign against the People's Democratic Czechoslovakia. The plane lands in...

The story of young boys who have proven their loyalty to the republic unfolds in the setting of a boarding school for miners' apprentices. A tunnel...

A divorced single mother romances a young slaughterhouse worker, must to the chagrin of her ex-husband.

An optimistic collective drama from the life of the workers on the construction site of the Youth Track. An amnestied prisoner wants to atone for his...

When Dr. Hahn is found murdered in the hospital’s inspection room, investigators question several suspects: his colleague and longtime lover...

The shoemaker, Lájošek Cína, is a naive good-for-nothing with his heart on his sleeve, who, as the day grows long, never leaves...

A fictionalized account of Czech soldiers who fought for the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam.

Albrechtice near Jablonec. Sixteen-year-old Pavlínka Linková lives with her grandmother Barbara, a local midwife who raised her after...

This forgotten detective story starring Svatopluk Beneš focuses on those ills of the past regime that were allowed to be glossed over - mainly...