Václav Knop Movies

In trouble with the mob, a criminal spots a golden opportunity when he meets a teacher who bears a striking resemblance to him.

Pan Tau, the friend of all children, now also helps the adults. A movie producer is in trouble and decides to shoot another Pan-Tau movie. But the...

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

Adam had his life ahead of him; all that was left was to finish his exams and apply to university. To fight off boredom and to feel relaxed and...

Antony is obsessed with the idea of a happy family life, but his young daughter has to be cared for by the parents of his wife, who died in a car...

The film tells the story of an enthusiastic young man who joins a textile factory in the late 1950s and assumes that a promising career awaits him -...

Charming 60-something José returns to Prague after 30 years living in Mexico, though he was convinced that he would never see his hometown...

The short stories about marriage that Vít Olmer wrote for Playboy magazine when Arnošt Lustig was its editor-in-chief are witty, often...

The top sport was also closely monitored in the communist era, and officials were naturally bothered that the pentathlon team failed to win the World...

The psychological story begins innocently enough with a meeting between two young people in the basement of a suburban house. A flirtatious and bored...

A story about a life of a group of children in the foster home.

Chytilová was not allowed to direct films between 1969 and 1976. The sole exception was the made-for-TV film Kamarádi, now virtually...

After arriving at the mysterious castle, the university professor begins to encounter a sequence of mysterious events, to which he reacts with his...

A young high school student is flying to Canada for a study abroad program. He is very excited and does not even notice the subconscious fear of his...

Even a college education does not protect against temptation—the young hero ceases to distinguish between right and wrong, but strangely...

At the age of twenty-eight, Karel Havlíček Borovský is at the height of his fame and political influence. He owns the largest...