Karel Smyczek Movies

A story that takes place during Advent, we'll meet again with your favorite pair angel Petronel and devil Urias. Their eternal wrangling causes the...

A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89), a genius of world cinema, a wizard of special effects, revealing...

After their young daughter dies suddenly from a viral infection, Marie and Petr struggle to cope with the silence and emptiness left in their...

It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. For them this is the year one. One of them,...

When a comet passes the Earth at close range, it pulls a small part of North Africa with it. Carried along are a bunch of people, among them...

Widowed yeoman Tuma and his household are on their way to help the town of Kourim, which is under attack by the papist troops. His son Ondra is...

A dramatic action film about stuntmen who perform the most dangerous stunts in the film world. One day, however, one of them is struck by a family...

Frantík arrives in Prague for the holidays and discovers an abandoned tram named Terezka. With local children, he secretly paints and hides it...

She was once the wife of an important man, lived in a beautiful house in Hradčany, and was friends with the famous race car driver Eliška...

Famed outlaw Lotrando sends his son to a strict Catholic boarding school to learn manners, but the boy becomes too polite to lead the band. When they...

Honza Pavelka (Jan Hrusínský) wins the junior motorbike speed races. His thirteen-year-old brother Martin (Roman Cada), his assistant...

An 11-year-old boy is the only survivor of a tragic car accident in which both parents are killed. It's not until he meets a travelling student...

The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr...

A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with...

Why? (Czech: Proč?) is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Smyczek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988...

Several big-city teenagers are falsely accused of vandalizing a valuable organ, casting light on the hypocrisy of the adult world.

The Czech film Svítalo All Night was made to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Army and is...

A quarter century after the release of the original film, this sequel brings us a drama about platonic love, life retrospective and memories. Former...

The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film...

Alienation between the closest relatives is always a serious disorder of family judgment. Father and son not only do not see each other, but one does...