Josef Oliak

Professor Karas is widely known as enthusiastic propagator of the motto "Morality Above All Else". He guides his students as well as his own family...

A Czechoslovakian comedy directed by Carl Lamac and starring himself Theodor Pistek & Anny Ondra.

The Portorican prime minister asks British detective Sherlock Holmes to find a twin for King Fernando XXIII, a weak and frightened man who fears...

The gullible buyer Žemla Martin (Francis Smolik) finally opened his dream shop. After a while, you get a lot of friends. Especially the former...

The film depicts the troubles of Herr Verner ( Herr Karel Hasler ), a middle-aged bachelor dentist who wants to marry.

Skid-row epic about a lawyer's decline.

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

Directed by Carl Lamac.

The illegitimate child, Marie Růžová, grows up in the family of the Bořický miller. Childhood and youth spend with the...

Venice Film Festival 1938

The film depicts the adventures of Kacenka (Zdena Kavková) and Vincek (Vlasta Burian), two innocent country bumpkins who live in a Czech small...

A 1931 Czechoslovak black-and-white comedy film based on Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk.

The owner of the ready-to-wear store, Mr. Richard Naceradec from Zizkov, is an enthusiastic fan of S.K. Slavia and despite his wife's opposition, he...

The troubled situation of a provincial actor and his actress wife who come to the city. The actor is suspected of attacking another actor who admires...

A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.

A czech film that focuses on an unfaithful husband who married in to money, as well as an impoverished man who is turns to theft.

Vlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and...

Five crime stories connected by the narration of police superintendent Bartosek.

The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discovers...

Ríša, a student of law, neglects his studies in favour of parties and pranks. His angry father refuses to continue helping him out of...

A biographical story about significant Czech dramatist, writer and actor Josef Kajetán Tyl.

The story of high school students, talented Jan and Karel, who has a problem with math. Their life affects pedantic professor of mathematics Klec,...

One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats...

Venice Film Festival 1941

A painting of a girl from another time comes to life for it's buyer in this costume comedy.

An ambitious and selfish lawyer confesses to the murder of his first wife. Some of the scenes were filmed in the last weeks of the war.