Ladislav Potměšil Movies

In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic...

The two heroes of the film's story - the decent but dry engineer Zárub and the marriage swindler Majer - are granted this wish by the...

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...

Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family...

The film is a concert of well-known actors from an alcohol rehab where a middle-aged man has taken refuge to get rid of his addiction. In the rehab,...

A pair of criminals, an escaped prisoner and a young thief, are about to make a joint, obviously illegal, escape across the border. They escape for a...

Pavlata, the director of an educational institution for juvenile offenders, will push for the early release of Pepík Adamec, whom he respects...

The biggest threat to a successful crackdown on drug traffickers and consumers is the international hitman Barták, sent to the Czech Republic...

A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on...

Jirka Horáček, a teenager living with his father on a Pilsen housing estate, spends his free time at discos with friends. One night he...

An anthology in three jazz-infused tales: an idealistic student’s romance with a pragmatic trumpeter; a vibraphonist’s urgent journey...

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

An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into...

Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state.

The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.

The fate of father and son Horáček, but this time they switched roles. Jirka has married, settled down and grown up, while his father is...

Several of the works of writer Bohumil Říha have been filmed. This novel by the pro-regime writer also inspired a children’s film,...