Petr Svojtka Movies

Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides in her closest friend the owl. When she comes...

A wonderful fairytale about looking for love, defeating evil and learning some valuable moral lessons on the way. The story begins with the young...

The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful...

The film from 1976, a film that is exemplary in its devotion to the canons of normalised cinema, is the work of director Stanislav Strnad. He brought...

The film was based on the novel "Milión" by Karel Štorkán. The book and the film depict the events surrounding the great...

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

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...

Autumn 1944. A doctor is accused in the collaboration with the Nazis and found guilty...

The economic crisis in the early 1930s also affected the inhabitants of the distinctive Moravian-Slovak countryside. The protagonist and his family...

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided to hold a traditional ball despite the ban....

This wacky musical comedy builds on absurd ideas, parodic humour and many variously subverted references to famous...

Two young returnees from the First World War face a difficult future because they cannot find work. One eventually finds a job as an electrician, the...

This documentary-style story tells the story of an aspiring documentary filmmaker who is preparing a film about the history of glassmaking. He is...

The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not hide his admiration for this literary giant, and...