Oldřich Velen Movies

Princess Julia doesn't want to marry an old prince Hubert so she runs away from home. She meets two old magicians and join the circus, where she...

In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes...

Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central...

The short story explores the often tragic impact of prejudice or suspicion that relies on the appearance of the human face. Guests in a remote pub...

A film about a young sanitation worker who tries to prevent the pollution of a river, but pays the price...

It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Futurum exhibition. Young inventor Petr comes...

It is the summer of 1968 and also in South Moravian Pálavice appear political clashes. The so far peacefully farming Unified farmers'...

During the First World War, the crooks Scholef and Krumka sell weapons on the black market. After the collapse of the monarchy they try their hand at...

Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by...

A Czech TV film adaptation of Budd Schulberg's novel The Harder They Fall, which had previously been made as the 1956 US movie of the same name...

A poetic story about a man who returns to his mother's home village at Christmas. Stirred by his memories and his reunion with his mother, he tries...

A political drama dealing with the issues of contemporary construction and highlighting the various relationships within the party apparatus.

Student Slávka Čermáková has to take her final exams on a make-up date. Her naively admiring relationship with a reckless...

The story of a young man who found the meaning of love and a place in life at the cost of a loss.

Despite the initial mistrust of others, former glass worker Štěoán Urban becomes the founder and first chairman of the local...

Princess Terezka was a girl like a pod until the moment when Mrs. Madam took over her upbringing. The princess even cries from her etiquette. Famous...

The theatre director encounters the disinterest and irresponsibility of the acting troupe, whose members are scheming and looking for side income....

The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I.

A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.