Jan Kačer Movies

The short story film based on the book of the same name by Karel Pecka depicts the atmosphere of the Lesser Town in the 1980s.

Sentiment is Tomáš Hejtmánek's intimate documentary portrait of the great Czech director František Vláčil....

Delinquent youths wander aimlessly and commit mischief. Few, however, manage to break free from the influence of such a gang. One of the lucky ones...

Thirty-year-old Prokop Randa returns to his native village, where he seeks peace and reconciliation with his life's failures. Jan Čep's novel,...

A synagogue service in Bohemia, where the Torah scrolls are ceremoniously taken out and read, intercut with images of a Jewish cemetery.

A few weeks in the life of the family of an attractive woman, the TV presenter Magda, her second husband and her teenage son. Magda is a lively,...

During World War II, a German university professor creates a spy ring that supplies the Allies with information about Nazi plans...

Biography of Karel Čapek.

A recording of a theatre production directed by Jan Kačer from 1967.

A leading director of the Czech film renaissance provides a philosophical meditation on life and death, set amidst complex hospital apparatus and the...