Movies: Vladimír Ptáček

  • 1976
    Boys Will Be Boys

    Boys Will Be Boys (1976)

    Boys Will Be Boys

    71976HD

    Three friends - Tomás, Hubert and Jozka - are boys growing up in a little town. Tomás lives with his aunt Apolena and uncle Václav. Tomás is a boy with lots of ideas that often end up getting him into trouble not only with his teachers and aunt, but ...

    Boys Will Be Boys
  • 1972
    The Girl on the Broomstick

    The Girl on the Broomstick (1972)

    The Girl on the Broomstick

    6.71972HD

    A teenage witch, Saxana (Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, finds herself in a modern world....

    The Girl on the Broomstick
  • 1975
    Dva muži hlásí příchod

    Dva muži hlásí příchod (1975)

    Dva muži hlásí příchod

    81975HD

    An only son, Jirí Valenta (Jaromír Hanzlík), has been drafted to the army. At the barracks he acquires the nickname Seamstress because he sews rugs in his spare time. One day, his friend introduces him to Julka Vávrová (Jorga Kotrbová), a girl he is ...

    Dva muži hlásí příchod
  • 1976
    Odysseus and the Stars

    Odysseus and the Stars (1976)

    Odysseus and the Stars

    61976HD

    A group of children are investigating a chain of mysterious events during the seventies....

    Odysseus and the Stars
  • 1990
    Larks on a String

    Larks on a String (1990)

    Larks on a String

    6.91990HD

    In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict....

    Larks on a String
  • 1966
    Carriage to Vienna

    Carriage to Vienna (1966)

    Carriage to Vienna

    7.21966HD

    A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate....

    Carriage to Vienna
  • 1975
    How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer

    How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer (1975)

    How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer

    6.61975HD

    There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the ...

    How to Drown Dr. Mracek, the Lawyer
  • 1969
    All My Good Countrymen

    All My Good Countrymen (1969)

    All My Good Countrymen

    7.81969HD

    The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958....

    All My Good Countrymen
  • 1977
    Pasiáns

    Pasiáns (1977)

    Pasiáns

    41977HD

    Student Eva is dashing up a steep slope to try to catch a bus, but she twists her ankle and the bus doesn't wait. There won't be another bus until the next day, and so Eva returns to her parents' cottage where she has been studying by herself for sev...

    Pasiáns
  • 1977
    The Liberation of Prague

    The Liberation of Prague (1977)

    The Liberation of Prague

    21977HD

    On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) d...

    The Liberation of Prague
  • 1973
    Days of Betrayal

    Days of Betrayal (1973)

    Days of Betrayal

    51973HD

    This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from ...

    Days of Betrayal
  • 1982
    Konečná stanice

    Konečná stanice (1982)

    Konečná stanice

    81982HD

    The story takes place in a retirement home and creates a mosaic of the lives of old people who are trying to find a relationship with themselves and with life in these specific conditions. Each of its residents has a distinctive approach to life and ...

    Konečná stanice
  • 1974
    Gunshots in Mariánské Lázně

    Gunshots in Mariánské Lázně (1974)

    Gunshots in Mariánské Lázně

    61974HD

    In May 1945, a woman in Marienbad reports a murder - committed in 1933 against the German emigrant Professor Lessing. She also names the murderer. Against the wishes of his superior, who does not feel responsible for this case - it was a fascist femi...

    Gunshots in Mariánské Lázně
  • 1978
    Hněv

    Hněv (1978)

    Hněv

    21978HD

    Sunday in September 1977, a celebration of the Miners Day. The old Hepnar is sitting at the cemetery and is recalling events from ten years ago. That time the representative of the ministry Barvír announced at the miners meeting that mining in the mi...

    Hněv
  • 1990
    The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night

    The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night (1990)

    The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night

    4.31990HD

    An allegory set in an archetypal Czech village, it tells of what happens when a sequence of mysterious events take place, including the disappearance of the stationmaster. While everything has a rational explanation, collective paranoia takes hold an...

    The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night
  • 1970
    Lišáci – Myšáci a Šibeničák

    Lišáci – Myšáci a Šibeničák (1970)

    Lišáci – Myšáci a Šibeničák

    51970HD

    Sliding, skiing, snow forts, snowball fights, in short, winter is the right season for the children from the village under the Šibeničák hill to have fun. Their leader has always been Zrzek, the son of the local undertaker. But then Myšák, whose fath...

    Lišáci – Myšáci a Šibeničák
  • 1979
    Diagnóza smrti

    Diagnóza smrti (1979)

    Diagnóza smrti

    5.31979HD

    Two seriously injured patients are brought to the hospital at almost the same time: truck driver Honza Linhart, who had an accident, and a young woman found unconscious in a forest by a man picking mushrooms. The woman is identified as Katerina Marko...

    Diagnóza smrti
  • 1975
    Zbraně pro Prahu

    Zbraně pro Prahu (1975)

    Zbraně pro Prahu

    41975HD

    In May 1945, Czech revolutionaries used several armoured trains in the fighting - partly captured, partly assembled from whatever the railway brought. One of them was commanded by the shunter Jan Chýň, who managed to bring weapons from the ammunition...

    Zbraně pro Prahu
  • 1978
    Quiet American in Prague

    Quiet American in Prague (1978)

    Quiet American in Prague

    61978HD

    In the era of normalization, even seemingly buried agent stories came back. This one takes place in the immediate post-war years and tells the story of the discovery of a spy network that an American diplomat was spinning on Czech territory. He was u...

    Quiet American in Prague
  • 1967
    Windstorm

    Windstorm (1967)

    Windstorm

    01967HD

    A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that she’s having an affair with his boss, he devises one elaborate plot after another to murder the rival, each...

    Windstorm