Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-50 of 363
- Two friends tell for a beautiful woman. The quarrel that ensues between them is resolved by her husband who tells them that they may each challenge him to a duel. The one who drinks poison poured into one of three glasses is the victor. Instead of poison, however, he places a laxative into the glass and the unlucky victim suffers for his sins.
- The name day of Mr. Fiala: The husband catches his wife with his friend. In the ensuing argument the husband is insulted and attacked. The lovers believe him to be dead and carry him from the house out into the street. Drunkards find him there and they think they have have killed him. They stand him against a wall with his face in the window of a miser who has just been counting his money. The miser punches the man in the head and takes the "corpse" to river and throws it in.
- Alfréd (Ferenc Futurista), betrothed to an eccentric and frivolous girl, dresses up as a tramp; he waits in Stromovka park for the right moment when Zuzana (Suzanne Marwille) is to pass by on her horse. He pretends that he feels ill and he asks for her help. The girl takes him back to her house on her horse. Then she discovers that it was a joke. Alfréd lectures her and now has proof that, once again, she has not behaved responsibly.
- A young clerk loses her account book. It is found by a young unemployed man with whom the clerk falls in love. The young man answers a classified advertisement and starts work at a doctor's surgery who has just completed his fourth vivisection. The young man is not aware that he is to become the next object of the experimentation. Having dressed up the last corpse in the clothes of the unemployed man, the doctor takes it to the railway track so that it can be run over by a train. Urged by the clerk, the police begin a search and the case is entrusted to the famous detective, Gordon, who is soon on the trail of the mad doctor. He manages to apprehend the doctor and then hands him over to the police. The young man is saved and finds love in the arms of the bank clerk.
- Richard Bor brings his neighbor, the landowner Drazicky, an old book. The latter tries in vain to persuade his wife Dagmar to leave. In the book Drazicky finds the story of the Mystery of the Black Tower and he falls asleep. He goes into the tower and finds an alchemist's laboratory and the body of a man holding instructions describing how he can be revived. Drazicky successfully carries out the experiment and finds out that the man is his ancestor Jesek Drazicky who lived during the time of Rudolf II. He had become the apprentice of the alchemist Borro who had entrusted him with the mystery of the elixir of life.
- On a hot summer's day the absent-minded professor Florián Pátek is hurrying to the swimming pool at Podolí. There he meets Miss Anastázie Rohlícková. First he pushes her on a swing, then they both disappear behind a bush and begin kissing. When Anastázie fails to arrive home, her parents go out looking for her. They find her clothes in a cubicle - and soon afterwards they find the clothes and umbrella of the professor. The couple is discovered behind the bushes, lying on the ground in an embrace, but not moving. An agent from the funeral parlor hurries to the scene. However, instead of a funeral, a wedding takes place. Both "corpses" turned out to be alive and the professor has to promise that he will take the girl as his wife.
- Twins Adam and Eva are so alike, it is impossible to tell them apart, which enables the malicious Eva to get away with all sorts of naughty tricks and leave the blame to fall on Adam. The pair grows up and Adam decides to pay Eva back for the tricks she played on him in the past. When he discovers that the handsome Dr Prokop Novotny is interested in Eva, he dresses up as Eva and startles the suitor.
- Dissolute Abel Beer, with the help of his debt collector friends - usurers, swindles a Prague Doctor Jakub Hlohovský out of a quiet house in Malá Strana. Jakub, familiar with the secrets and effects of various medicines, uses them to make himself look dead. He leaves his adopted daughter Roza with his neighbor Mrs. Grundová and goes abroad. There, he lives under the pseudonym of Dr. Sirius and soon achieves fame with his medical arts. He also saves the life of Jiljí Dubín who had been devastated by the death of his lover Cesarina. Dubín is revived when he meets Hlohovský's daughter Roza who has matured into a beautiful young woman. However, Abel Beer is also in love with Roza, and has fallen further into trouble in the hands of the debt collectors. He sees a way out with a double murder. He first kills one of his relatives and then one of the most notorious usurers. However, it is the appearance of the allegedly dead Jakub Hlohoský in the house which causes him to go mad and take a knife to his own throat. Hlohovský gives his daughter Roza away to Dubín and is able to give them the quiet Malá Strana house as a wedding gift. (According to an article appearing in the press at the time the film was made.)
- Young Matula has succumbed to gambling and he steals money from his parents to finance his passion. His father catches him red-handed and throws him out of the house. Matula roams the world and meets Vávra, also a tramp, who accepts a job as a road-sweeper but he soon dies in a car accident. On his lone wanderings Matula finds a miraculous little key which opens all locks. With its help he acquires a great fortune. He breaks into a bank and steals more money. He then meets the daughter of the cashier who was wrongly accused under suspicion of theft and when he sees her despair, he realizes his wrong-doings. Finally he wakes up - it had all been a dream. (According to the censor's certificate).
- Peter the tramp (Karel Lamac) wants to end his life but he isn't successful in doing so. After his third attempt at suicide he jumps under a car but the owner and driver, Jirí Landa (Karel Lamac again), brakes in time. He notices their similar builds and gives Peter a winter coat. In the pocket is a forgotten invitation to a ball where Jirí is to meet his future bride, Anicka Karesová (Anny Ondra), for the first time. Peter goes to the ball instead of Jirí and immediately wins the favour of Anicka and her father (Theodor Pistek).
- Helena and Tonicka have come to Prague to find happiness. Helena acquires the position of secretary for the banker Petr Ledenka, Tonicka works as a cleaning lady. Petr falls in love with Helena and Tonicka befriends a corporal. Helena is expecting a baby but the War begins and Petr has to join up. He entrusts his company with his friend Vilém Resler and he leaves for the front. Helena keeps her motherhood a secret so that she doesn't lose her job.
- Country girl Helena falls in love with an artist painting the local village scenery and one evening she lets herself be seduced by him. The artists leaves but soon invites Helena to Prague where they make love again. Helena then returns home to her sick father and refuses the constant attentions of the gamekeeper Rýza. After some time she realizes that she is pregnant. Since she knows that the artist will not marry her, she goes to visit her aunt who takes her to an abortionist. When the girl returns home after the abortion she discovers her father has died. The opportunist aunt sees her chance and moves in with Helena and persuades her to marry Rýza.
- Alfred Redl (Emil Artur Longen), a colonel on the Austrian General Staff, leads an extravagant private life. No one suspects that in reality he is passing information to Russian spies. To obtain further information the Russians station agent Levanzová (Marie Grossová) to him, but Redl resists the temptations of the beautiful woman. Levanzová discovers Redl's passionate letters intended for Lieutenant Dolan (Jirí Sedlácek) . Redl is transferred to Prague and he tries to prevent the lieutenant from marrying. The Russians threaten Redl with making public his letters to Dolan and they force him to give away the plans for an attack in Galicia.
- Helena Leeová is at a spa with her daughter Marcelka. One day a lifeguard saves her from drowning. The rescued woman comes to in the lifeguard's arms. This incident is used by the newspapers to promote a society scandal. They print a report that the lifeguard was seen with Helena in her bedroom. Helena's husband, the banker Filip Lee, is a candidate for bank president. The scandal threatens his career and thus Lee at once demands a divorce. His legal representative, Jan Farrland, not only wins the divorce suit but also manages to have Helena's daughter taken from her custody. One day Farrland meets Helena at a society party and he comes to understand that he has wronged her, and he falls in love with her.
- Mimi lives with her parents and the maid Fanka in a villa near the forest. One day, a gamekeeper comes to court Mimi when her parents are away. A plane has to make an emergency landing in the clearing and out steps a young man who is immediately taken with Mimi; she, too, is charmed by him. This provokes the gamekeeper who shoots the Robber, as he calls the pilot. The young man is wounded, but this only strengthens Mimi's love.
- True, Anton Spelec (Vlasta Burian) is by trade a producer of musical instruments, but in his heart and soul he is a sharp-shooter. In a little provincial town arrangements are being made for a large parade during which the worthy sharp-shooters will be decorated with medals. Anton believes that this time the council will come to him but he is disappointed, for they are one medal short and he must wait for another year. Then in the pub he drinks so much that he insults the emperor for which he is sentenced to jail. It is necessary, however, to fulfill the order, so Anton decides to send his employee Josef Kukacka (Jindrich Plachta) in his stead while he works secretly at home alone. But even Kukacka doesn't want to go to jail and he sends there in his place a vagabond who would like to wait out the winter in a jail cell. As luck would have it, the vagabond dies while serving the sentence. So it comes about that Anton is officially dead and in the town a solemn funeral is planned.
- Young music composer Viktor Honzl in vain looks for work. He is prevented from committing suicide by a technician of the gasworks who shortly beforehand has disconnected his gas due to past due bills. In the disguise of an older, serious, musical scholar Viktor obtains work in a music publishing house. So he may court Eva, publisher Durdys's daughter, who he likes quite a bit, he recommends to the owner that he also employ his nephew. Understandably, this is he himself, in his every-day form. For Viktor, however, this becomes an extremely complicated situation as he switches in the place of business from the clothes of the uncle and then back again from the clothes of Viktor the nephew.
- The famous singer Manon Cavalliniová comes to Prague after fifteen years. Many years ago she was forced by her husband, the industrialist Rón, to choose between a career and life with him and their young daughter Vera. Now Manon invites her husband to the premiere.
- Anita Karenová (Truda Grosslichtová) becomes the owner of the clothing company Karen that her father has bequeathed her on her 21st birthday. However, she has no experience in running a business and she would like to acquire some on-the-job training beforehand. Thus she avails herself of the report of Pavla Holoubková (Vera Ferbasová), who has applied for a position at the company, and she writes the recommendation herself. Under a new name she is taken on as a copy clerk in the branch under Jirí Hosek's management. Hosek (Vladimír Borský) falls in love with Anita without knowing who she really is.
- The soldiers of a cavalry regiment spend their free time as they please, not leaving out various practical jokes and above all singing songs. Also participating in all of this is Corporal Václav Toman. The soldiers stop on the way to training maneuvers in one village and the mayor invites them to a dance. Toman meets here his long ago friend Bozenka, who has taken a fancy to the mayor's son Jan. She would like, however, that her chosen one enter military service where they would make a real man out of him. Václav supports her efforts, and so Jan follows after the soldiers.
- The film depicts a love story between a man and a woman which unfolds in simple sequences. The man seduces the woman and she follows him, entranced. Both draw out an ace of hearts from a hand of cards. The man holds a statue of a naked woman. A train enters a tunnel and moves back out again, the engine wheels crush a garland of flowers. The man leaves, tears roll down the woman's face. The woman, left alone, places a drum over her shoulders and walks to the river and stares into the swirls of water. The woman's hand covered with weeds and mud symbolizes the tragic end of the seduced woman.
- Wealthy and ill Petr Kornel (Karel Hasler) is not pleased with the carousing lifestyle of his nephew. He stops supporting him financially and demands that he change his name. Out of gratitude Kornel bequeaths a substantial sum of money to his nurse Alice (Adina Mandlová) with the condition that she marries. Petr Suk (Hugo Haas), as the nephew is now named, visits the doctor. In the waiting room his X-ray is mistakenly switched with one of another patient's. On the basis of this he presently learns that he is seriously ill and has only one day of life left to him.
- On the coast of Yugoslavia lives fisherman Ivo Kralj, his wife Marie, son Vuk, and Ivo's mother in one happy home. Marie, who loves her husband and always looks forward to his return from sea, attracts Nikola, with whom Ivo, out of jealousy, has a scuffle at a dance. After the outbreak of World War I Ivo is mobilized. He ends up in a P.O.W. camp where he is subjected to hard labour. His family then receives news of his death. The years pass and the lonely widow Marie is occasionally visited by her friend Nikola. Ivo's mother would like her to remarry. Soon after the wedding Marie becomes pregnant. Ivo, who has been thought dead, succeeds in escaping the P.O.W. camp where he has spent several years. Upon his arrival home he finds his name on a memorial erected to the victims of the war...
- Václav Dvorák, the owner of a printing house, has two daughters - Venda and Sasa. The father is proud of the charming Venda and jealous of her suitors. Lawyer Hodan, a widower and father of an adult son, courts Venda with particular persistence. Venda convinces him to marry her inconspicuous sister Sasa, who loves him. For Venda herself has fallen in love with Materna, the manly typesetter from her father's printing house. She does not know that he is a course and selfish man who woos her out of self-interest.
- The prevailing pitiful economic situation affects the lives of many people. Professor Václav Junek (Frantisek Smolík) gradually realizes that his idealistic notions differ considerably from the real life of his four children. The despairing father is finally persuaded of the aptness of an allegory he reads in one of his students' essays where the situation of young people is compared to that of shipwreck survivors; they are driven onto an iceberg by the wind and waves and now face an uncertain and dark sea.
- Wealthy bachelor Pavel Haken (Hugo Haas) attempts with the assistance of his trustworthy valet to escape the wooings of single women itching to get married. These women have meetings at a lady's social club. They propose to Andula (Vera Ferbasová), daughter of a poor taxi driver, a lucrative bet that even she will not win him.
- A fortune-teller forecasts for Dr. Prelouc that he will marry the third poverty-stricken little girl he meets. Míla, the daughter of factory owner Janota, likes the doctor and with the aid of his housekeeper Amálka she insinuates herself into his household in the disguise of a poor seller of shoe-laces. She has prepared for her role beforehand by surveying the outskirts of the city where she met Vendelín Pleticha, who became her guide to the local pubs and teacher of the people's speech. Dr. Prelouc is inspired by the poor, uneducated girl and tries to teach her the rudiments of societal behavior, even literary language. Everything goes along until the moment he finds out that Míla is tricking him and that Pleticha is not the father she has passed him off to be.
- Vojnar, a clerk in the insurance bureau, lives modestly with his wife Jindra until the moment he meets his schoolmate Hodas, the general director of an iron-works. Hodas introduces him to Sona, who wants to become a film star and hopes that Hodas will finance her film. Vojnar falls in love with Sona, and when he inherits some money from his aunt he divorces his wife and marries her. He lavishes her with riches and also gives her money for the librettist Kaspar who promises Sona to write a screenplay.
- Vera Donátová (Truda Grosslichtová) has finished her law studies and wants to found her own law firm. She is financially dependent, however, on her family. Her emancipated mother supports her endeavors but her father provides her the money with the condition that if her practice does not succeed within a year she will marry Consul Raboch's son. Vera has no clients. Her first case is assigned to her ex officio. Vera visits her client, Petr Kucera (Oldrich Nový), known as Tiger, in his prison cell, and against his will she obtains his release.
- Rina Weberová (Hana Vítová), the daughter of a retired colonel, is the proprietress of a poorly prospering photo-studio. Her elderly friend, banker Václav Novák (Jaroslav Marvan), is secretly giving her financial support because he is in love with her. One day Rina meets a childhood friend, Vincenc Spacek (Ladislav Pesek), who has started his military service in Prague. The enterprising Vincenc with his inseparable fellow-soldier Vendelín Krídlo (Jindrich Plachta) give Rina's studio a great deal of advertising in their garrison, so that the soldiers flock to Rina to be photographed by her.
- Alois Novák (Oldrich Nový), a minor clerk in a travel agency and the husband of a dowdy housewife Marenka (Natasa Gollová), lives a run-of-the-mill, dull life. In his soul, however, there resides an inextinguishable desire for adventure. And so once a month he poses as a playboy. As the mysterious and wealthy Mr. Kristian he goes to the exclusive Orient Bar where he does not skimp on generous tips and where he platonic-ally seduces beautiful and elegant women. In the salon he speaks of love and the magnificence of exotic lands, which he has supposedly come to know on his wanderings abroad. In reality he has read all of this in the travel agency's brochures.
- Tána Cepeláková lives happily six years in a girls boarding school among cheerful friends. The young friend of her father's, Rudolf Kolínský, wants to marry her but Tána stubbornly rejects him. She does not want to return home because she is convinced that her father's second wife is a pernicious step-mother. Curiosity, however, gets the better of her and Tána decides to enter her parent's service under an assumed name. She takes up employment as the attendant to her step-mother.
- Milada Dvoráková has in front of her a wedding with her business partner Dub, owner of petrol stations. When she catches him in the arms of his secretary she breaks with him. She founds a competing firm ZUB (Zeny u benzinu - Women at the Petrol Station) that employs predominantly single women. Dub also takes up the battle of competition. His situation is precarious because drivers are giving their preference to the petrol station staffed with girls. Dub still loves Milada, he desires a reconciliation, but in vain. In the meantime, the girls experience love affairs; they want to preserve their right to fall in love and they conspire against Milada.
- While seated one evening in a wine-bar, a successful writer Jan Herold (Oldrich Nový) makes the acquaintance of a young, beginning painter, Jarmila Bendová (Lída Baarová). Jarmila has a financial and artistic crisis because she has lost the model for her last painting, without which she is unable to bring off her exhibition, and without selling her paintings at the exhibition she will not be able to pay her debt to her landlord. Herold comes to know of her problems and because he has fallen in love with the girl he tries to give her all possible help. Disguised as an old man he models for her so she will be able to finish her painting, as a exotic fortune-teller he frightens the landlord so he will not clamor for the rent from her, and he arranges an exhibition for her at his new publisher's in a prestigious gallery.
- Adam Kavalír (Frantisek Kristof-Veselý) returns from abroad to take over the family factory from his father. But as a consequence of his father's bohemian lifestyle the business is so far in debt that the Kavalírs even lose their villa and must find a place to sublet. Mrs. Trojanová (Ruzena Slemrová) is no longer up to managing her pension, the co-owner of which is none other than her peevish daughter Eva (Hana Vítová), and she is looking for a capable manager. Adam applies for the position and is accepted.
- Many local dignitaries are gathered at an auction organized by the notary Dr Jan Karas (Oldrich Nový) at Lucín castle to sell off the belongings of the late count. Most interest is aroused by a portrait of a beautiful noble girl, but no-one buys it because it is said to be cursed. Until the young count arrives to decide what to do with the portrait, Karas keeps it at home. Fascinated by the beauty of the girl, Karas spends hours in front of the portrait. Then one day he kisses it and the girl (Lída Baarová) comes to life and steps out of the picture. The girl introduces herself as countess Blanka of Blankenberg, and has no intention of getting back into the canvas.
- Artur Drmola (Jirí Dohnal) is the spoiled son of a rich family who proclaims to one and all that every young woman retains his interest for three months at the longest, and if he were to have a wife it would be no different. One morning the young man, still drunk, meets his old childhood friend Leontýna Sobotová (Lída Baarová). The young woman reproaches him for his way of life, but Artur does not recall from where she could know him. Leontýna is also from a wealthy family, yet she works in her father's company. Artur's affection for her completely transforms him and he also begins to work in his father's office. His worried mother (Zdenka Baldová) thinks that something is missing in Artur's life, and she intends to have him married.
- Zuzanka (Natasa Gollová) can finally stop toiling away at washing dishes at hotel Mercur after a distant aunt has bequeathed her her own hotel - Blue Star. She proudly marches over to the luxury hotel in the center of town and immediately begins to change the personnel. Because this involves the facilities belonging to a joint-stock company, which no one can inherit, she is considered insane. It comes out that her inheritance is in reality a small, shabby little hotel of the same name in the IV town district. The personnel are three unemployed youths who in this way work off the money they owe for rent. The first guest is wealthy Vladimír Rychta Rohan (Oldrich Nový), whose parents spent their honeymoon in this very hotel. He wants to celebrate his wedding there, with which his fiancée Milada (Adina Mandlová), who is waiting for him at the luxurious Blue Star, does not concur.
- Examining magistrate Kilián (Otomar Korbelár) is suspended because he allegedly enabled his friend Rynes (Miroslav Homola) to commit suicide in prison. The unfortunate Kilián under the name Kypr finds a position for himself as a copy clerk in a legal office. He cares for Rynes's daughter Anna Marie (Lenka Podhájská) in exemplary fashion and soon gains the favour of the indigent to whom he provides legal advice in the beerhall The Lout.
- The wife of cottager Marek has an illegitimate son, Jaroslav, with landowner Navrátil, who has no interest in the boy. Marek reproaches his wife for her misbehavior even after many years, avoids working, and drinks away their money. Jaroslav is a good boy and his mother is a great support. He likes Liduska, who lives alone with her father, the ferryman Král. Her mother has long ago abandoned them. Marek makes friends with the vagabond Doubek, who usually comes to the village each summer for seasonal farm work. Doubek takes a fancy to Liduska, and the romantic adolescent girl is not indifferent to him. Jaroslav is jealous of Doubek and on account of him he quarrels with Liduska.
- Inspector Cadek from the 13th police station should keep an eye on the released safe-cracker nicknamed The Cat. He rightly suspects that Cat will go and pick up his last loot which the police didn't manage to find and that he will want revenge on Karta who helped get him behind bars. At the hospital, Cat's ex-lover Fróny hopelessly falls for doctor Chrudimský and decides to start a new life. She still refuses to help the inspector in his search for The Cat and Karta.
- Master armourer Tomás (Vladimír Repa) has young wife Alena (Miluse Zoubková), of whom he is very jealous. One day the ruler of town sees Alena and decides to win her over for himself. To get a free hand for his love affairs, he sends Master Tomás to acquire more skills in Flanders. Jealous husband does not know how to secure fidelity of his beautiful wife while he is away, and finally accepts aid of the devil (Vítezslav Vejrazka), to whom he signs his soul as a reward. Devil in the disguise of Master Ondrej works in Tomás's workshop and protects Alena against various courtiers and the ruler of town. But finally he falls in love with Alena himself and becomes her lover.
- The post office in Liderice is attacked by robbers who kill the clerk Klecka, wound Munk and force Jirí Valta to hand over the cash. Munk, with his light injuries, is hailed as a hero whereas Valta is generally considered a coward. At the insistence of her parents, Valta's fiancee Helena leaves him. Valta moves away, and looks after Klecka's wife and small daughter, however, he is still plagued by the question as to whether he acted correctly.
- Gloomy gallery tenement house in the suburbs is crowded with people, discontent with their fate. Symbol of better life is for them a worn-out bag of old lady Sachová, and they think their uncommunicative neighbour has locked loads of money inside it. The idea that they might pay off their debts even drives an indebted traveller, poor watchmaker and an office servant to a murder attempt.
- One day Chazaj pays a visit to the poor artist Simon and asks him to paint his portrait. Simon agrees but in the end he commits suicide. After Chazaj's death, the picture changes hands and brings misfortune to all who own it.
- The engine-driver Matys rescues his locomotive, which he affectionately calls Lisa, from the Second World War dive-bombers. He himself, however, is wounded during the attacks. Recovering at home, he looks forward to the end of the war so as to be able to ride his repaired locomotive again. The war finally comes to an end. Matys's son-in-law Vojta is an engine-driver, too. On the day his son is born, Vojta gets drunk and forgets about his duty. He is called for, but cannot be found. The colleagues persuade old Matys to secretly substitute for Vojta.
- The catastrophically dry weather of 1947 causes immense problems in the countryside. In the small village Klícov, only farmers Hánek and Bervida and the old Hromádka have water. The others must queue every day for a drop for themselves and their cattle. All the villagers lament over their previous decision to turn down the cooperative chairman Kouba's proposal to built a new village water-supply system.
- Two years after the end of the Second World War, the remnants of Ukrainian Insurgence Army, called the Bandera's after their former commander Stepan Bandera, are trying to get from Poland through Slovakia to Germany in the West. They resort to sabotages also on Czechoslovak territory, and therefore army and police units are deployed to capture them. Soldiers and policemen are warned about the danger of encountering spies and collaborators of the Bandera's. In the meantime police investigators are arresting catholic clergy for supplying the saboteurs with weapons and false documents. Soldiers are operating in the area of Small Fatra, and it seems there must be someone amongst them who provides the Bandera's with information about planned movements of the army.
- After the end of the Second World War an American soldier Tipkins (Karel Effa) steals in Vienna museum a rare watch, which once belonged to the Emperor Rudolph II. Archivist Kraus (Milos Kopecký) informs the director about it, he even knows which soldier it was. The director therefore contacts Lieutenant Hopkins (Eduard Dubský). He promises to help and on his orders Tipkins reluctantly gives the antiquity to the lieutenant. After some time the director asks for the result an American colonel (Milos Nedbal). He learns that the lieutenant meanwhile swapped the watch for butter and bought for it a wagon of salt, which he intends to deliver to Berlin.
- Year 1919. Young country girl Anna (Marie Tomásová) arrives in Prague to serve in a rich family of builder Rubes. She encounters Toník (Josef Bek), a foundry worker in the Kolben-Danek Machinery Works and active member of the social democratic party. He, his friends and her mate Mána (Jana Dítetová) teach Anna how to deal with her employer and about the class struggle.