The short stories about marriage that Vít Olmer wrote for Playboy magazine when Arnošt Lustig was its editor-in-chief are witty, often with absurd punchlines, and clearly show that the author is a keen observer of life around us. He selected five of them for his new Czech comedy, whose common...
A classic Czech comedy about the privatization of a small South Bohemian brewery. In a series of comical situations, good Czech police officers encounter the mafia, and honest citizens encounter swindlers. This amusing story, which of course includes a romantic subplot, is significantly influenced...
The popular Moravanka brass band performs at the fair. Vasek Pivoňka, the bandleader of the local brass band Kulatěnky, which broke up, decides to put the band back together. The village musicians are sceptical at first, but later they start rehearsing with vigour. Standa, a Prague resident who...
Inspired by the activities of counter-intelligence officers, Jan Prokop plays chess at every opportunity. In addition, he works with his team to uncover a resident network that attempts to recruit domestic experts to work abroad.
Who is this confident man who, with unusual elegance and surprising professionalism, began working at the reception desks of the highest government and party leaders one day? Where did he come from, what are his tasks, and who entrusted him with them? These questions will be pondered in the film by...
Postavička prostého lidového chytráka, který se zaplétá v šachové partii mocných, poskytuje vynikajícímu Josefu Dvořákovi prostor pro řadu brilantních klaunských čísel.
The story, set in the 1930s, takes place in the peaceful summer atmosphere of a small town, where the famous barrel organ player Ferdinand Houra arrives with his song, which is particularly popular with the local women and girls. It tells the story of the turbulent love affair between a young...
Marjánka is a first-class chateau cook, but she has a nice manner and also a quarrelsome nature. The patient gardener secretly loves her, and so he lets her get away with a lot. Marjane, however, does not want the gardener; she thinks straight of the Marquis, who is to visit the castle. So when...
Just in time, Róza Riedlová returns from the grave to beneficially intervene in the life of timid Jana, who is full of doubts about everything and especially about herself. If Róza, that charming older lady, is a ghost at all, then she is definitely one of the kindest ones in our world....
