Movies: Jan Kohout

The main character of the funny story is an ordinary typist Julinka Svobodová, who works for the established business firm Hrubý a syn and lives in a sublet with the seamstress Mrs. Pokorná. Although she is poor and sometimes manages to be late, she ...

During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the saved man was also the Taman king; and he has decided to name Lojza, a communist, his royal heir....

The course of an organized strike by workers from North Moravian steelworks in 1931 to resist mass layoffs during the economic crisis....

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A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody....

Young engineer Petr Pavelec works on a dam plan on the Loučnica River. He meets Irena, the daughter of an unscrupulous construction entrepreneur Berka, and falls in love with her. When Petr's project wins the tender, Berka and Irena take him on as a ...

Post-war cinematic reckoning with People’s Fascism and its representatives....

A hardworking employee at a printing plant takes on all sorts of roles until he nearly collapses under their weight. He learns that those who try to do everything end up doing nothing....

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A young doctor and a group of injured are hiding in an underground shelter and are liberated by Soviet soldiers....

The story of a group of little boys from a border town in Western Bohemia who help catch marauders....

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Professor Karas is widely known as enthusiastic propagator of the motto "Morality Above All Else". He guides his students as well as his own family to live a morally decent life. One day he has an unexpected visit. It's his illegitimate daughter Vera...

Czech nobleman Petr Vok of Rozmberk (Milos Kopecký) is no longer so young, but his amatory adventures continue to arouse the envy of men and the indignation of respectable ladies. In his "female retinue" at the chateau in Bechyne he has twelve comely...

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A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public and private life....