Movies: Václav Kaňkovský

  • 1988
    Zuřivý reportér

    Zuřivý reportér (1988)

    Zuřivý reportér

    01988HD

    Josef Laufer portrays Egon Erwin Kisch in two daring journalistic adventures: in “Zuřivý reportér,” Kisch goes undercover in a poverty lodging house, uncovers a tattoo’s dark backstory and deciphers a secret telegram hinting at war via the legend of ...

    Zuřivý reportér
  • 1981
    Chain

    Chain (1981)

    Chain

    21981HD

    Carefree young nurse Marta learns upon her husband's death that he was involved in all manner of criminal activity, which puts her life in danger....

    Chain
  • 1983
    Zuzana Vojířová

    Zuzana Vojířová (1983)

    Zuzana Vojířová

    01983HD

    Miller’s daughter Zuzanka Vojířová, betrothed to Ondřej Zachar, hesitates before marriage when Lord Peter Vok of Rožmberk invites her to his castle. There she bears his son Petříček, but his wife hides the child. After Vok’s death in battle, Zuzanka ...

    Zuzana Vojířová
  • 1971
    Burglar and Umbrella

    Burglar and Umbrella (1971)

    Burglar and Umbrella

    3.11971HD

    In the morning twilight of Prague, the dead body of the safe-breaker Toufar is found floating on the river Vltava with a knife in his back. Police inspectors visit Toufar's lover, the prostitute Anna Kulatá (Jirina Bohdalová), nicknamed Umbrella, and...

    Burglar and Umbrella
  • 1962
    Deštivý den

    Deštivý den (1962)

    Deštivý den

    01962HD

    One busy day for a busy woman: worrying about children, the responsible work of a nurse in the centre and housework. In the evening, her husband is due back after a long time....

    Deštivý den
  • 1964
    Lucie

    Lucie (1964)

    Lucie

    01964HD

    The leader of the fast-track workers' party is appointed worker director of the unprofitable Lucie mine. The wrong decisions he makes to increase production at any cost and to fulfil an unrealistic plan lead to a catastrophe in which his son is accid...

    Lucie
  • 1983
    Potrhlá Andula

    Potrhlá Andula (1983)

    Potrhlá Andula

    01983HD

    Andula is the outspoken eldest daughter of a poor cottager. She has to take care of her siblings and the household and has a lot to do. She has no luck at home, so she decides to go out into the world. She and her little brother go to the forest to s...

    Potrhlá Andula
  • 1984
    Nejdelší návrat

    Nejdelší návrat (1984)

    Nejdelší návrat

    01984HD

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    Nejdelší návrat
  • 1982
    Jehla

    Jehla (1982)

    Jehla

    21982HD

    In a veterinary research institute, its workers are trying to deal with the sudden appearance of rabies. However, the work problem grows into a personal issue for each of them, especially for MVDr. Eva Krausová. Up until this point, Eva had lived the...

    Jehla
  • 1965
    The Borrowed Face

    The Borrowed Face (1965)

    The Borrowed Face

    5.51965HD

    It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former colleague Rosen, now working as an assistant at t...

    The Borrowed Face
  • 1982
    Zelená vlna

    Zelená vlna (1982)

    Zelená vlna

    4.21982HD

    A short film about Prague, Prague residents, and the beginning of the weekend....

    Zelená vlna
  • 1991
    Svědek umírajícího času

    Svědek umírajícího času (1991)

    Svědek umírajícího času

    4.61991HD

    At the beginning was the Slovak television series Lekár umierajúceho czasu (Doctor of Dying Time), dedicated to the Rudolphine-era scientist Jan Jesenius. He ended up on the scaffold along with other gentlemen after losing the anti-Habsburg uprising....

    Svědek umírajícího času
  • 1964
    Mary

    Mary (1964)

    Mary

    01964HD

    For a long time, Marie cannot admit to the break-up of her long marriage and believes that her husband will come back to her......

    Mary
  • 1987
    Můj hříšný muž

    Můj hříšný muž (1987)

    Můj hříšný muž

    3.51987HD

    A Czech film about love and marital crisis as a work injury....

    Můj hříšný muž
  • 1983
    Uličnictví pana Čabouna

    Uličnictví pana Čabouna (1983)

    Uličnictví pana Čabouna

    01983HD

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    Uličnictví pana Čabouna
  • 1979
    On the Poachers Trail

    On the Poachers Trail (1979)

    On the Poachers Trail

    6.81979HD

    Second part of the trilogy. Vasek is expected to go to Bulgaria for a holiday with his parents during the summer vacation, but the boy finds the prospect of spending the summer with his gamekeeper grandfather far more tempting than the seaside. On th...

    On the Poachers Trail
  • 1979
    The Secret of Steel City

    The Secret of Steel City (1979)

    The Secret of Steel City

    5.81979HD

    The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City....

    The Secret of Steel City
  • 1959
    Escape from the Shadows

    Escape from the Shadows (1959)

    Escape from the Shadows

    41959HD

    This exemplary "psychological drama" depicts the difficulties with which a new socialist mindset is born. Director Jiří Sequens warns against ill-advised marriages into the families of the defeated bourgeoisie, because the former royalty refuses to a...

    Escape from the Shadows
  • 1987
    Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker

    Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker (1987)

    Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker

    61987HD

    Fairy tale about young cobbler Jíra, who had fashioned wings from leather in order to rescue princess Jasnenka from the tower of the royal castle, where her father had closed her to to save her from the evil witch and her daughter Cernava....

    Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker
  • 1973
    Kronika žhavého léta

    Kronika žhavého léta (1973)

    Kronika žhavého léta

    31973HD

    A broadly drawn ideological epic set in the summer of 1947 in the borderlands of northern Bohemia: reactionary elements plot to undermine postwar social change while committed local communists struggle to organize workers and defend the emerging orde...

    Kronika žhavého léta