Movies: Studio Umeleckeho Filmu Praha

  • 1956
    Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph

    Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph (1956)

    Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph

    5.41956HD

    Jaroslav Hašek screens four film stories in the fairground shed around 1900. After period advertising slides and a "newspaper", we see "the first part of a sensational, exemplary, parfuss, salon program - a film from the life of school-age children, ...

    Jaroslav Hasek's Exemplary Cinematograph
  • 1956
    Jan Žižka

    Jan Žižka (1956)

    Jan Žižka

    6.61956HD

    The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420....

    Jan Žižka
  • 1956
    The Windy Mountain

    The Windy Mountain (1956)

    The Windy Mountain

    51956HD

    A group of temporary workers arrive at the Czech-German border to conduct geological exploration. However, not all people have pure intentions and a past, and so the group of geologists is threatened by saboteurs who want to blow up an abandoned mine...

    The Windy Mountain
  • 1953
    Kidnapped

    Kidnapped (1953)

    Kidnapped

    6.51953HD

    American agents hijack a plane on the Ostrava-Prague route to launch a campaign against the People's Democratic Czechoslovakia. The plane lands in West Germany, but the Americans have an unexpected problem convincing the hijackers to stay in the West...

    Kidnapped
  • 1955
    Jan Hus

    Jan Hus (1955)

    Jan Hus

    6.21955HD

    The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The film captures the period from May 1412 to the summer of 1415, a turbulent time in the Czech Kingdom, during which ther...

    Jan Hus
  • 1953
    Holiday with Angel

    Holiday with Angel (1953)

    Holiday with Angel

    7.61953HD

    Strict and always dissatisfied grumbler Mr. Angel gets a voucher for summer recreation. He rejects it at first but he eventually decides to use it and spend 14 days in unionist hut Jezerka together with other merited co-workers....

    Holiday with Angel
  • 1955
    Angel in the Mountains

    Angel in the Mountains (1955)

    Angel in the Mountains

    7.21955HD

    Mr. Angel goes winter sporting and at the same time investigates his son's fiancee....

    Angel in the Mountains
  • 1954
    Shoesmachine

    Shoesmachine (1954)

    Shoesmachine

    01954HD

    The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy....

    Shoesmachine
  • 1955
    Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...

    Once Upon a Time, There Was a King... (1955)

    Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...

    81955HD

    A selfish self-centered widowed ruler, barely tolerated by his subjects and called appropriately enough, 'King Myself, First' asks his three daughters to name the measure of their love for him. When one of them says, "more than salt", he banishes her...

    Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
  • 1956
    Po noci den

    Po noci den (1956)

    Po noci den

    51956HD

    A Czech art film set in a modern village. The main character of the film is Karla Tolarová, a worker from a Prague printing house, who arrives for a harvest shift at a unified agricultural cooperative in Běšíčice at a critical time for the cooperativ...

    Po noci den
  • 1952
    Zítra se bude tančit všude

    Zítra se bude tančit všude (1952)

    Zítra se bude tančit všude

    4.91952HD

    A group of union members, impressed by the First World Festival of Democratic Youth, held in Prague in 1947, decide to found a dance troupe. However, they are looking for someone who can teach them everything they need......

    Zítra se bude tančit všude
  • 1954
    Přicházejí z tmy

    Přicházejí z tmy (1954)

    Přicházejí z tmy

    01954HD

    In a South Bohemian village in 1951, the local rich organize acts of sabotage and try to stop the establishment of an agricultural cooperative with threatening letters and arson. A kulak's son even secretly returns from the West to terrorize the vill...

    Přicházejí z tmy
  • 1954
    Frona

    Frona (1954)

    Frona

    51954HD

    Frona Filípková, out of a desire for a better life, married Floriš Zobač on the land. However, the ownership of the land has affected both her husband and her father-in-law, who, out of hatred, intrigue against the emerging agricultural cooperative a...

    Frona
  • 1954
    The Best Man of All

    The Best Man of All (1954)

    The Best Man of All

    71954HD

    A Czech satirical comedy set around 1900. The inhabitants of the small town of Pětice are excited by a mysterious package that is to be delivered to the best person in the village. Of course, all members of the town council claim the title of best pe...

    The Best Man of All
  • 1952
    Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy

    Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy (1952)

    Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy

    6.61952HD

    Four short stories by the greatest Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek. "Soup for Poor Children" tells the story of how Prince Robert himself cooked soup for poor children, "Meeting of the Municipal Council in Mejdlovary" is the history of filling the posi...

    Hasek’s Tales from the Old Monarchy
  • 1953
    Anna the Proletarian

    Anna the Proletarian (1953)

    Anna the Proletarian

    21953HD

    The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I....

    Anna the Proletarian
  • 1954
    Comedians

    Comedians (1954)

    Comedians

    01954HD

    The story of a traveling comedy family that ends up in court, where young Fricek is charged with attempted murder because he protected his sister Olga from a rapist....

    Comedians
  • 1955
    Hudba z Marsu

    Hudba z Marsu (1955)

    Hudba z Marsu

    5.91955HD

    The employees of the furniture company MARS welcome a rare visitor with hired music. Their boast that they would put together an orchestra is taken seriously, so they receive a small gift - musical instruments for thirty musicians....

    Hudba z Marsu
  • 1953
    The Secret of Blood

    The Secret of Blood (1953)

    The Secret of Blood

    61953HD

    A biographical film about a Czech doctor, Dr. Jánský. The athletically inclined medic Jánský successfully completes his studies. He wants to become a surgeon, but finds himself in Professor Kuffner's psychiatric clinic, where, together with his colle...

    The Secret of Blood
  • 1955
    Punta and the Four-Leaf Clover

    Punta and the Four-Leaf Clover (1955)

    Punta and the Four-Leaf Clover

    51955HD

    A film about a boy who is protective of a runaway dog and the dog, who is protective of the boy....

    Punta and the Four-Leaf Clover