Jana Švandová Movies

Jazz musician and trumpeter Beno is originally Slovak, but has been living in Prague for a long time. As a true bohemian, he does not recognize any...

A young poet and dreamer, poor as a church mouse, discovers that he is to inherit a vast fortune from his very wealthy, dying uncle. However, there...

Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original...

A directors autobiography about his debut during the rise of socialism.

The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town.

Who is this confident man who, with unusual elegance and surprising professionalism, began working at the reception desks of the highest government...

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

This international co-production, shot at Barrandov Studios with international cast including Czech actors is an attempt to create a sci-fi fantasy...

TV play adapted from humorous novel by Kingsley Amis (1954).

The problematic protagonist is the head designer of a housing association who wants to make a profit at any cost. His unwitting opponent is a bar...

Alienation between the closest relatives is always a serious disorder of family judgment. Father and son not only do not see each other, but one does...

The film from 1976, a film that is exemplary in its devotion to the canons of normalised cinema, is the work of director Stanislav Strnad. He brought...

The town is waking up. The bus driver Josef Král is saying goodbye to his wife Vera who is in a state of advanced pregnancy. At the rolling...

Sunday in September 1977, a celebration of the Miners Day. The old Hepnar is sitting at the cemetery and is recalling events from ten years ago. That...

An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything to get a job he thinks will launch him into a better career.

The lavish musical brings to life the legendary Egyptian queen through an original score by Michal David and evocative book and lyrics by Zdeněk...

The years of Mánes' studies at art schools and on the period when the mature and distinctive artist was already promoting his concept of a new...