Otakar Brousek Movies

A document on a new method of treating scarlet fever with penicillin.

A crime story set in the second half of the 19th century. Krasl, a Prague schoolteacher, is searching for a statue of the Golden Buddha, which is...

The Czech film Svítalo All Night was made to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Army and is...

Young knight John travels the world in search of fame and fortune, but also to help others and prove himself. However, things go dire fast and he...

A group of children are investigating a chain of mysterious events during the seventies.

A painter, whose art and views diverge considerably from the conventional society of a small American town, is suspected of murdering his wife. When...

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot),...

The plot of the film follows a bus ride on the Prague - Karlovy Vary route and the actions of the people on it. A diverse group of people with...

In Vražda v hotelu Excelsior, the interwar period homicide detective squad from Prague investigates the murder of a wealthy woman, Mrs...

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...

The main character of the story is Professor Trojan, the head of a Prague clinic, who is not experiencing the happiest of times. His cat has been...

A love story of a couple of mature people of completely different characters, who lived and worked side by side for years only as colleagues, but...

France, mid-19th century. Church bells ring out in alarm; a monastery is on fire. In the ensuing chaos, a passing rider catches sight of a girl in a...

A man and a woman from a different planet come to the Earth to get a cure for a disease that is apparently threatening to eradicate their...