Václav Kotva Movies

Young script-writer Frantisek (Petr Cepek) is hired to write a film script based on the successful novel Looking Back. He meets with the novel's...

In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building...

The shoemaker, Lájošek Cína, is a naive good-for-nothing with his heart on his sleeve, who, as the day grows long, never leaves...

A professional card player and swindler, Icharev, arrives in a small town with a plan to rip off some local jackdaw if possible. However, a trio of...

In May 1945, a broken violinist lies drunk by a creek, haunted by memories of his life before and during WWII. Once the celebrated first violin in...

In the fifites the 10 year old boy Honza lives with his single mother in Prague. The mother is a dedicated communist in the beginning but she changes...

The story of Saint Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia, based on Josef Kajetán Tyl's stage play "Bloody Baptism".

Greek mythology has always inspired creators of various artistic genres. No wonder, for Greek myths offer countless dramatic tales of strength,...

The story of father and son detectives takes place mostly in the dignified surroundings of a concert hall. Who prepared the assassination, timed...

In the Prague Old Town and the adjoining streets there is always plenty of life. Housewives shop, beggars arouse sympathy, the Salvation Army tries...

The theatre director encounters the disinterest and irresponsibility of the acting troupe, whose members are scheming and looking for side income....

King Černomysl has four daughters and one son, who is just celebrating his 17th birthday. The king intends to find him a bride, but the prince...

The former reputed lover and bon vivant Petr Vok from Rožmberk was widowed at the age of sixty-three. The loss of his much younger wife is hard...

The true story of a little boy who was taken from his grandmother's care during the war by a court decision at the request of his father and his...

The honest and a bit naive director of a variety agency, Jožin Petránek, sits on the qualification committee that judges entertainers and...

How it will end? Let's just tell you that on one side of the mountain, the stream that had run before it dries up, and on the other side of the...

Although the title would suggest it, this film has nothing to do with fairy tales at all: it takes place in the North Moravian border region just...