Ladislav Potměšil Movies

A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on...

Leo Popper is a happy family man living in rural Bohemia in the years preceding the Nazi invasion. Out of economic necessity he moves with his family...

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public...

An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into...

Criminal comedy, a first movie from the "Chief" series.

Czechoslovakian Zbynek Brynych directs this psychological drama set in World War II Terezin ghetto. A dark, visual portrayal of the trials and...

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 story of a practical education environment without superficiality, clichés and affectations. The film is based on a real basis and shows...

In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a doctor-turned-warehouse employee reluctantly agrees to treat a gravely wounded political fugitive, putting himself...

Inspired by two fairy tales by Jan Drda, this film tells the story of young Matěj, who enjoys a good riddle. When he is chased off by a farmer...

In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic...

It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác...