Jaroslav Mareš Movies

The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his...

The mischievous princess Anka annoys her father and her surroundings with her original tricks. So as punishment, the devil Haramáš...

An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a...

Two brothers live with their mother in an old house on the outskirts of town. They both work in a printing house. Elder Bóža is a quiet,...

Getting into the popular music spotlight is not easy, as even an enthusiastic amateur, an overconfident young man whose singing career soon fails,...

Drama set on an isolated farm on the Czech-Polish border immediately after the end of WWII.

Karel Kubat, the successful director of the Globus printing house, learns on his fiftieth birthday that he has a serious heart condition. The bad...

In the winter of 1944, chief of surgery at a small-town Czech hospital is suspected of Nazi collaboration by his community.

Prague in the 1930s. A young, pretty girl gets on a crowded tram. She immediately catches the attention of a young man who not only appreciates the...

Propaganda document of the communist regime about the so-called Číhošť miracle.

A hardworking employee at a printing plant takes on all sorts of roles until he nearly collapses under their weight. He learns that those who try to...

The Haszler songs of Prague, so popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, have not aged. They are still sung in pubs and on...

When a comet passes the Earth at close range, it pulls a small part of North Africa with it. Carried along are a bunch of people, among them...

The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The...

A sometimes humorous, sometimes more serious look at the hustle and bustle of a house in Lesser Town with a diverse array of tenants living there,...

Chronicle of frontier division Czech police (SNB) in the years 1946 - 1949.

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...