Karel Steklý Movies

One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats...

A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody.

The movie describes proletarian life in the Czech Lands after World War I.

Two young returnees from the First World War face a difficult future because they cannot find work. One eventually finds a job as an electrician, the...

Summer 1968: The crisis is reaching its peak. The director of the Prague taxi service, Mudroch, rejects the drivers' absurd demands for a pay...

The generally respected director of a small-town savings bank, Hlavsa, commits embezzlement because of his wasteful and spoiled wife, and when the...

A comedy about the love of the Czech nobleman Záviš of Falkenštejn for the Hungarian princess Kunhuta, who later married...

A famous writer seeks the favor of a charming aspiring artist. However, Jarmila intends to dedicate her life to art, and men should have no other...

The Pioneers are leaving for a holiday camp for young astronomers. And it's going to be an interesting stay, as a large meteorite was observed...

A small Czech town in the 1860s. The townspeople once made a fortune from the proceeds of gold mines that are now flooded. However, they do not want...

The main hero of the story is the editor Viktor Bláha, who likes to invent crazy mystifications, during which he has a good time at the...

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...

Kaspar Len returns home after three years in the army. He vainly searches for the mason Kryštof’s family where he had lived before he...

At St. Anthony's is a 1933 Czechoslovak film operetta directed by Svatopluk Innemann. The Moravian country comedy, also known as At St. Anthony's,...

Dramatic fates of people hidden behind a theatrical mask.

Czech nobleman Petr Vok of Rozmberk (Milos Kopecký) is no longer so young, but his amatory adventures continue to arouse the envy of men and...