J. O. Martin Movies

Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is...

Four short stories by the greatest Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek. "Soup for Poor Children" tells the story of how Prince Robert himself cooked...

An old peasant from Chodský, Záhor, claims to the young Podestát that he returned three hundred gold pieces to his father before...

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

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

A biographical film about the famous Czech painter Mikoláš Aleš, portrayed as part of the vanguard of the working class and a...

The family of the worker Kučera lives happily. His daughter Anežka, engaged to technical draftsman Adolf, is a seamstress. His son...

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,...

The catastrophically dry weather of 1947 causes immense problems in the countryside. In the small village Klícov, only farmers Hánek...

A socialist drama from the time of the February coup. The owner of the brickyard will use several workers before February in order to subvert worker...

The plump, punctual and slightly despotic Mr. Tříška worked as a housing officer, which completely damaged his psychological...

The second part of the revolutionary Hussite trilogy takes place in the years 1419-1420.

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.

Innovator Ludvík Zach is in love with his technical data and improvement proposals and does not believe that women could be able to understand...

Human bravery can take many forms, just as ideas about it can. Small-town public opinion begins to despise a postal clerk because he gave cash to...

A biographical film about a Czech mechanic and designer who was the first in the Czech lands to construct a steam car.